This is a Nαός
You know what the saddest thing about this urge to blur the lines between religion and politics is? These people are so insecure in their convictions that they have to foist their views onto their Gods and Spirits before they can feel comfortable in articulating them.
This is an Ἀγορά.
I don’t need a Nymph to tell me it’s wrong to put filth in rivers. I don’t need a God to tell me it’s stupid to hate a woman for the color of her skin or because she has to sit down to piss. And I don’t need the Ancestors to open my eyes to the fact that a tiny number of obscenely wealthy people are running this country into the ground, pitting decent, hard-working folks against each other, and corrupting our media and political systems so that they can get away with unconscionable acts and amass even more wealth on the corpses of the oppressed both here and abroad.
This is a βουλή.
And if you do, you need to think long and hard about what that says of your moral character as well as the nature of your relationship with your Gods and Spirits. Mine suggest plenty of things to me, but they never bark orders at me. I am not a slave, a child, or an imbecile so why on earth would they need to?
This is a Πορνοβοσκεῖον.
By all means, go out into the streets and fight whatever righteous cause gets your blood pumping, especially if you think you’ve got a shot in hell of making a difference. But do it because you have reasoned that that is the correct course of action for one who holds your principles to take – and don’t you dare question the sincerity of another’s convictions or their devotion to their Gods simply because they have chosen to act differently from you. That kind of thing is turd-slurpingly disgusting when televangelists do it, and it don’t make it any better just because you happen to be wearing skinny jeans and combat boots.
This is a Σαννιον.
