Do you really believe that the pagans ripped off your holidays like christmas and easter? How can you believe such nonsense? christianity copied the pagans holidays, not the other way around.
Do you believe that pagans ripped off your holidays?
2006-10-01 19:29:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i am asking do you believe that the pagans or christians based their holidays on one or the other, i didn't say all christians think that pagans copied their holidays.
i just want to know how the christians that do think that come to that conclusion
2006-10-01 19:37:07 · update #1
search4truth,
i never said anything about worship on sunday
you need to read questions before answering
2006-10-01 19:40:11 · update #2
Easter IS a holiday with pagan roots
2006-10-01 19:41:58 · update #3
OK PEOPLE, BEFORE YOU SAY THAT I AM WRONG AND NEED TO RESEARCH, HOW ABOUT YOU DO THE RESEARCH AND PROVE ME WRONG? IF YOU CAN I WILL SHOW YOU MY SOURCES
2006-10-01 19:45:11 · update #4
http://www.heart7.net/date/holdef.html and http://www.cs.cuc.edu/~twhitset/writings/holidays.html
and http://www.overopinionated.com/holidayorigins.htm
i tried looking at your sites but i didn't find anything about the origin of the religions.
and i am not gonna take church propagnda as truth anyways
nice try though, do look at these websites that i listed
2006-10-01 20:06:50 · update #5
sorry i meant origin of the holidays, not origin of the religions
2006-10-01 20:11:38 · update #6
No I do not believe pagans ripped off Christian holidays. Actually it is the other way around. When Christians moved into nothern parts of Europe, they encountered established cultures with holidays. The Christians wanted their faith and its practices to be adopted by the pagans. So, the Christians would take a pagan holiday and add religious significance to it.
The only holiday not polluted with Christianity was Valentines Day, which was actually a Holiday in Rome before the advent of Christianity. So it did not suffer the fate of other holidays. It had not religious significance attached to it.
2006-10-01 19:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by fergal_lawler_iowa 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am an evangelical Christian. Other than Easter and Pentecost, Christian Holidays are by and large connected to ancient pagan holidays. this happened because people were used to celebrating at certain times of year, so it was much easier to put the Christian holiday at a date that was already acceptable rather than to adopt new and strange dates.
One of the most ironic examples of this is Halloween. Originally a pagan harvest festival, Christians replaced it with Halloween. No the idea of Halloween has become so offensive to some that some churches celebrate "harvest parties" on Halloween night instead! is that hilarious or what? Do you have any funny stories like this from your own life?
2006-10-02 02:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians didn't copy anything. The problem was that those holidays had pagan themes and the christians would celebrate those holidays as a cultural thing so the church just took those holidays and changed the themes so they now had christian themes and the christians, if they celebrated the so-called holiday was at least not participating in a pagan holiday. A lot of those holidays were not even celebrated until recently. Christmas was not hardly celebrated in this country at all in the 1700's and 1800's. It wasn't until the 1900's that christmas started to be a big holiday. Same with halloween.
2006-10-02 02:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Once again..I am going to answer you..I believe that this is the fourth time:Yes Pagans ripped off Christian holidays.I have researched this fully,thoroughly and have went over it with a fine tooth comb.I am satisfied with the correct conclusion.Do more research...and let go of some of that anger.God bless.
2006-10-02 12:21:42 · answer #4 · answered by John G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and am well aware that most of modern Christianity (based on Catholicism) is based on pagan religions. True Christianity is very different. The book of Revelation tells us the Whore of Babylon is the Catholic Church and this is where the Anti-Christ will come from and unite the world's religions into one that will exalt man to god-hood(falsely).
2006-10-02 02:35:10 · answer #5 · answered by epopsitsirhcitna 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope...who cares anyways? The holidays technically have nothing to do with what they claim to be celebrating anyways.
I am not all Christiany and crap BUT:
Christmas is technically suppose to be celebrating the birth of Jesus, not about gifts. Although I can kinda see in a way where gifts came into play (the 3 wise men bringing gifts to Jesus in all). Not many people are even thinking about Jesus when they are opening gifts. Same as Easter and the Easter Bunny. What does a bunny have to do with Jesus rising from the dead?
They are all made up holidays so people can make more money selling crap.
2006-10-02 02:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by mystique_dragon4 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You fail to understand the wisdom of such "pagan holidays".
The Lord's day, the day of Resurrection, the day of Christians, is our day. It is called the Lord's day because on it the Lord rose victorious to the Father. If pagans call it the "day of the sun," we willingly agree, for today the light of the world is raised, today is revealed the sun of justice with healing in his rays. St. Jerome
By a tradition handed down from the apostles which took its origin from the very day of Christ's Resurrection, the Church celebrates the Paschal mystery every seventh day, which day is appropriately called the Lord's Day or Sunday." The day of Christ's Resurrection is both the first day of the week, the memorial of the first day of creation, and the "eighth day," on which Christ after his "rest" on the great sabbath inaugurates the "day that the Lord has made," the "day that knows no evening." The Lord's Supper is its center, for there the whole community of the faithful encounters the risen Lord who invites them to his banquet: [John 21:12; Luke 24:30.]
2006-10-02 02:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by Search4truth 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Absolutely not!!!!! Christian history shows they were warmongers trying to force others into their beliefs or else!! They don't have the exact dates of the birth of Jesus..It was created.. So yes they very well have "borrowed" from pagans
2006-10-02 02:38:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really don't care one way or the other. What irks me most is the rampant commercialism that has come to characterize both Christmas and Easter. Check out the first link below for my tribute to the Easter Bunny. :-)
2006-10-02 05:48:03 · answer #9 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a historical fact that Christians copied Pagan holidays in order to ruin and overtake their traditions.
2006-10-02 02:30:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋