do christians have any holy days that they didnt steal from pagan religions?

Answer 1

First of all to Jocko_homo cooked meet,fire,maths and science all began with Pagans.Do you really think the Ancient Greeks and Romans and Egyptians weren't Pagans?They sure had lots of science and maths.

As for the main question yes there are some purely Christian holidays but they tend to be the small ones that only very devout Christians celebrate.

Answer 2

I'm not positive, but I think Maundy Thursday is an original.

In the Christian calendar, Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, is the Thursday before Easter, the day on which the Last Supper is said to have occurred.

Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, which was held the evening before the Crucifixion. Friday in Holy Week(Good Friday) is the anniversary of the day that Christ was crucified and died on the cross Holy week and the Lenten season end with Easter Sunday, the day of resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The word "maundy" originates from the command given by Christ at the Last Supper, that we should love one another. Christians remember 'Maundy Thrusday" as the day of the last supper, and when Jesus washed the feet of all his disciples thereby establishing a ceremony known as the Eucharist. Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of "Maundy Thursday '.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Do Pagan religions have any holy days that they didn't steal from other pagans?

Otherwise,
Christmas (believe it or not), Epiphany, Theophany, Presentation of Christ, Nativity of the Theotokos, Presentation of the Theotokos, Elevation of the Holy Cross, Lent, Meatfare Sunday, Cheesefare Sunday, Lazarus Sunday, Sunday of Holy Orthodoxy, Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, Feast of the Apostles, Pentecost, Ascension White Sunday, Ash Wednesday, All Saints Day...

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

BTW - Where did the pagans steal reading, writing, math, science, literature, clothing, and cooked meat?

Answer 5

Yep, I keep bunches of them which God, Himself ordained. It was Papal Rome which thought to "do away" with them (Daniel 7:25) and renamed the pagan holidays as Christian holy days. I just call those "beast days" and God's Days are the only "holy days."

These are God's Holy Days which I believe He established from Creation (Genesis 1:14):

The Seventh Day Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3)
Passover (Leviticus 23:5)
Feast of Unleavened Bread (7 days -- Leviticus 23:6-8)
Feast of the Wave Sheaf (2nd day of U.B. -- Leviticus 23:11)
Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15,16,21)
Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24,25)
Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27-29,32)
Feast of Tabernacles (8 days -- Leviticus 23:34,35,39)

Why do I believe they were established long before the time of Moses and Sinai?

Genesis 1:14 (GNB) Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;

Genesis 19:3 (KJV) And [Lot] pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Psalms 81:3-5 (KJV) Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Answer 6

Since Christians,,not talking Catholic here,,,don't have any holy days, we keep,,,,you need to rethink the question...We know that Christmas is not the birthday of Jesus and we know that Easter is not the time of his death....Jesus told us not to observe one day above another....some of us do get involved with these holidays,,but not because we have to....just because it is joy to get the family together,,,and some observe a Christian Christmas and Easter,,but it is filled with thoughts of Jesus.....not Christmas trees and snowmen or easter bunnies and chicks....that is a secular Christmas or Easter,,,if there can be such a thing..

Answer 7

Good Friday?
Lent?
Ash Wednesday?
Fat Tuesday?
Mardi Gras?

Well, maybe those were pagan ceremonies as well.

Answer 8

Yes, the Seventh Day.

Answer 9

Thanksgiving.

BTW as a Christian I do not keep pagan, heathen holidays such as Xmas, thank you.

Answer 10

St Valenitines day, oh wait no, that's Imbolc
Easter...wait no that's Ostara
Christmas! No um that's Yule
Halloween, wait...damn not that's Samhain
Uhhhh oh I know! St Patrick! We don't claim him. After all he came in and massacred all the pagans. They can have him

edit: Mardis Gras is Christian?? Damn. I might come back over for that one....