Can someone explain the similarities of Paganism and Christianity?

Question

in terms of the forthcoming holiday celebrations?

How did we get from Pagan beliefs to Christianity?

Did people used to celebrate the winter solstice origionally?

Answer 1

Let's see what happened with Easter and Christmas: In our Pagan/Wiccan belief, we celebrate both. Yule, celebrated on the 21st of December, is the celebration of the light.
It means, that we celebrate that the days will get longer and brighter again. The Easter Hare and the eggs, symbolize fertility. Life after death. It has been christianized, but it's much older then christianity. Somewhere in history, the catholic church wanted control over all those rituals.
Of course, no one dared to resist, as severe torture made people humble and and therefor this religion could expand so well. Everyone who was against it, has been killed immediately!!! It looks like both religions have similarities, but infact the catholic church has stolen and transformed the truth of the Laws of Nature, Love and Civilization and turned it into a terrormachine to use it against mankind to rule, abuse and rob them. They prove that this is the result of their demonian behaviour, but they blame it to the innocent ones, the witches who only obey the Laws of Nature and will never harm anyone by belief. The cruelty overrules this world as long as we allow it.

Answer 2

Great Question!

The Roman Catholics brought these wicked and sinful rituals into the Christian fold via Constantine the Great. A Roman Emperor who claimed that a vision in the sky of the cross super imposed over the sun led him to believe that he should be a Christian (This story makes no sense to me, because both the sun and the cross are symbols of his Pagan religions). But, he became a self-proclaimed Christian and mandated all of Rome to also become Christians.

The bad part was that Constantine was a Pagan and didn't want to stop being a Pagan just because he was now a Christian - he also knew that he would never be able to get the Pagan people to give up their rituals, and he believed that blending the two religions together would make it easier for the Pagan worshipers to more readily accept Christianity.

So, instead of following Christ and His anointed Apostles in the right way, he kept his two favorite Pagan holidays (the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox) as well as their rituals and just added Christ to them.

These are the same rituals and holidays that main-stream Christianity celebrate to this day and call them Christian.

But, unfortunately they are not and they Never will be Christian or of Christ in any way.

"What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?" (2nd Cor 6:15)

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Good Bless You!

Answer 3

Many pagan rituals were picked up by Christianity in an effort to make the new religion a little more palatable to the new "converts"....whose conversion might be more pragmatic and worldly than spiritual. The day of the dead, when spirits walked, was replaced with All Souls Day, and they winked at the begging from door to door and spirit lights put out the night before so the dead could find their way, as long as everyone went to mass in the morning.

Many of the symbols of Christmas are taken from other religions. Jesus was probably born in late February to early March, actually, but as the other popular savior-god of the time, Mithras, was born on the winter solstice with the reborn sun, that birthday was given to Jesus as well. It's likely many trappings of the mythos of Jesus birth (birth in a cave, etc.) are also borrowed from Mithraism. Most of our modern customs of hanging holly and evergreens, the Christmas tree, the Yule log, and such are all survivals of European pagan traditional tree worship.

Modernly, many pagans are rather comfortable with the symbology; for us, the Goddess gives birth to the God at the solstice, and what Name he takes in celebration is pretty irrelevant to many of us. It's all good, if we can all just get along.

Answer 4

Yes people used to celebrate the solstice originally. Pagan beliefs ended up in Christianity when the early church adapted many of the Pagan's practices in an effort to convert them to Christianity; the church thought that if the Pagans could see their own rituals and practices at work in the Christian church that they would be more eager to convert.

Answer 5

All Xmas costumes are pagan. Many different pagan customs combined. I usually provide links but I just created this account because Christians are trying to ge my account deleted for my questions concerning our holiday which they celebrate against scripture.

Here are some similarities. the birth of a god giving gifts the holly King rides in a sleigh dawn by stags the decorating of trees which in the old Testament is mentioned and condemned and a curse placed on God's people who take pagan celebrations and make them their own.

The Persian god Mithras sound very similar to christ born on December 25 according to many legends died and was ressurected, but Mithras legend is much older than Christ i could go on and on.

the pictures you see of Mary and Baby Jesus is taken from Isis and Horus(spelling)

Actually everything about Christianity has roots in pagan religions
BB

Answer 6

The trinity, Maid Mother, Crone< virgin births. raising from the dead, animals or landscape talking, One giving life for the many, I could go on

Answer 7

belief in a higher power...trinity...acceptance of a blood sacrifice...these are all elements which resemble some polytheists in one form or another.

Pagan beliefs were accepted into Christianity in an attempt to convert larger numbers...it became pliable, and has always been changing in one way or another since its roots.

Answer 8

Cristianity was born from paganism.

Answer 9

I suppose that you don't know how to read. Shame.