Outside Reading- Evan Shively

Recently while reading Bertrand Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" I read through a section on different Pre-Greek and Greek Orphic religions. These Orphic religious people where incredibly reliant on the nature surrounding them. Their religion centered around this religion leading to the rise of fertility gods and goddesses. Furthermore, this reliance meant that all their religious ritual centered around the nature around them. Worshipers of Bacchus had different rituals one which entailed the ripping up of a dead animal. While I can't support a ritual as extreme as ripping up an animal I think its sad how little focus today's religion or for that matter today's society has for nature. We have really lost touch with a connection are religious ancestors held so near.