Or do you just give out eggs on Easter and laugh at them behind their backs?
2007-04-27 16:38:30 · 14 answers · asked by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is really annoying, especially when they claim that they aren't stolen but completely original. All one has to do is look through the myths of the world to find stories that are almost exactly like Jesus' birth, life and death, and almost every event in the bible, including the flood.
When they claim our holidays as their own, and rename them after saints etc. that is also annoying. They don't have their own holidays so they have to steal ours.
Oh well, that's something all us Pagans will have to deal with, I guess.
2007-04-27 16:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by meg3f 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christianity didn't "steal" other myths. It would be more accurate to say that all religions tend to follow similar patterns and that all myths draw on common motifs that are deeply ingrained in the human psyche.
All religions believe in a creator god. Most also believe in some sort of destroyer. And most of them have some sort of savior figure:
Hinduism has Krishna.
The Aztecs had Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl.
The Greeks had numerous savior figures most notably Dionysus.
The Romans had Mithras.
Christians have Jesus.
The similarity between these figures that span ages and continents may have nothing to do with conscious stealing and more to do with the fact that human societies came into existence in similar harsh conditions, developed similar fears and anxieties, and saw similar solutions to the questions of origins, life and death, good and evil, creation and destruction.
2007-04-27 17:28:09 · answer #2 · answered by Cacaoatl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't mind the fact that they share our myths; however, it does annoy me that they think they came up with them originally. jesus is the reason for the season?! Come on, reality check.
If your holidays are stolen and copied, at least be fair enough and educate yourselves about it // admit it.
It pisses me off the most when the ignorant n00bs say, after I go to a certain length to explain the true origin of a holiday: "no, you're wrong, this is really a christian tradition, you guys just copied it".
That makes me wanna break bones.
2007-04-27 22:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Christians are like magpies in that they only take the best and brightest aspects of each spiritual tradition and leave the rest behind. In sharp contrast, Asatru does not need to steal or borrow from other traditions to make it a strong or complete faith simply because it doesn't have to, it's already complete and strong as it is.
2007-04-27 22:40:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It used to bug me a lot. Now I try to take it with a sense of humor, and I never let an opportunity pass to educate Christians about Ostara and Winter Solstice celebration, they seem to know a bit more about the associations of paganism with Samhain!
In all seriousness, I have struggled with the ignorance and prejudices out there one or two times, and it has occasionally left me feeling angry that Christianity gets all the glory for the Lady's celebrations. What makes me the angriest is Christianity's claim that their way is the only way. I have tied myself up in knots about the horrible untruth of this. My High Priestess amazed and calmed me in this struggle one time when she agreed to initiate me. She told me that Christianity is truth too because it is their truth.
Bottom line is that I can't make them see it, and I shouldn't try, because they walk their path and I walk mine, and in the end we all walk to the One.
Bright Blessings in all the Goddesses and Gods,
Lady Morgana
2007-04-27 16:53:30 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really bother me too much. I try to respect everyone, regardless of their beliefs. If they can find a little peace and comfort in our myths then I have no reason to judge them for it. As for Easter, I still recognize it as a Christian holiday. Why? My parents are devout Catholics and they take Easter very seriously. I honor the holiday as a way of respecting their beliefs.
Great question. Thanks for asking.
2007-04-27 17:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find it annoying how christians claim pagans stole their myth's. Oh well, I guess the sheeple don't bother to read or are not encouraged to.
2007-04-27 16:54:33 · answer #7 · answered by Armand Steel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no i find it annoying that they try to have laws passed that would require people to follow their morality.
the holidays thing, in all truth, has served more to Paganize the Christian church than it has to destroy Pagan cultures.
seriously think about it. up untill the christian invasion of europe the church was a ONE GOD church. now they follow a triune god. and celebrate pagan holidays with Pagan customs.
2007-04-27 16:44:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I find it annoying that they refuse to acknowledge their own history more than anything. I find it annoying that they don't read their own bibles cover to cover, much less study history.
I don't laugh at them behind their backs.. I'm happy to let them live in their delusions.. right up until they start trying to legislate their "morality" onto the rest of us, all the while screaming "persecution" when we try to stop them. THAT annoys me more than anything else about them.
2007-04-27 16:52:17 · answer #9 · answered by Kallan 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Pagans R pleased.
Imitation is the best form of flattery.
2007-04-27 17:36:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋