How similar is Roman catholic worship to Ancient Romes?

Question

It occured to me when i saw them put coins on the eyes of the dead pope (symbolism that was used by Ancient Roman and Greeks when they worshipped "Pagen" gods) plus the way Catholics have statues of patron saints with individual spheres of interest, that they seem to worship/ pray to in a similar way Romans would pray to inividual gods. I am wondering if the religions kind of merged. Like sometimes happens in corperate mergers alot of the work practices of one company are implimented by but the stronger brand gets the company name.

Answer 1

Well mass isn't in Latin anymore. That might be one big difference. The coins are put on the eyes as payment to pay the ferry man of the river Styx in Greek mythology. So in essence I guess some of these things just kinda stuck. But I don't see this as any form of worship. Just like the saints. You pray to them for help or for a miracle but by no means do you worship them. There is only one God. But this is a good question cause I'm catholic and I never really thought about it like that. So this might be like a can of worms for me. I'm gonna have to do some research now Thanx

Answer 2

Any similarities to ancient or even recent pagan customs is due more to the cultural aspects of various countries than anything else.

A universal world wide church has lots more to deal with than does a single small congregation.

All the stuff Protestants made up about pagan practices in the church is simply their rationale for breaking away from God's one, true church.

If you want to know the truth, study the authentic Catholic faith. It's the most well documented, throroughly explained religion the earth has ever known.

There's no secrets. No pagan stuff. Just God's truth.

Answer 3

Roman Catholic Liturgy and the Mass are nothing like the pagan worship of false gods in Ancient Rome. A true and thorough study of Roman Greco History and that of Church History will bear this out.

Answer 4

Exactly what happened there. As they wanted to grow and get more people in they adopted the practices of those other beliefs in order to get them to come over and join up with them, thus a lot of the pagan ideas they practice to this day such as the sunday worship, the venerable day of the sun. it was not adopted till around 321 AD when Constantine was emperor of Rome and wanted to get the pagans in so they finally dropped God's Holy Sabbath day, the seventh day, and replaced it with the first day of the week, Sunday. If you read their writings, they plainly state it is their doing and most all the protestant churches follow them rather than the bible.

Answer 5

Yes, a lot of original Christian traditions were adopted and adapted from pagan rituals: case in point: most of our holidays. Easter and Christmas...the timing of these do not relate to the true timing of the death and birth of Christ, but coincide with ancient pagan celebrations. Halloween and All Saints Eve is the other harvest time Pagan festival. They were in the business of converting, and what better way to convert than to give them the festivals that they love to celebrate with a Christian "bent".

Answer 6

yes the roman catholic church is baptized paganism. it came from integrating the symbols of pagan worship into Christianity. but it goes even deeper than this. if you would like more info, just mail me.

Answer 7

the calender, holidays(christmas, easter, etc.) traditions, including the pope, and the clergy class, all originate in paganism.
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Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

well in roman times you did't have to worry about some priest screwing your kid.

Answer 10

well noy so much im jewish