Sentences with phrase «roman pagan culture»
The early Catholic church taught (added) many of these «similarities» to get the current Roman pagan culture to worship Jesus and the Saints as basically the same as the Roman Gods.
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Most Christians think this is wrong, but what they don't realize is that they have simply chosen different «Pagan» traditions to incorporate... traditions that came from Graeco - Roman culture.
Third, the pagans this holiday was stolen from wasn't atheistic, but polytheistic in nature (greco - roman culture).
When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.