Conserative Morality wrote:Benuty wrote:In the European context, polytheism is pretty much gone regardless of whether some people liked to think it lived on "in spirit" until reconstructionists came along. The temples to Odin are silent, the Oracles of Apollo drowned in the wind, and the libations to the multitude of gods now forever dead.
Which has more to do with the Christian enthusiasm for playing Medieval thought police and putting infidels to the sword than the lack of appeal of paganism.
The Parthenon was turned into a church, then a mosque. The Ottomans decided to store explosive material in there.