Many of the months of the year are named after Roman Gods ie March = the roman god of war Mars January is the month of the two faced god Janus June is for the Goddess Juno. July named for the deified Julius Ceaser August for Augustus etc.
Should the twelve months of the year be named after the twelve disciples instead?
Say today could be the 28 of Judas or say your birthday could be the 11 of Doubting Thomas. How cool would that be??
Lobby your government and it could happen, get those Pagans off our calenders now!!!
2006-11-27 16:32:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are talented satirist. Sad how many people don't get it.
2006-11-27 17:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, not going to happen.
Second, the calendar (including the name of the months) was a uniting factor historically, and still is.
Third, NOT EVERYONE IS A FLIPPING CHRISTIAN! The Founding Fathers were NOT all Christian, and even the ones who were saw the damage that was done in Europe by the establishment of a state religion - which is why the First Amendment of the Constitution (in other words, #1 in the Bill of Rights) is freedom of religion. This country is not and SHOULD NOT be a theocracy, and your attempt to further monopolize the country's government is a slap in the face of every non-Christian.
2006-11-28 00:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by triviatm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats the point? It's like the when the French Revolution got out of hand and tried to get anything with remote ties to the old regime. Its impossible to get rid of all ties. Look at the days of the week, Thursday and Thor. Also, we're using the Georgian Calender. The Julian Calender was replaced in the middle ages to place the year 0 alleged on Christ's birth. They kept the names of the months because its real hard to remove it from society.
2006-11-28 00:37:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe but according to the same logic the secularists are paying homage to the Judeo-Christian God through recognizing the 7 day week. It was based upon the 7 days of creation. The 12 month calendar does not mean that anymore and it is ludicrous to say that merely by observing it we are worshipping ancient gods
2006-11-28 00:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by fenwayfreak57 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is there absolutely nothing that you see around you going on in the world today that is more important than this?
If I lobby my government it's going to be to put the 10 Commandments back in the courtrooms and to put prayer back in our schools. I'm tired of reading about innocent children being killed while at school.
Do you honestly think we are paying homage to Pagan Gods because we exist during those months? Perhaps we should just hibernate through the inappropriately named months instead. All of this Pagan talk is getting really tiresome. I don't know what they believe. I don't care what they believe. I am a Christian. I know what I believe and I know why I believe it. More importantly I know that I have a real and personal relationship with my Father God through the blood of His Son Jesus Christ every day of the week and every month of the year.
2006-11-28 00:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by Pamela 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I seriously hope you have better things to do than lobby the government to remove "Pagans" from our calendars.
While you're at it you should probably take up a personal vendetta against Nike.
Why don't you lobby the government for something that would actually make a difference in the world?
2006-11-28 00:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by only 32 characters? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no homage there.
God tells us not to pay attention to such things or we would need to go out of the world....and they are not important.
We Christians have all the freedoms:
1 Cor 10:23-26
23 "Everything is permissible"-but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"-but not everything is constructive. 24 Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26 for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."
(from New International Version)
2006-11-28 01:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Julian calendar was set ages ago by the government of that time. Render to Ceasar.
What you suggest bothers me at times, but then we would also have the week-days, the paganism of modern entertainment, etc. As Paul suggests, they are not really gods so why allow them to bother you.
2006-11-28 00:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't like paying homage to "pagan gods" but would like to see JUDAS the traitor on the calendar? And DOUBTING Thomas? Please be real. You are not seriously suggesting that we "pay homage" to Judas instead of Janus, are you?
2006-11-28 00:42:01 · answer #9 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but it has been used to trick us from knowing the true time!in the hebrew calender were are in like the year 5760 or so.
2006-11-28 00:35:13 · answer #10 · answered by bungyow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians built churches on pagan sites deliberately both to destroy the other religion and to try and get them to worship in the same place.
What has that got to do with a calander? Christmas was a collection of pagan and ancient rites and customs celebrated on the 25th of December. Christian celebrations fell on the 6th of January, or, in March, depending on who's calander you believe. In order to try and cancel out the pagan celebration the Christian celebration was moved to December 25th!!!!
Interestingly many Christians do celebrate on the 6th of January in Europe!
2006-11-28 02:39:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋