Were the Gods of Ancient Greece Ever Real?

Would it Surprise you to know that all religions have a common beginning? All the religions on earth can be traced back to one point in history, Yes even those of the Abraham religions. History began in Sumer, and so did religion. All the Gods, Goddesses and even the patriarchs of the bible are all the same with just different names,

I would love to see what FreeThinkingAgent would have to say about this topic, I believe the old astronomers had observed a story written in the sky and they transferred their heavenly beliefs creating cities on Earth to follow their paths the path that their god's walked. The reality is that the story was written in the stars and at some point they started employing undue influence upon those that would be led from one city to the next. Eventually it became important to get back to one truth of one GOD beginning with one family, the flaw was there were other families. As the story goes there would be a star that stands bright to shine for all to see, the blessing would be that each descendant would be a shining star is your name written in heaven? How many stars are in the milky way? How many in Andromeda? How many stars are there in our universe?

I'm a little late responding to this one, but that's partially because I emailed a Hellenic Reconstructionist friend while thinking about my response. It's interesting to me that you ask if anyone ever seriously believe in gods that I still know people who believe in. Granted, saying there is an unbroken line of any preChristian belief can often be hard, because mass conversions of pretty much entire countries did happen, usually under high social and political pressure. Christianity swept the world, basically. At different points in history, it became almost necessary to become Christian to continue life... because the pressure of kings and emperors who converted and then declared their realms would therefore also be Christian was almost impossible to stand against. So, to the modern eye, much of the world is Christian. However, that doesn't mean that any religion before Christianity had no value or was abandoned because Christianity was 'easier' or 'better'. If that were the case, there wouldn't be people in the modern day who are re-embracing the beliefs of their ancestors. I think there have been strong believers in every religion. The friend I contacted on this matter said 'I feel just as strongly about my gods as my Christian friends do about theirs'. That's pretty much the same thing I would have said about the Celtic gods, myself; I view them as friends, family members, confidantes, loved ones, etc. I'm sure the Ancient Greeks felt the same way. Not only that, but since ancient Greek beliefs also included household deities, local deities, and such, I would think it would be considered a really intimate and personal relationship, when you get down to that level, as opposed to the popular Greek gods and goddesses in the mythology.

The people of ancient Greece belived in many gods and goddesses.After they embraced Christianity they stoped worshiping their ancient gods and goddesses.Many gods and goddesses of Hindu religion are similar to gods and goddesses of ancient Greece.I think the origin of these gods are from Aryan culture.

Greeks definitely considered their Gods and goddesses seriously. Hwever, no pagan is fanatic about their gods as those of the Abrahamic religions the reeason for which is the Abrahamic religion considers their God as the only true God and all other gods as false. But Pagans do not consider other people's gods as false. That is why they are non-fanatic. The reason why the greeks stopped worshipping their gods is christianity. Christianity spread through force in many of the countries of Europe, Greece included. They even destroyed the Pagan temples and burnt their books. Not only greeks, but many other pagan religions stopped worshipping their Gods for fear of christianity.

They were very real to those that believed in them Faith in any deity cannot be proven or disproven who are we to say that they werent real?

This is an interesting discussion. It is a strange thing that occured. In this modern day, any reference to ancient Greek gods and godesses (and demi-gods, among other things) instantly puts the idea into ones mind that these are all "mythological" beings (and hence, myths). When you consider the history, it seems like the Greeks followed their gods more than people follow a person like Jesus, Mohammed, Allah, and Yahweh. They even built huge temples without modern technology. Some gods they feared, some they loved, all they respected in one way or another. Reading classic Greek literature can also open ones eyes to see how an actual Greek person saw their own world (namely, Homer's Illiad and Odyssey). I mean, so much of life's goodness (and badness) was in the hands of the gods; and the Greeks just took whatever was given to them. I think in this modern day, people have difficulty accepting the idea of multiple gods (...except Wiccans, I suppose). In a lot of ways, though, the Greek system of gods makes a lot more sense than just one being ruling and being the cause and effect of everything. I like the idea of these gods being much more like people (with god powers). To have Zeus fighting some other being and causing some ripple effect in the physical world is very interesting, in the least. As far as answering your questions, I do think they were serious about it. There is no evidence historically to prove otherwise (that I am aware of). I am sure the Greeks were more passionate, actually. I can not really answer your last question though, because I have no real idea.