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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Lets Pray to Zeus
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 15:41:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 15:41:20 1984
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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
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