Any ideas why the Christian church did not change the days of the week?

Question

away from their Viking and pagan traditions roots

It is strange that Thor "Thursday", freya "Friday" etc., have stuck when given the conflicts 'false gods' bring

Any ideas?

Answer 1

By Frieea and Fricca .. what the fric are you talking about ?... Vic spak angles , herr duetsch boy ... Why that's almost like suggesting that the more latinate Wednesday "Martes" is a day dedicated to Mars or Ares or something like that... makes me long for a Saturnalia with twelve fair damsels to my coven .. As Charles Manson told Susan Atkinson, as he dropped her, Tex, and the other girls off ... "do something witchy"

PS- I eat my juevos on jueves .. By Jove, you may be on to something there!

Answer 2

The Roman Catholic Christian church is so full of paganism that of course this would be let go unchallenged. The pagan holidays of Christmas and Easter did too. The calendar was changed a few times though, and it doesn't really make sense, so they may have already shifted the days of the week so that they aren't on the days that they were originally on. On the calendar, Octo means 8, but October is the 11th month. Sept means 7, but September is actually the 10th month. So with changes like this, it is quite possible that the days of the week were in fact changed already too to something equally as confusing.



Re: shedoblyde: Lucifer was the most beautiful angel in heaven, and wanted to be God. That is why he was cast down, and now his name is satan, meaning adversary.

Answer 3

The Christians did not change most of what was rooted in paganism- when Constantine and others converted to Chrisitanity (a move that was likely rooted in political favor and power rather than a true relationship with the Lord)
he allowed the people to keep their pagan traditions - they just got renamed. The worship of Mary comes from the pagan traditions of having a female deity, Christmas and Easter are both pagan holidays that maintain much of the pagan rituals. Little of what the modern Christian practices today reflects much of the practices of the early church or what Jesus himself celebrated.
Some of htis is practiced ourt of ignorance and some as a defiant attempt to seperate themselves from the Jewish / Hebrew customs that we are supposed to be grafted into in the first place.

Answer 4

I am not aware of any universally "Christian" way of naming the days of the week. The Christians in China don't call their weekdays after Norse Gods. There are 7 days in the Hebrew week, and their names are numbers, in the same way the first 7 days in Genesis' Creation week are numbered. The very earliest Christians, who were Jews, named the days of the week the same way. The Bible talks about the Resurrection happening on "the first day of the week."

In those instances in which CHRIST is actually brought into a culture along with Christianity, changing hearts is more important than changing names. It's very interesting that so many diverse cultures DO have weeks with seven days, though, isn't it?

Answer 5

Probably to deeply imbeded in tradition:

Sunday: Sunday
Monday: Moonday
Tuesday: Tuor's Day
Wednesday: Woden(Odin)'s DAy
Thursday: Thor's Day
Friday: Frida(Freya)'s Day
Saturday: Saturn's Day

Answer 6

As christains we are in the world but not of the world.We have a good conscience and are at peace with are creator . To let this stuff trouble us would only take away from what God gives to us , Peace.This peace He leaves with us isn't as the world has to give , but remains strong and untouched by this world.It would be so easy to let ourselves get caught up in this foolishness . But for what ?This is not where I want to be anyway . God people are just visiting this place no matter what day it might be . Where just looking for the day.

Answer 7

Moon Day (Monday) also has pagan roots, as do Thor's Day (Thursday), a Saturn's Day (Saturday). Strange indeed that the Catholic Church let this be when they were so bend on getting rid of paganism - that's why Lucifer (a Roman god of light) became Satan's name, why Poseidon's trident became Satan's pitchfork, and the Greek god Pan's horns and hooves also became Satan's.

Answer 8

If this tradition has Viking roots, every day would be Sunday(although this week they play on Monday).

Answer 9

not sure why not but we are stuck with them.. sadly, a lot of paganism is in chirstianity: christmas, easter, etc. look it up my be surprised.

publish the results here so we can see too, okay.

Answer 10

Too lazy. Also wanted to incorporate the old beliefs and subsume them within the new. Virgin Mary substitutes for Diana. The Devil is Odin etc. etc.