This sounds like some sort of
ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.
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.
The ancient pagan rituals were still «god» based....
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.
Not exact matches
Easter co-ming from
ancient pagan fertility
rituals as stated, not sure how that's fit's into the
ancient Passover Seder meal of the Jews...?
I suspect your church, like all of them, are offshoots of the
pagan rituals you all stole from the
ancients.
Willing to celebrate and embrace a holiday that was stolen by the Catholics, from the
Pagans, a
ritual that has trickled on down to the Protestants over the last 300 years, which has more to do with
ancient s - ex worship than with anything else!
Works will reference elements as disparate as
pagan ritual, archaeological excavations, the art of corn dolly making, mimicry, the carnivalesque and theatre,
ancient stone monuments such as Stonehenge, and Samuel Beckett's televised work Quad 1981.