If you would enslave a people, fist destroy their sense of values, then they shall destroy their own spirit, and soon fall at your feet.
Religion is the hearth of spirit.
When I look up at the sky I know some Great Being out there Created the Here, the Now, and Me. For we are ALL our Creator's Children, All Brothers and Sisters of the same Universe. The story of the birth of Athena , is not so much the birth of a Goddess, as the birth of a human centered democratic civilization. No longer did mankind worship animal-like gods and goddesses, or divine kings. We stood unashamed as Her children , growing in our wisdom and our ability in the dawn's light of Reason .