Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Lets Pray to Zeus Message-ID: <747@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 15:41:20 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.747 Posted: Tue Mar 6 15:41:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:48:08 EST References: <568@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 13 Yosi Hoshen says that Zeus is a nice guy and an appropriate god for our children to pray to? I would say that he is more than "a bit lusty". He was a sex fiend. Anything to get into a woman's bed (or, for a change, a boy's--see Ganymede). And his arguments with his wife! He was petty, vindictive, and given only to satisfying his own pleasure. Don't forget that he was also a parricide, which to the Greeks (and to a greater extent the Romans) was just about the worst thing that one could do. I don't think that he should be prayed to at all, by anyone. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2