Stroma Stromilos ☁️

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imaginate.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

As an avid Zeus devotee, I find it disheartening that this is your experience with other Zeus devotees (along with Posiden and Hades devotees) because that's not why I worship him in the slightest. I love father Zeus because of his associations with justice. I've always felt connected to the clouds and overcast weather. I've always been inclined to be as hospitable as possible, just as Lord Zeus is. I hope you know that we're not all like this--my patron deity is Lord Zeus but I also worship Lady Artemis and Lord Hermes.

None of the gods are their mythos--no I don't believe Lady Persephone is helpless because of her myth wherein she was kidnapped by Lord Hades. Nor do I believe that Lady Athena is petty and cruel because she transformed Medusa into a gorgon for things that weren't even a fault of hers (which I know is only one interpretation of that myth).

Yet I don't believe my choice of patron deity is unfortunate as you say either--if anything I find it awful that people hate deities because of the mythos--and I almost never see other Zeus devotees. And I figure the reason why is the mythos itself! There are so few devotees of Zeus and Posiden that I find--people would rather worship the radiant Aphrodite and the intelligent Athena than the serial rxpists in the mythos. But the gods just aren't that. They were expressions of what was acceptable in ancient Greek society because the ancient Greek gods represented what was true rather than what was good.