I am a Roman/Greco Pagan and here is a little bit about my beliefs.
Purpose:
The point of Roman/Greco Religion is to propitiate deities, spirits and ancestors through precise prayers and rituals. This secures the good will of the greater powers and binds them to family and State. The resulting harmony is called the Pax Deorum, the Peace of the Gods.
There will always been sin in this world because that is how humans are and no matter how much you try you can not be rid of it, my faith does not teach the riddance of sin because sin is natural and there fore will always be there and shall never leave the hearts and minds of humans.
Through strong morals and values one can be a good person and live a happy and conforting life even if they are sinful at times.
Christianity teaches that all who accept Jesus Christ as their savior will be free of sin and who will get into eternal paradise when they die. Through a strong and harmonious relationship with Jesus one can live a happy life and then die and go to a better place.
My religion teaches that the gods are universal and are everyone controling all aspects of time and fate, they can be extreamly cruel and extreamly compasionate just like the human mind, they are not good or evil but just their in existance always and forever. One must offer gifts and prayer to the gods for eternal peace and happyness on an altar and if they deny the gods this they shall be punished in some way or another. For the gods are everyone contructing all matters of life, they are the reason the Roman Empire rose and fell and they are the reason we think the way we do about things in life. They spawned the first thoughts of fire into the mind of man and were created by the Earth that came from the Cosmo that created all life.
Ichor as I like to call it (you can call it the holy spirit, mana or the force if you want) is the spritual substance that inhabits all life it the most important Elelement in all life and though it is not on the perotic table without it things would be dead and deary. Ichor is all around us ready to be manupilated or used against mortals it floats everyone and is in everything more then in other things. It is the eternal neverending soul and spirit of life and self.
My beliefs icoportate 12 major Olympian deities with forgien gods and 10 to 15 minors gods and hundreds of river, glades, forest and plain spirits that maintain life for the Earth. Ansestors may control happenings in the world the Ichor is one of the most infuenctial things in our daily lifes.
Each god rules over a certain aspect of life and controls what happens in that certain aspect of life. There are the Lars which watch over your property and our like your gaurdian spirits that are always with you.
Roman/Greco Paganism to sum it up is a contract between the gods and man loving at times and hateful at times, balanced and chaotic all that same time. It has no centeral book or prophet but it looks to re-esbablsih itself in the daily world as a vibrant and true religion of man.
-Zeke