huge religion question?

Question

What does pegan mean? hows it related to catholic/christian?what else is related to catholic/christian? (im not sayong catholic and christian are the same but close enough).

Answer 1

Pagans are people who do not believe in God. The relationship Paganism has with Catholics and Christianity is, the churches in order to get the pagans to the church they let them keep the pagan holidays, their little rituals and all the good things that go with paganism. The churches changed the names on the pagan festivals to suit the religion of Catholics and Christians.

So one should ask themselves if they think that the holidays that they celebrate are pleasing to God. My guess would be NO!!!!1

Answer 2

Pagan is the correct spelling. According to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Pagans wer originally country folk. Now, with language change and time, pagan means any religion or belief set that is NOT based in Christianity, Judaism, or Muslim.

Pagan is related to Christianity because a lot of the practices and religious apporaches of the country folk were adopted and redesigned by the church in order to draw people in; to make the transititions easier. For example - most Christian holidays are the same dates as older religious holidays. The former gods were transformed into saints. The sacrement has older origins, etc.

Most of history is related to religion.

Catholics ARE Christians. All that is required to be Christian is a belief in Christ. Catholics do that as well. EVERY sect of Christianity practices it a little differently - Catholics, Methodists, baptists,. Lutherans, Protestants, Presbyterians, Mennonites, Amish, etc. All Christian, all going about it a bit differently.

Answer 3

Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers

Answer 4

Paganism are the earth based religions. They worship the spirits in living things, and honor the Sacred in all objects. Historically, Christianity came into areas where various forms of paganism were practiced and usurped it or forbid its practice. The witches who were burned in Europe were very likely pagans. One of the reasons given for taking the lands of the Native people of the Americas and elsewhere was the "Christianize" them. However, in some areas, the pagan practice can still be found, mixed up with the rites of the Catholic Church. This is true of Santorina, a pagan religion with roots in Africa.

Answer 5

Pagans typically believe in numerous false Gods.

The Catholic Church converted most of the world's pagans to Christ, long before the first protestants ever existed.

Protestants who know nothng about true Catholicism like to say that Catholics were converted by pagans, rather than the other way around.

But since Jesus personally founded the Catholic Church, and he promised to bless it and keep it until the end of the age, that's not very likely.

Answer 6

"Pagan" is originally a city in India. The British were somewhat astonished at how many freakin' gods the Hindis had, and in English ever since, "pagan" means multiple gods. In this respect, it has absolutely nothing in common with Christianity, which derives from Hebrew, which confesses, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4). God is one. Thus, in a way, saying there are multiple gods is a perversion of the trinity, which the Bible teaches is one God who are three persons. (I don't understand it either, but there we are. I know what God says, and that's about it.)

The relationship to Catholicism is a little odder. Technically, Catholicism teaches Christian doctrine, but then they layer these other things over it: Mary, saints, relics. They say this is merely "praying to," except the Catholic is then praying to someone who is dead. Meanwhile, it looks a lot like worship, and some of the "saints" look a lot like old pagan deities. So are they pagan or not? That one is up to each member . . . I do think that some are pagan like Mormons are pagans (who do teach that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate gods.)

Answer 7

Catholic and Christian are not the same. The Catholics have incorporated many Pagan elements into their religion, such as "Easter", Easter eggs, and Christmas trees. The Orthodox churches have remained pure Christian.

Answer 8

paganism was/is a religion. before Christianity it was the most widespread religion.

and its related to catholics and such because.. back when Catholics started to form.. they adapted some of the pagans traditions to make it easier for them to convert.

example: celebrating jesus birthday in December, which coincides with the winter solstice (which was a pagan celebration).... (jesus was born in i think April or may.. i cant remember....)

Answer 9

Do you mean Pagan? It's means country dweller and it refers to people who practice Nature based pre-Christian religions.

Answer 10

Pagan means precursor to the Christian.
Pagans were the earliest cursors known.

Pagans and Christians have one big thing in common (among many other big things): they both like to eat copious quantities of pork.