i've been granted with a new perspective of how greeks go about their religion...

"---through a concrete gift that they gave, they expected a concrete return in the form of good weather for their crops; freedom from natural disasters; or success in war, athletic competition, or even love. This view reflected the purely external nature of the Greek's relation with his gods and the sanctity of his mind from teh prying eyes of the gods. Zues could watch him act, but he could not watch him think. Since the Greek felt no spiritual contact with this gods, he had no sense of sin, an abstract and spiritual concept. Instead he had a severe notion of crime, which is a concrete adn external act. Hence the Greek lacked the Christian conception of conscience, which is founded upon a sense of sin." ~ an excerpt from my english book which is The DEVELOPMENT of WESTERN THOUGHT Vol. 1; compiled and edited by the committee on the humanities...

this didnt exactly surprise me... but... the impact of such a way of thinking and living was unexpected...

so when one doesnt feel connected to his or her god... then that person has no conscience... but he does things by the book...

is this what is needed now by everyone?

i wonder...

is this way of thinking beneficiary?