{"id":185,"date":"2004-05-11T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2004-05-11T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T15:20:00","slug":"185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greek Pagans battle for their rites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Followers of traditional Hellenic religion are becoming more visible, notes <em>The Independent<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/story.jsp?story=519218\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Georgios, a distinguished lawyer with a turquoise ribbon in his hair to signify the circle of life, cannot see where the credibility problem lies. &#8220;The ancient Greeks invented logic, science, medicine and philosophy and built the Parthenon,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Are you telling me they didn&#8217;t know what they were doing when it came to religion?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No doubt the upcoming Olympic Games and, possibly, the meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wcer2004.ysee.gr\/\">World Council of Ethnic Religons<\/a> upcoming in June have something to do with this move for religious freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Pagans battle for their rites Followers of traditional Hellenic religion are becoming more visible, notes The Independent in this story. Georgios, a distinguished lawyer with a turquoise ribbon in his hair to signify the circle of life, cannot see where the credibility problem lies. &#8220;The ancient Greeks invented logic, science, medicine and philosophy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-185","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":582,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=582","url_meta":{"origin":185,"position":0},"title":"Spotlight on Pagan StudiesThe field\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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