"Were our polytheist ancestors brilliant on every point except religion? No, they were just brilliant all the way around. They knew the real and living Gods as clearly as they knew so many other essential things about this world, and their Gods are still with us, today. Gods don't have to worry about death like mortals do- so we mortals taking a 1700 year hiatus in our devotions to them means little. The Gods are ready to pick up where we left off, thanks to our cultural and religious divergence; immortal beings have immortal patience. The real question is: how can we become ready?

The Friends of the Gods want to go back to the roots- which in a way, makes us the ultimate "radicals"; but instead of getting radical about "the one truth" that we feel everyone needs to accept or die, we're getting radical about the idea that the unseen world, like this world of everyday life, is a world of mind-blowing diversity, with room for people to believe in countless different ways, and still be good, virtuous people. What truly stands in the way of the re-emergence of a polysphere of free thought, of multifaceted personal religious experience and a sober reconsideration of the nature of the divine? Only the insanity of fundamentalism and the calcified corpse-traditions of the monotheistic faiths, whose experiment in a "one world religion" has finally reached the final stage in its failure."


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