Are you able to list down all the pagan rituals that christians and catholics practise today?

Question

See how many can you come up with..one with the most correct answers get 10 points. You can also include practises or rituals that aren't really pagan in origin but are not in scripture or against scripture.

Xpi, Your viewpoint is consistent with most catholics. Christians on the other hand deny that Dec 25 is a pagan holiday. Catholics on the other hand know the true nature of Dec 25, but believe that the Church has the auhority to "Christianize" Dec 25 as the birthdate of the Messiah. Whatever position you take, Dec 25 is still a pagan holiday, the birthdate of the sun god.

"Once a pagan is baptized, he is no longer pagan, but Christian"

Again as mentioned above, somehow, you have the idea that baptism by man overrides God's judgement.

Answer 1

Christmas, Christmas tree (Jeremiah)
Hallowe'en
Easter
Sprinkling a child's head is Christening, NOT baptism. This is a public confession of Christ with a full body immersion.
Changing Sabbath to Sunday
Rosary Beads
Confirmation in eighth grade (supposed to fulfill baptism?)
Not celebrating Jewish feasts like Passover and Succot
Praying to people like Mary or Saints
Calling a preist "Father"
Praying to Idols (like Fatima statue)
Ignoring OT Laws, like pork and shellifsh ban
People having superiority over the other, like the Pope ahead of Cardinals, then Bishops, Archbishops, preists, deacons.
Confessing sins to man not G-d through Jesus.
Plus many feel Mystery Babylon is fulfilled as Vatican city.

Notice how all of these are practiced by Catholics, very few by funamentalists and NONE by Messianic Jews and Christians...thats why I became Messianic.

Answer 2

Valentines Day the worship of Mary and the Saint (or just praying to them if it makes the Catholics feel better about calling it that rather than what it is) Sunday sabbath statues of Jesus, Mary and the saints / pictures of Jesus / God did warn of mixing worldly, pagan ritual with pure and holy worship if we worship Him we must do it in spirit and in truth- there is no truth to the pagan rooted rituals and observances teacherintheroom- you should take a lesson before teaching falsities - the rituals Christians practice for easter - sunrise service, coloring and hiding eggs, easter bonnet/ new dress are ALL pagan oriented and have meanings that have nothing to do with what they say they are observing- God gave a feast, pure perfect and holy to observe the death, burial and ressurection of Jesus, why replace it- Christmas also- this does not just happen to fall at the same time as a pagan holiday- it is saturated in paganism and about every ritual christians participate in for Christmas starting with bringing a dead tree into the house and ending with kissing under the mistletoe are all ever so ungodly and have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus.

Answer 3

Once a pagan is baptized, he is no longer pagan, but Christian.

The same thing applies to former pagan observances that have been supplanted by Christian ones.

As for scripture, it's highly unlikely that any Protestant could ever arrive at the true meaning, out of the over 31,000 different Protestant interpretations out there.

On the other hand, the Catholic Church alone enjoys the leadership of Christ, along with the assurance of truth, as provided by the Holy Spirit.

I'll take those odds, any day.

Answer 4

Catholics ARE Christians. Your idea that Catholics practice pagan rituals expresses your bias that they do. I am a Catholic and a knowledgible one and I do not practice any pagan ritual nor know of any practiced in the Catholic Church. I think you are expressing an ingrained prejudice toward Christianity. Christians, ie Catholics, incorporated within their religious expression certain aspects from the pagan cultures that they replaced. For example the celebration of Christ's birth on December 25, a time when the pagans used to celebrate the sun god because at the winter soltice the days begin to lengthen in the northern hemisphere. But Christmas isn't therefore a pagan ritual. The Christians, ie Catholics, took the pagan date and celebrated the true Light that has come into the world.

Answer 5

Easter/Easter bunny
Halloween/All hollows eve/All Saints day
Mardigra/lent
Advent/Christmas/all at the same time/tree,pagan
Allowing female ucharistic ministers.
Allowing one to partake in the Eucharist while in mortal sin
dress attire/not showing respect and allowing it
drinking and eating before mass (supposed to wait 2 hr bfr and aftr)
Having the priest face you instead of the Crucifix.
Having meat on fridays (not only during lent, but your not supposed during all yr long)
Allowing a god-parent not to be a active catholic or not be a catholic.
I could go on and on. I am catholic, love being catholic, but due to the fact that humans are involved you will always have sin and faulty thinking.

Answer 6

Roman Catholics, first of all, are NOT Christian. They misuse that term. The term "Christian" means 'followers of Christ" and the RC church is FAR from it. I'm a born again Christian and I can tell you right now that my church is a bible-preaching church with NOOOOOOOO paganistic rituals whatsoever! I'm a former RC and so, I can give you a list of pagan rituals and practices of the RC church. For starters, they worship the pope (an antichrist), the virgin Mary (who is NOT God nor was she perfect, as the RCs believe), their form of communion (Holy Eucharist) is called 'transsubstantiation, which means the wafer 'magically' becomes the actual body (or flesh) of Christ, which is TOTALLY false. If those 'cookies' WERE the actual body of Christ and they ate it, it would be pure cannibalism! 'Confirmation' is another ritual not found in the bible (none of their rituals are biblical), confession (you don't need a mediator between you and God to confess your sins to and besides, you're confessing your sins to another sinner), using a 'daily missal' to read from instead of actually preaching a sermon from the bible, homosexual priests, women bishops, using rosary beads to pray with, which is a form of idolatry, keeping Christ nailed to the cross when he rose from the dead, etc., etc., etc., - need I continue? Again, NONE of these rituals have anything to do with Christianity - it is ALL Romanism and the RC church misuses the term 'Christianity'. They use it as an 'umbrella' just to merely separate themselves from other religions, thinking that they are a Christian religion, but are far from it - believe me - I know - was born and raised in that religion, but thanks be to God, I'm no longer a part of that pagan religion! God has opened my heart to see and understand the difference between the truth and lies - the RC church is ONE BIG LIE - ALL OF IT! Here's another interesting fact about the RC church: did you know centuries ago that if people, namely Christians, didn't convert to the RC religion, they were tortured and slaughtered beyond comprehension?? Their tongues were cut out, eyes gouged out, etc. Look up the history of that church - you'll see that what I'm saying is true. There's a book out about that church also that exposes the dirty secrets of that money-making empire. I forget the title off-hand, but there is a book out about that whole pompous religion and it brings to light what that religion was and is all about.

Answer 7

well Im not sure but the contradictions with scripture for me are:

-eating pork ( forbidden)
-praying to statues and worshipping idols(creating similarity to God)
-crossing during prayers ( not in scripture)
-eating so called blood and body of Jesus (only in Bible not other scriptures)
-nominating people into saints` ranks ( forbidden)
-drawing icons which are personification of God ( creating similarity to God again)
-horoscopes reading ( relying onto nature, not God`s will)

Sure it is not all but this is what I know

Answer 8

Halloween, the Easter bunny, Santa, Christmas trees, superstitions like knocking on wood or throwing salt over your shoulder, using prayer beads, praying to saints, praying for the dead, and that's the most I can think of right now.

Answer 9

I'm not sure of all of them but I do know that Christmas was a pagan holiday, so that's one.

Answer 10

Praying to the Virgin Mary. Believing the Pope has authority to Etc.supercede the Bible with what he says. Praying to saints, etc.