The story is told that a young American couple decided to visit the land of their ancestors. All they knew was that their family was Greek-Catholic. So they booked a trip to – Greece.
Now Greece does offer a fine heritage. Classical Greek philosophy, art, literature and science, not to mention democracy, are fundamental to our Western civilization. True, our understanding of classical Greek culture is colored by our own presuppositions. There is always the danger of distorting it in the prism of a modern world view (see Robert Royal, “The God that Did Not Fail,” 2006, Chapter 1, esp. p. 8).