What is the difference between a religion and a mythology? What stops someone from saying they worship Greek gods if asked if they are religious?
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Religion is the entire practice, and mythology is the stories associated with it.
Take the Christian religion. You don’t have to be a Christian to read the stores of Noah, or Samson, or Jesus. Those stories would be the Christian ‘myths.’
Similarly, we know all about Loki and Thor, but have no idea of what the actual prayers and rituals were.
Nothing stops a person from saying the worship the Greek Gods. The question would be how authentic their rituals were.
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