The gods in the greek pantheon were abusive and vengeful at best and serial rapists and mass murderers at worst. So why were they worshiped in the first place?

by JuamJoestar

Yes, i know values in that time were different. Still, i don't think going around raping married women and priestess and murdering people for being at the wrong place at the wrong time was seen as much better as we see it today. Apart from maybe Hades, every single God is responsible for the suffering of many innocent people. So why? Why were they worshiped in spite of this?

KiwiHellenist

There are several ways of approaching this question, so it may be that someone will want to give a new kind of answer; in the meantime, answers to similar questions have been posted before here, by /u/White___Velvet, and here, by myself.