I am not talking about christian traditions that are pagan in origin, i am talking about the other way around.
2007-08-20 04:38:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually the question mark appears automatically.
2007-08-20 04:45:09 · update #1
The Christian religion had its start almost 2,000 years ago whereas pagan religions have been around for over 5,000 years. The answer to your question is NO.
2007-08-20 04:51:00 · answer #1 · answered by CURIOUS IN STOCKTON 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, of course it is true. Though a majority of the well known religious crossovers are the other way around, it is inevitable that it works both ways. The responses reflect yet another example of the hypocrisy inherent in the minority.
ADD: Of course you have to consider that the term "pagan" and who gets to call themselves that is a controversial subject.
Does the Voodun religion count? How about Spiritualists? Neo-Pagans? How about people who honestly tried to revive a murdered faith, but are working from documentary information gathered by missionaries? What if they are using English translations that have biased terminology? What if they are using Latin for its exotic nature.
Religion is organic. It changes and grows over time.
2007-08-20 12:49:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Wiccans, for example, invoke the Watchtowers, which come from Enochiana, which is 100% Christian.
That would be an example of a Christian tradition incorporated by some Pagans, but not this one.
2007-08-20 11:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Clear misconception, or more aptly stated, deception. History tells the tale that Pagans were there well before common christianity, and both draw themes from Egypt.
2007-08-20 11:45:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No I dont know where some people get their info perhaps wikipedia since its full of wrong info. Christians got some of their traditions from paganism.
2007-08-20 11:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by Indiana Raven 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they absorbed from pagan and clean it, as you pick a candy from the dirty toilet and flush it?
would you eat it?
Roman Catholicism also "countered" pagan worship by founding, in close proximity to former temples, churches dedicated to "Christian" patrons. Ancient celebrations were adopted and given a "Christian" significance. To express it in the words of La Civiltà Cattolica: "That some customs and religious observances of the early Christians were closely related to certain pagan practices and ways is known to all scholars nowadays. They were practices too dear to the people, customs too deeply rooted and intertwined in the public and private life of the ancient world. The mother church, kind and wise, did not believe that she had to uproot them; rather, by transforming them in a Christian sense, raising them to new nobility and new life, she prevailed over them by means that were powerful yet gentle, so as to win to herself without uproar the souls of both the masses and the cultured
2007-08-20 11:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are funny. I suppose so since Wicca, at least in some measure, was in response to the Christian God, Jesus Christ, appearing as a male. Although, in Christianity, the church is the female.
2007-08-20 11:48:22 · answer #7 · answered by Brief Boxer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Putting a question mark on a statement, still doesn't make it a question.
2007-08-20 11:44:15 · answer #8 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There isn't anything Christian about being pagan nor is there anything pagan about being Christian.
2007-08-20 11:42:31 · answer #9 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋
oh
2007-08-20 20:14:04 · answer #10 · answered by kelly S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋