What are some of the challenges Hellenes face as a minority religion?
First and foremost, we face simple ignorance on the part of our fellow citizens. We are a small and admittedly obscure religion, and most people have understandably never heard of us. Some confuse us with Greek Orthodox Christians; others with Wiccans. A few extremists persist in believing that we, like all non-Christians, must be devil-worshippers. Others incorrectly assume we are something like the SCA, and therefore see Hellenismos as a hobby, not a religion. Scientific-materialists shake their heads over the fact that modern people could believe in, let alone worship, the Greek gods (or any other gods, for that matter). But perhaps the greatest challenges are not those we face from the outside. Like the members of other religious minorities, we must work hard to maintain our practices in an often-indifferent and sometimes hostile society. We wrestle with how to pass on our traditions to our children when the media, schools, and their peers promote other religions or worse, secular
