Sentences with phrase «pagan holidays into»

When it gets into the meat of the holiday, however, via a gaggle of historians telling how Christianity ground up all sorts of Pagan holidays into its easily - masticated, mealy host — well, then it's interesting.

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My mother told me that placing my faith in God was the answer / But then I hated God cause he gave my mother cancer / Killing her slow like the Feds did to the Blank Panthers / The genesis of genocide is like a Pagan religion / Carefully hidden, woven into the holidays of a Christian /

It was chosen because the King wanted to celebrate Christ and it coincided with the pagan holidays, therefore allowing the pagans their parties without causing them to riot — look into Saturnalia if you don't believe me

I don't mean that they have become Pagan, and we must «put Christ back into Christmas» to retake the holiday for Jesus.

Christian holidays ARE based of the seasons, but not all of them just the winter solstace and the spring solstace because when Christians were trying to convert Pagans into Christianity they figured it would be easier if the clebrations they had were around the same times.

I could go on, following Ivan's fine lead, and talk about the most depressing thing America can do and has done to Christmas is to make it less joyful, to domesticate or banalize it, to turn it into «Happy Holidays» that are neither pagan nor Christian.

At this time in history, the churches were receiving pagans into the church ranks, the pagan holidays were incorporated with the church so that no one was offended and to keep the pagans comfortable while learning our Savior, Jesus Christ's message of truth.

What might have eventually passed into oblivion (as all other ancient pagan holidays), is now a recurring celebration of eroticism, pre-marital sex, and fertility — all in the name of «Saint Valentine.»