Encouragement and Poetry and Greeks, oh my!

[eldrfire]

I see that some of you excellent ladies are publishing original work on LJ. I have not had time to read it all but so I wanted to show my encouragement here, since I'm not sure when I'll have time to read and leave comments on your exciting works!!!

GO GO GO YOU ARE ROCKING MANIACS YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!

On another note, my mom has just introduced me

Comments

[edellin]

I just came back here to "steal" the poem and post it to GreatPoets community and I reread your whole entry and I just wanted to add something I didn't write in my previous comment. Most of the beliefs of Christianity are based on Ancient Greek Philosophy and other ancient religions of Europe. My religion teacher of last year, said that Isis from Egypt is a figure that is very close to The Virgin Mary.

I am not saying that it's a copy of the old religions and the beliefs of ancient Greek Philosophers but isn't it a little ironic that one of the strongest religions in Europe and I guess in the West world generally is based on stuff agnostics believed. Because I know for sure that the philosophers like the Protagor, Plato, Socrates, Aristotele were agnostics

[eldrfire]

I don't think it's that ironic, considering that the vast majority of people who believed in the Greek religion were not agnostic philosophers. *shrug*

Another poem by Swinburne that might interest you if you haven't read it is "Hymn to Proserpine" which offers a more direct contrast between the Virgin Mary and Persephone.

[edellin]

I didn't mean it like that. I know that about Ancient Greek philosophers. Generally the ancient Greek religion was very loose... but the fact that people who believed that they do not know of God's true nature and were against organized religion, their ideas and writings were the base of a religion that has so many rules and in the past has done so many things to show how right its belief are.. I always found that ironic.. not that Ancient Greek Philosophers were agnostics but the fact that Christianity is based on agnostic's ideas.

[eldrfire]

I knew what you meant. I just didn't find it that ironic because the religion that the Greek philosophers was writing about was mostly believed by people who weren't agnostic, and to say that Christianity was based on the agnostics' ideas rather than the believers who vastly outweighed them didn't seem to me to be an accurate statement.

The comparison between the two religions came up in another poem I was reading for my Brit Lit class. It was called "The World is Too Much With Us" by Wordsworth. I would recommend that one to you too! I bet you would find it interesting if you haven't read it. :)