"Paganism"; which faith would you follow?

[Big Jim P]

Which Pantheon of "Old Gods" would you follow?

I'd still be an atheist.

Ja, although technically I am not an atheist: I believe in all gods as fictional creations of man.

[Adab]

Assuming that there's absolutely no choice aside from the pagan faiths, I'd adopt the Hellenistic religion, simply because it's my favorite pagan faith - I just like it more than all the other faiths.

[Pope Joan]

For a great (I would say definitive) study of the roots of Greek religion, check out Walter Burkert.

http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Religion-Cl ... 0631156240

"A masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort ... nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php? ... 0674362819

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable survey for students and scholars, it will be welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system.

Burkert draws on archaeological discoveries, insights from other disciplines, and inscriptions in Linear B to reconstruct the practices and beliefs of the Minoan-Mycenaean age.