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Originally Posted by OneFormula
Well, it's well known that Holidays such as Christmas , Easter, Halloween, New Year's etc...
are all Pagan Holidays and no where near Biblical. but Christians worldwide see no problem at all celebrating these obviously Pagan Holidays. Most of them celebrating INSIDE their own churches.
Now how wicked is that?
So in reality, 99% of "Christians" are really Pagans and don't even know it.
Well, you are obviously parsing words and trying to bait us and even maybe incur the wrath of some of our more devout Christians, but since I'm only a half-assed Christian at best, I say it's cool and even might make an interesting discussion.
Ya gotta remember (or did you ever even know in the first place?) that the very word "pagan" derives from the old Latin word "paganus" which simply referred to someone living "in a small rural village, or of the country." These people then worshipped the older, nature-based gods, as did the Romans, Greeks and Druids. (and our own Native Americans too).
They did NOT worship the Jews' God Yahweh, nor recognize Him to be the only God, instead of their pantheon of nature gods. They were polytheists rather than monotheists.
So....to say that 99% of Christians who believe in one God are pagans-at-heart is just plain wrong. Especially since long ago Christians sorta hijacked the name "pagan" to mean anyone who does not believe like they do. So a Christian cannot really be a pagan, can they? I't's like saying an atheist who celebrates Christmas for his kids' sake is really a Christian.
But yes! Many of the Christian holidays were borne from "pagan" festivals. The December 25 b-day for JC is totally wrong, as he was most likely borne in the late-spring, maybe the last week or so of May. The Dec. 25 date was used so as to collide with the pagan Saturnalia Festival.
And Easter is in no way Pagan, as it celebrates Christ's rising from the Dead. The bunny and egg parts of Easter are indeed drerived from pagan myths, but the meaning of Easter is 100% Christian.
All religions borrow from ones that preceded it. But the Christians quickly molded the meanings and significance of some of the pagan holidays to fit their own agendas and beliefs, So in that way they were actually trying to demolish the pagan belief system, not adhere to it.
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Last edited by june 7th; 07-18-2014 at 11:15 AM..
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