You christians must be kidding? Right?

Question

Some of 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?


http://www.heart7.net/date/holdef.html... and http://www.cs.cuc.edu/~twhitset/writings...

and http://www.overopinionated.com/holidayor...

for those of you who truely believe that christian holidays are not just rip offs of paganism, look at these websites and tell me if you still think like that

sorry about the dead links, here ya go..


http://www.heart7.net/date/holdef.html

http://www.cs.cuc.edu/~twhitset/writings/holidays.html


http://www.overopinionated.com/holidayorigins.htm

lol, epona


i reasked this question as i didn't get any decent responses from the christians,

i notice that during different times of the day, different people are on, so i reask this to get some more, different asnwers.

As for being angry?
no i'm not angry i'm just tired of the ignorance and denial, ( and i do admit that i have fun with this)

Answer 1

I am Pagan and would like to respond.
You posted this earlier and did so in the same fashion. You come across as angry. There is no need for that.
Sure, there may be a few Christians who feel their celebrations do not have Pagan roots, but they aren't hurting anyone. By the way Christians can produce sites that will back up their claims as well. This is a pointless exercise.

Blessings )O(

EDIT: Understood. I have a healthy repect for research.

Answer 2

Christians don't have holidays friend. I don't find any such reference in the Bible except for sabbath keeping. Jewish sabbaths had been abolished, the only holy day left is the sabbath of the Lord listed in the 10 commandments (Exodus 20). If you would like i can give you Bible studies which predicted paganism coming into the church - listing exact time periods also. - Also the Eucharist (or the bread and grape juice) - i guess that should be done around March when the Jewish passover use to be.

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God bless!!

Answer 3

You asking the same question multiple times Friend is not going to change the truth.You have alot of anger that we are praying for.Once again Yes my friend Pagans ripped off Christian holidays and Christ was around before Pagans(Psalms 90:2).I want to Thank you for continually bringing this up as the truth should be told...God bless.

Answer 4

None of your links worked for me....

But how the hell did people work this out.

People have been happily pagan for a while now... Christianity is relatively new, surely it is logical that the pagan festivals would have been there first.

What about Easter, even the name is pretty much the same as the Goddess.

Oh well, not the first time the Christians have been miss informed

Answer 5

Asa practicing Pagan of 13 years, I feel so embarrassed for Xians world wide.
The Old testament is actually a pagan book.
The stories are about the Sumerian Pantheon.
Elohim means Gods and Goddesses together.
Compare the ot to sumerian mythology and the gilgamesh epic.
I actually had a xian tell me that even though the Gilgamesh epic had been written 1,300 years before the OT that Gilgamesh ripped off the OT.
LMAO!!!!
The egyptians used to say the name of their chief deity at the end of a prayer...AMUN.
Want to know more? email me.

Answer 6

Nobody "ripped" off anyone else's days! Pagans worship multiple gods and have feast days in honor of them. Like harvest day. This was done in the last month of their calendar year (October). Back then there were only 10 months. Christians tried to convert non-believers and thus held their celebration of Jesus' birth day around the pagan's harvest day. The calendar changed 4 times before we have the one we use today. Christmas is celebrated in December now but was celebrated in October in the earlier days. Christians tried to overthrow the pagans' feast days by holding their holy days (holidays) around the same time of the year. Christianity never "copied" pagan feast days nor vice versa. It was all done to convert. There is no need to change the holidays of Christianity so they remain the same.

Answer 7

Iknow the catholic church adopted many pagen festivals and holdays and the worst the replace dthe gosdess diana with Mary who many catholics still treat as a godess. true they have stayed as christian vestifals but the names have become christian and there is no reason to not celebrat christianity on those days even if origanaly they were pagen festivals

Answer 8

3 dead links won't prove your point.

And I already know they ripped them off but I also know that some are to stupid to see the facts.

Edit to add;

I Sweden we still use the word Jul (Yule) for Christmas, we also celebrate on the 24th not the 25th. The word for Easter, PÃ¥sk, comes from the Hebrew word Pesach, while the English word comes from an ancient pagan goddess. ... Funny how things can turn out.

Answer 9

Of course they did. They ripped off most of the stories in the bible too, for example, the death & resurrection story.

Answer 10

so the bible is pagan no is it so why are the christians having a go at the wiccan then