For those of you who are not aware, Dodekatheism, or Hellenimos, is the faith built around worship of the Olympian gods, which I am an adherent of us. It's not to common, so I don't expect much here, but I was wondering what your opinion of it is?
I consider polytheism in general to be more reasonable than monotheism on numerous grounds, such as the problem of evil: although I consider all the gods to be beyond good and evil, some are destructive, such as Ares, and some are caregiving, such as Demeter. I also believe that the creation of the universe through chaos (not chaos in the English usage, but in the Greek) is more reasonable than most ideas of creation.
Now, there's a significant amount of confusion in regard to our myths, which some who are not in the know think we take literally. It's true we affirm the existence of the gods, but not in an anthropomorphic sense. Our myths were never considered the Word of God or whatever, and it was never considered blasphemy to doubt them, write different versions, or discard them altogether. They aren't a guide to theology anymore than Aesop's fables are a guide to zoology.
