Why did Christians steal their religion then base it as their own?

Question

My question is why did Christians of the past take the religion "Peganism" and claim it as their own and then kill off the Pegans? Was this to eliminate any proof of the stealing of their religion? Why do a majority of the population now claim Christianity as the major religion when in reality it's not even the Christians religion? Is it just me or does religion seem more like a reason to start wars and fights than to actually find true peace and harmony? All I've really ever seen from religion is war and anger toward other religions and non-believers. To me religion divides us from one another and groups us instead of uniting us as one. If religion is the path to true happiness how come their is so much anger and hatred toward other religions and religious factors? I'd like to end my question/ rant with a quote "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

I'd really just like to know what everybody thinks and maybe get people thinking at the same time.

Answer 1

I've studied these questions for years. I may have a few answers. The first so-called Xtians came to conclusions about man, god, and the universe. Their only problem was that what they decided upon was the same as stuff from earlier paganism -- e.g, the immaculate conception, the ordeal, and crucifixion. Thus they had a need to repaint and reupholster it, so to speak, (into history instead of esoteric mythology.) Hence Xtianity was trotted out as something new. The stupid Emperor of Rome had to force the Academy of Athens closed, in order to hide the theft plagiarism) and to also prevent competition from a much more realistic religion which had not historicized its message.

Moreover, it was apparent to them that their rotten old Empire, by the time of the psycho Emperor Constantine I, was already entering onto the skids, so to speak.

Most people throughout their evil Empire were into esoteric Xtianity in which the events in the bible were not historical but were mythological depicting, esoterically, the experential process for spiritual awakening and growth. (For example the placement of Jesus upon the cross had an esoteric meaning of the God-essence being placed within the biologically-living individual where it was confined away from its preferable realm of the supernal and imprisoned in the flesh for a time as a prisoner is in a prison cell to deal with this rotten evil no-good world (not the globe but rotten "civilization" created by evil men for their best interests) for the purpose of bringing the lower entity, us, up to a higher level of spiritual evolution.

Because the Roman Empire was in an advanced state of dry-rot, they decided to adapt the religion preferred by the masses of their colonies (to avoid colonies revoting against Rome) to hold onto whatever they could of it (Empire) -- hence christianity, and especially the Catholic church, was born. "Catholic" is an adjective meaning "universal" as the earlier Empire had also been touted as being universal.

The early and medieval church had been run as a rotten dictatorship as had been earlier Empire, and those, seen as possible competition, were to be exterminated -- e.g., The Albigensian Crusade in southern France resulted, in which thousands had been murdered with genocide being the result, merely because some people wanted to interpret the bible defferently. The modern saying, "kill 'em all, God will sort 'em out!" by modern-day rambo butts originated with the cat's church's answer to one of their soldier's questions -- "How do we tell the heretics from the non-heretics?" Answer: "Kill 'em all, God knows his own!" Yes, that's xtianity and how it came about, for ya'!

The same, pretty much, resulted from the onslaught of Protestantism after Henry VIII's mutiny against Rome. Before breaking with Rome, Prots complained about Rome's brutal treatment of those who disagreed with it, and after the breaking away (the Reformation) the Prots did the very same thing to those not agreeing with them.

Christianity, which Christ did not found, was cobbled together as a Roman scheme to keep their rotten soiled Empire together in some form. It was a matter of wealth and power that created xtianity. Nothing else.
Christ, if He was a real person and not a symbol to denote the perfected individual who became such by living the commandments and laws set down and attributed to him in the bible, had as his prupose, the reformation of Judaism and nothing else. When the Jews rejected his suggestions, the suggestions were taken and formed into a new set of beliefs after his crucifixion forming a new belief system --xtianity. Later Constantine I, approved xtianity but only if he could control it. The name "Catholic" goes back as far as Bishop Irenaeus (130-202 AD) [now Saint, yeah, sure he is!] as far as I can tell. I think that Irenaeus, et al, really believed his historicized crap, but it was Constantine I (325 AD) who turned it into a replacement-cover for earlier Roman imperialism.

All in all, it was created for far less than morality.

To read more about the true history of and purpose for xtianity, I recommend:

"Bloodline of the Holy Grail" by Gardner.

"The World's 16 Crucified Saviors" by Kersey.

The works by Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Ph.D.

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Answer 2

Because Christianity as we know it today, was formed by a weakening Roman Empire, who was desperately trying to consolidate power.

The empire was crumbling and they needed a vehicle to keep everyone together. Christianity was the newest religion going around, and Constantine recognized that using it would help him keep his job.

Subsequent popes realized theat the many belief systems in Christianity and Paganism could be consolidated in order to increase the fold, so voila! Jesus was born on December 25th miraculously on the same day as the winter solstice celebration.

Then the canonization process sealed the deal and formalized the religion and the dark ages began.

Christians as a whole, just don't care to look into the history of their religion, because it is too sensitive.

Answer 3

All belief systems, take beliefs from those, who come before them. Some, just don't admit it. Most traditional religions are backward, and originate from a time of little knowledge or technology, when people believed in a lot of strange things. Our religions need to open up to new and better spiritual ideas, so that they can be helpful in elevating the morality of this planet, and get people to start addressing, the very serious problems that exist here.

Answer 4

The longevity of Christianity lies in its ability to recreate and repackage itself. They took what worked from other religions and will only fight against something as long as it serves their purpose.

In fact you might call Christianity itself 'the great repackaging'. The tossing out those things of in the old testament that it found hard to enforce.

Even now we see it happening. In just the last few decades Christianity has embraced ecology which it once protested against and we see it slowly adopting evolution.

Where it failed however is in its own success. It has become too large for centralized control of its followers. Therefore it takes much longer for the things it 'changes its mind' about to become widely accepted. And even then some of it members don't get the memo as it were.

This is why we still see some Christians saying widely accepted behaviors and ideas are against god and christianity.

Answer 5

This much I know for sure, Jesus Christ, came to me and conforted me and I felt as if I was his son. The experience was so profound that it changed my life and from that time on I knew Jesus is God and he is more real then anything you can imagine in your small mind. I will watch with much pain if you do not repent on the day you will have to bow your knee to my Lord and say,"Jesus Christ, you are Lord and God." Then you will be cast into the pit of Hell.

Answer 6

the WORD of God is likened to a seed. does the wheat seed only belong to a certain group of people in the earth? or does the seed of corn only belong for a certain group of people. or does anyone have a monopoly on any given seed in the earth? No, i would say not. neither does any group have a monopoly on the Word of God. it is for whosoever will job and noah and abraham were not jews. they were gentiles. abraham was a chaldean which is a gentile and God called him or made him the first hebrew

Answer 7

It's just you. Christianity is not Paganism. You need to research Paganism to find out what it is. Your question does not hold water.

Answer 8

They could n´t come up with anything original that hasn´t been written, said or thought. But then they got the original idea to steal.

Answer 9

christians are forever taking things that do not belong to them, even pagan land/s.....i.e. North America.

Answer 10

It's just totally amusing they think their beliefs have basis in 'god's word' when they were all plagiarized from older myths.