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About Blog We're all made of mud and magic... I've been experimenting with combining science with Pagan ritual in a group environment.

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The ritual of lighting candles on the Christmas tree was said to create an atmosphere of «pagan demon magic» that would subsume the Star of Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus in feelings of «Germanness.»

The fact is, Christianity was pretty smart to incorporate many of the early Pagan celebrations in their rituals.

Just because someone who prays to pagan gods in certain way, then decides to pray to the true God through Christ in the same ritual that they were so ingrained from childhood, doesn't mean the person moved back to pagan gods.

I think the pagans should be the ones taking offense at the absurdity of christianity and how it walked in, stole their rituals and forced them to convert.

To Lamar H and everybody else out there Do you happen to open the bible and compare the christian rituals against ancient pagan rituals (surprise surprise)?!? To everybody else, count to ten and look into your lives, maybe you'll find out that you do nt live your faith as you preach in these forums.

Women can lead rituals (and in many traditions are actually above men) and participate as equals (or superiors) in 99.9 % of all «Pagan» traditions.

There are many Pagans who continue to embrace Yahweh and Jesus in their rituals; they just supplement them with other gods.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

On the other hand, Paul prohibited Christians from actually participating in the sacrificial rituals of pagan worship.

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.

William Barclay, in his commentary on the Gospel of John, pointed out similarities between pagan rituals and the baptism of John, as well as pagan lore resembling the Virgin Birth.

It is curious that many Christian rituals, practices, and holidays have their roots in pagan practices.

In Paul's letter to the Romans, (Rom 14) he mentions the problem of those who were concerned about eating food connected with pagan rituals or keeping special days.

However, to denounce a Christian tradition or practice as rooted in paganism simply because a similar practice appears in ancient pagan rituals is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.

is in dealing with pagan rituals performed by those living around the Isrealites.

Um, Christianity stole every ceremony in their belief structure, often mimicking pagan rituals to sway people over to their side using confusion.

Do a little research and you will find that Jesus most definitely was not born on Dec 25 and that these traditions were pagan rituals that the church gave Christian names to in order to make the newly conquered converts easier to control.

EVERY one of your holidays / practices has it's roots in pagan rituals.

The cult of Moloch is mentioned in the Bible as an example of a terrible pagan god with murderous worship rituals and, thank to Dante's Inferno, has become a defacto descriptor for any cult that practices human sacrifice.

If he truly believed in demons (as every well - catechized Catholic should), he would never risk «provoking the Lord to jealousy» by participating in such a sinful and spiritually dangerous pagan ritual.

At their worst they became very like the pagan rituals which the Bible text holds not to be pleasing to God or appropriate to men, occasions for offering sacrifices in order to bribe God and buy off his anger.

Much of the symbols and rituals in Christianity have pagan roots, and I believe that they have been redeemed by Jesus, in a similar fashion as we.

They visited women isolated in pagan households and assisted in the ritual of baptism of women, especially in the prebaptismal anointment.

In Pagan traditions, fasting is not a reflection of suffering, nor is it meant to remind us of anything more important than self, it is a means of preparation of self, usually for some ritual.

Rabbits, birds, eggs, and flowering plants are the mainstays of springtime symbolism, and appeared in pagan rituals all across Europe.

More than as seasoning for food, salt has been used as medicine, as a ceremonial ingredient in religious and pagan rituals, and even as currency.

This traditional slavic pagan wedding, although set in September, is filled with festive cheer and so many gorgeous rituals and traditions.

No more so, however, than the decision to end things with a pagan ritual and a swordfight that finds the love interest treated most foully before she throws herself in front of an assassin's bullet.

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

[Platform: Nintendo 3DS; Release: Summer 2016]-- In the critically acclaimed cult hit Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of brutal murders once took placIn the critically acclaimed cult hit Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of brutal murders once took placin a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of brutal murders once took place.

In Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took placIn Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took placin a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took place.

[Platform: Nintendo 3DS] In the cult hit horror adventure Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took placIn the cult hit horror adventure Corpse Party, players take control of a group of Japanese high school students who inadvertently engage in a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took placin a pagan ritual and find themselves inexplicably transported into a whole other space: an inescapable echo of a long - since demolished school building where a series of gruesome murders once took place.

Bilbo was featured in Outsiders & Co (1996); Obsessive Visions: Art Outside the Mainstream (2001); Wandering Lines ii (2012); and Between Worlds: Rituals & Pagan Rites (2013).

Thek's art contains each of those elements, plus the use of ritual in his installations, in the surrealist and «baroque» aspects of faux - pagan - theatrical processions.

Since 1991, Wiccan chaplains have assisted prisoners in holding rituals such as sabbat observances and have provided consultation services to inmates and to other religious chaplains in order to foster a better sense of the faith and paths of Wiccans and Pagans.