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Question

my last question why did christians take over pagan holidays had a lot of good answers but it sounds to me like takeing over pegan days was the only way to convert them is this wrong? i think so

Answer 1

By assimilating pagan beliefs, Christianity became part pagan, and acknowledged their beliefs to be correct. Yes it is wrong when an oppressive regime persecutes others (pagans) for their beliefs.

Answer 2

That happened nearly 1700 years ago. It was not the best idea they had.

The truth is they do not actually know when Jesus really was born. The best guess I have heard was April of 0008 ad. They said that this certain star would have been extra bright and would have moved and stopped like that. Or appear to anyway.
This information came from a special they had on the Discovery Channel last Christmas time.

Scientist are funny. They try to discredit things. This star for example, they said wasn't a special stellar event created by God. That star was there exactly when it was supposed to be. It makes me want to say duh! A star was exactly where it was supposed to be because that is the way God created it.

The way I see it, God could have set the stars in motion at the beginning of time so THAT star would be EXACTLY where is was SUPPOSED to have been at the DIVINE moment. Or GOD could have created a NEW star, to proclaim the SAVIORS birth. I doesn't really matter in when it comes to salvation.

I am personally glad that Jesus' birth and reserection. Though it should not be called Easter. Because it does proclaim another idolitory god. But unfortunately that is the name we are stuck with. We can choose not to use the tree, bunny, or eggs. However that shouldn't stop us from celebrating Jesus.

Answer 3

You got the right answers. Almost every religious holiday is in direct refrence to a pagan holiday. And yes, alot of it was done to counter the pagan holidays, and also to give their religion a chance to worship. Wrong, maybe, but pagans countered All Saints day with Halloween, so to each his own.

Answer 4

I don't remember them taking any holidays over.

Christmas? No. Why? To celebrate His birth? No. Jesus was not born on Dec 25.

When you do the research, John The Baptist, was Jesus' cousin. Jesus was "conceived", 6 months after John The Baptist. Jesus was conceived Dec 25Th and when you do the time of birth, He was born in Sept, around, the 27-29th.

So. See, Christians never took over pagan. Anyone who celebrates His birth Dec 25th is about 3 months too late.

Have a good week.

Answer 5

This is why there are many christian sects , because christians were ready to compromise every thing starting from their holidays to the most radical belief in their religion to spread their message!! What we have these days is fragments mixed with all sorts of impurities from pagans and others , it reached the point to be something totally different from the original message of God!!!!
God warns us from compromising in religion, it is either take it all or leave it all creed!!
"And if the truth had been in accordance with their desires, verily, the heavens and the earth, and whosoever is therein would have been corrupted! Nay, We have brought them their reminder, but they turn away from their reminder." (23:71) Qora'an

Answer 6

every day of the year was a holiday to some pagan or other. Just like to day there are more days set aside to worshi, honor, comemerate something or other that every day is used several times over... that is a pointless example... the ones who want to cause an argument can find some thing to argue about no matter what day is what...

Answer 7

no, keep in mind christians used to be widely persecuted. So when christianity became the state religion of rome, people were obviously unhappy. The church began to adapt itself, changing holidays, such as jesus's birth from summer to coincide with the roman festival of saturnalia. they even took the name of the german goddess of the underworld, Hel, and used her name for a mythical place used to frighten the pagans into converting.

Answer 8

You are correct.

It has been observed many times that when an invading culture and religion take over new lands they absorb the religious traditions of the natives to quickly homogonize the empire. As such, christianity has adopted hundreds of pagan traditions to more quickly exert control over native peoples through religion.

Answer 9

I'm not exactly certain what you're trying to say because there's a gross lack of punctuation in that paragraph. But I'll try to answer anyway.

The christians knew that if they tried to press their beliefs on another group and ask them to adhere to ONLY those beliefs, chances are people would revolt. But if they were allowed to keep some of their holidays and rituals, assimilation would be a lot easier on both sides.

Answer 10

I dont think christians now days are christians because they believe in pagan holidays.