If you remove the stolen pagan elements from the Christian Cult there would be nothing left.
Is their hatred of Pagans the guilty conscience of a thief?
2007-12-14 21:45:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even much of their myth is stolen even the concept of the 'Son of God.' which would have been an anathema and blasphemy to 1st cent. Jews was a common place in Greek and Roman Paganisn (Though they would not have used the word pagan of course.)
2007-12-14 21:52:35 · update #1
Oh dear maybe I should read more.
Don't attack the person attack the arguement. FOR THE RECORD. IM AN EX SUNDAYSCHOOL TEACHER AND HAVE A BA IN ANCIENT HISTORY AND AN MA IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AND MYTH. I DO READ!!!!
2007-12-14 22:08:22 · update #2
If you find the truth offensive that is your problem not mine.
2007-12-14 22:10:38 · update #3
Please read my question before you answer I said 'So many Christians,' not all. So it is not a gross generalization.
Try reading the question!
2007-12-14 22:14:53 · update #4
Willful ignorance.
2007-12-14 21:55:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Surely the Jewish components isn't pagan.
And by Pagan you mean... anything that isnt Christian?
Hard to expect any religon/philosophy/society not to be affect in some way by the enviroment that it existis in.
Pluis the comonality could be a reflection of the deep seated need for a salvation belife in the collective subconsicous.
As to the Hatred, it started a Roman thing.
The Romans Kill the Druids, the Christians and anyone else who they percieved as a threat. Then they coverted the continue kill, they just picked new targets
2007-12-15 08:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by Blain C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because if you read the New Testament its basically about Jesus and the salvation message He brought. It goes into great detail about this. A few similarities between that and pagan myths/beliefs doesn't mean they were copied from pagan ideas.
2007-12-15 08:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like someone else said on here some holidays may have been adapted from pagan to Christian celebration but don't get it twisted, the Scriptures are the bedrock of our instruction and enlightenment. And the big kicker is, Christ is not welcomed in paganism but Christ is the cornerstone of our relationship with God the Father.
2007-12-15 05:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Merry Christmas!
2007-12-15 05:56:58 · answer #5 · answered by That Guy Drew 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Once again gross generalizations about believers based on your limited experience??
We teach it in Sunday School. It's taught to new members, it's mentioned every holiday in sermons, news letters, church bulletins. Catholics like myself take great pride in the way the Church has incorporated local customs and traditions into our Faith. It a basic and common aspect of Church history.
And how does one steal pagan tradition, ritual and practice?
Show me your ownership certificate!
When the Church was made the official religion of Rome, we got legal custody. We even paid support!
Christians love pagans, as many of us were former pagans ourselves with pagan friends and families.
I wish we did more of it.
Your just bitter cause your worldview didn't come out on top-
don't blame others for your own decline.
2007-12-15 06:00:39 · answer #6 · answered by patrick m 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am not Christian, but I am tollerant. What they did was brilliant, and it worked didn't it. It is much more beneficial to convert a society than to go to war with it. And Christianity is no longer a cult, it has tax-free status, so it's a religion now :)
2007-12-15 05:57:14 · answer #7 · answered by Scottsays 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We really only stole the Holidays at Christmas and Easter and kinda blundered at the Halloween thing but I am sure we will fix it with a victorious Savior day. Our belief system has been copied and watered down by many others but is not a copy of pagan beliefs.
2007-12-15 05:50:58 · answer #8 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It has to do with the POPE, the Emperor Comstantine (of Rome), and the 'infallability' of Catholic dogma. (circa 315 a.d), and the council of Kells in 1115 a.d.
2007-12-15 06:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So the pagans believe that Jesus is God's son and that he died on the cross and three days laterh e rose and went to sit by God's side in heaven and that If you ask Jesus into your heart and believe that he died for your sin and rose again and that when you come to him with an open and willing hear then you will be saved and that one day when you die you will go to heaven. And then you also believe that it is by faith we are saved. So you must pray and worship Jesus and God as the true creator. That's what we stole from you.
Wonderful we must be on the same side. no need to complain then.
2007-12-15 06:02:30 · answer #10 · answered by island girl 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Christians are a little bit weird in that respect. They close their eyes to the fact that their God has a lot to do with myth. We should repair christians.
2007-12-15 06:04:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋