So this is an opinion piece as I do like to do pieces like this. Why do Hellenists take Percy Jackson so seriously? It started as a story for Rick Riordan to tell his son and then it turned into a book, then a movie. Two movies have been made, "The Lightening Thief" and "The Sea of Monsters." The actor that plays Percy said that the third movie wouldn't be made, but later on we were told that it would be made since the second one did so well.
A couple of years ago, when Tim had his forum, the subject of Percy Jackson came up. People responded so badly to it that it made me wonder why we even consider this to be a problem. The movie, along with the book, is very pagan. It shows pagan gods, it shows their children, the monsters, and so on. It gives us a understanding of how a modern writer views the gods. They no longer have temples, yet people still remember them.
My personal opinion is that we really need to stop worrying about how others see the gods and look at how we see the gods. They are more than just a blockbuster movie or a best selling book series, they are the gods that have chosen us, or we have chosen them. We honor them daily, we say our prayers to them, we even pray to them when we are in trouble. They are screamed to in places where the gods were never at, they give us comfort, and we even claim that they have come to our aid.
Percy Jackson is a story! A story that has brought many readers back to the world of the ancient myths and allowed them to understand it in a way that's wonderful and beautiful. We should always remember that.
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