Well, I'm not Greek Orthodox, either, but I love the Greek Holy Week liturgies and the All Souls' (with 'cakes' made out of whole
grains and honey and herbs) and reading, say,
Stephanos of
Byzantium, and all the rest. To me, it's just Greek, though Greek
Christian rather than Greek pre-Christian (pagan is too derogatory, meaning rural). I love the idea of Semele and of
Dionysos born out of Zeus's thigh and almost all the rest. There are things that I just don't worry about, anyhow (at the level of Jesus' y chromosome). Paul is almost always right: You silly Corinthians, not in THOSE bodies in heaven! In re: widowers remarried.
When I say I love the liturgies, I mean I love, above all, their language, their theology. I don't have to believe it as if it were real. By real, I mean like
res, realia; see Aquinas.
Not to worry.
Pat L.
