Sentences with phrase «pagan holidays of»

The Catholic church set the birth of Jesus to be at the same time of the pagan holidays of the Winter Solstice, which the Romans called Saturnalia.

The religious also don't want to realize that «Christmas» was stolen from the Pagan holiday of «Winter Solstice».

It could be worded better, but Easter in this post is in reference to the resurrection of Jesus, not the pagan holiday of «where's the eggs?».

Valentine's Day originally had it's origins in the Roman pagan holiday of Lupercalia Day.

Not exact matches

When Christians woke up to the fact people were celebrating the holiday with pagan symbols most of them got phased out.

Easter may have its origins as a pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.

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 /

Christmas is a pagan holiday, on a pagan date for the winter solstice, Easter began as a celebration of the pagan god Ester.

Heck, most of the holiday christian covet so much is pagan in nature and they don't even know it.

Oh the poor persecuted christians that don't even realize a good 90 % of their so called holiday comes from the pagans.

All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.

Oester is a pagan goddess of ferility and her holiday fell at the same time we have Easter today.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

THE BIBLE DOES NT TEACH THE OBSERVANCE OF THOSE PAGAN HOLIDAYS PERIOD!

These are ALL taken directly from the pagan / heathen Yule holiday, which predate the arrival of Christianity in Europe.

I know of no one (certainly not christians) who use the holiday to worship pagan gods.

Of course, one of the things he struggled with was what to do with all of these pagan holidayOf course, one of the things he struggled with was what to do with all of these pagan holidayof the things he struggled with was what to do with all of these pagan holidayof these pagan holidays.

There is usually lots of controversy surrounding Christmas, whether or not it is a pagan holiday, whether or not Jesus was born on December 25, and whether or not Christians should celebrate Christmas, and if so, how.

I know of none of my atheist friends who celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs and know of no Christians who don't except maybe the JW's, but for the sake of argument I will concede that if they do then yes, they are also co-opting a pagan holiday.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

I'm Pagan — I don't mind the parades or the parodies everyone makes of our holidays — all are welcome here.

An atheist hates the thought of Christmas because of its religious inflection but will celebrate the holiday with its Pagan purpose.

(And please don't come back with how the observed date of X-Mas was chose based on pre-existing Pagan holidays - I'm obviously ahead of you there.)

Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

Given the things that I've said about pagan elements in the Christian church, this might surprise you, but the old pagan holidays are actually good occasions to contrast the message of Yehoshua with the old pagan beliefs.

In fact, I wrote a whole book proving that Jesus was not born in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays....

I have never understood the point of looking for evil, pagan roots or whatever in holidays so we can avoid them.

Do you know of the pagan and evil backgrounds of those holidays?

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

So today we have Easter, Christmas, Valantines Day, Ground Hogs day, all previous Pagan Holidays converted and Christianized not to mention packaged and merchandized We also celebrate Halloween which is the Death of the Sun god in Pagan belief.

Though they don't say it, I imagine the authors are against Christmas and Easter as well, since both of these holidays are steeped in pagan cultic worship practices.

All Saints Day on November 1 is probably a sort of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 3of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 3Of The Year, which is October 31.

I'm not Christian anymore, but I celebrate it as a family day, because you know, quite frankly, we need at least one of those each year (and besides, whatever name it has, it was co-opted by Christians from a much older, pagan holiday, so it's fair game).

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.

So if people truly want to rid themselves of all things pagan, they need to start not with their holidays and traditions, but with their theology.

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We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

The physical practices and times of year do have parallels with pagan holidays.

Horus: Egyptian, 6000 BC Dionysus: Greek, 1500 BC Attis: Greek, 1200 BC Mithra: Zoroastrian, 600 BC Krishna: Hindu, 400 BC Jesus: Christian, 30 AD A) Born on Dec. 25 — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus (by way of plagiarizing a Pagan holiday B) Virgin Birth — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus C) Sign of Star in the East — Horus, Krishna, Jesus D) Adorned by 3 Kings — Horus, Jesus E) Teacher at age 12 — Horus, Mithra, Jesus F) Ministry started at 30 — Horus, Jesus G) 12 Disciples — Horus, Mithra, Jesus H) Traveled with Disciples Performing Miracles — Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus I) AKA The Truth, the Light, God's Shepherd — Horus, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus J) Betrayed — Horus, Mithra, Jesus K) Crucified — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus L) Buried 3 days — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus M) Resurrected — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus

But if you do, then there is a lot to be learned from pagan holidays, and a lot of joy and festivity to be celebrated.

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It occurs to me that of the major Western holidays, Halloween is the only one that originated with Christendom but got handed over to the pagans.

Halloween is the holiday equivalent of Wicca — a 20th century invention that pretends to have ancient pagan roots.

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

But the fact is, there is a pagan holiday for this time of year, and the ancient church usurped it to bring focus on the Christian event at this time of year — the Ressurection of Christ.

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

A tree nor Santa have anything to do with christianity and if you knew anything about your holiday you would know that it is based off of pagan tradition largely.

Some traditions of Christmas were taken from pagan celebrations, but the holiday itself is about the birth of Christ.