Back in the day when the christian church was young they choose texts and holidays to include certian traditions of other religions and exclude others that they saw as a threat not just to God but the acceptence of their church order. One of these characters was Pan. They choose to demonify him wich is odd since he seems the least judgmental and treatning of all the Greek gods that I have heard of. He was a woodland good of the region known as Arcadia. His name literaly means all.
2007-03-24 09:58:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am getting a little tired of the people that ask what the point to a question. The point is to strike up conversations with people that might enjoy discussing the subject. The point is to find out what other people think about the subject to get people thinking that might otherwise not.
2007-03-24 10:12:38 · update #1
Yes, and they also did the same to Cernonous, the Celtic god of the forest when they got to that part of world. Oh, and "Lucifer" was originally the name of a persian god of light.
Oh, one of the reasons Pan was chosen was because he was known to be sexually promiscouis...much like the Satyrs that he looked like, and he and the god Bacchus where good friends.
2007-03-24 10:04:42 · answer #1 · answered by harpertara 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It mystifies me how the Christian religion can take the most beautiful concepts and make them into something evil and make its own members afraid of the beautiful stories.
This demonification of Pan is just one of many examples...Wiccans and Druids are others. They are most certainly NOT satanic but see their "god" in women, nature and numbers. St. Patrick is no saint in my book for running them out of Ireland. He slaughtered them so that there would be no one to pass down the tradition and not a bad tradition it was. St. Patrick was the Jihadist of his day and Christians celebrate him like he did a good thing. If we hate Osama Bin Ladin, we should hate St. Patrick too...
Ahhh! Christians can disagree if they want to...its still a free world until their religion takes over.
2007-03-24 20:51:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the devil does not look like that and most Christians don't follow that he has horns and a tail. In the Bible he is described as being beautiful. He must have been God created him.
2007-03-24 17:13:41 · answer #3 · answered by angel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity plagiarized a lot of things... like Noah's story, and the winter solstice celebrations of the time - that celebrated the birth of the "sun god". Christians still celebrate the winter solstice they just call it Christmas and claim its to celebrate the birth of the "son of god".
2007-03-24 17:42:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pan was the god of human characteristics.and he wasn't red. they got that from set, the crimson Egyptian god of the desert. 400 years ago there was a group called the Illuminati(illuminators) . they made scientific discoveries that disproved the roman catholic church and was their biggest threat . Lucifer means light bringer.isn't it weird that if you bring light, you illuminate. The roman catholic church made up that stuff about Lucifer being synonymous with the devil.
2007-03-24 17:29:00 · answer #5 · answered by Booter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian I can't stand the way people try to portray the devil with horns and everything. He was an angel first and can protray himself as such.
2007-03-24 17:03:36 · answer #6 · answered by wkennedy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is interesting that you would say the accepted image of Satan was created by Christians. You are wrong. A true believer knows that Satan is a fallen angel and is probably stunning in his beauty. The caricature you describe was not created by us but rather by those who don't know better. Beautiful or not, he is still the enemy and the accuser of the brethren.
2007-03-24 17:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Jouvert 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yup - Christianity stole a ton of things from different
religions. Arguably the Christmas celebration is
a variant of Saturnalia, etc.
What's your point?
2007-03-24 17:02:35 · answer #8 · answered by Elana 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Let me stop your lie in it's tracks! Every Christian knows that the devil was an angel named Lucifer. the depiction is a cartoonists rendition, not that of any church. We do not focus on satan. Our energy, hearts, and eyes are trained on the Lord God Almighty!
2007-03-24 17:03:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's just like the symbol that I have has become associated with Satanism.
2007-03-24 17:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋