Greek worship of stars (2)

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Plato, Laws 887d-e:
… how is one to argue on behalf of the existence of the gods without passion? For we must be vexed and indignant with the men who have been, and now are, responsible for laying on us this burden of argument, through their disbelief in those stories which they used to hear … and their own parents they saw showing the utmost zeal on behalf of themselves and their children in addressing the gods in prayers and supplications, as though they most certainly existed; and at the rising and setting of the sun and moon they heard and saw the prostrations and devotions of all the Greeks and barbarians, under all conditions of adversity and prosperity, directed to these luminaries, not as though they were not gods beyond the shadow of a doubt - all this evidence is contemned by these people, and that for no sufficient reason, as everyone endowed with a grain of sense would affirm.

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Plato, Laws 887d-e

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Amar Annus

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