Sentences with phrase «pagan celebrations»

Was it because non-Christians viewed the Solstice as the rebirth of the sun, or possibly was it because he wanted to lure them from pagan celebrations to their religious one?

Kirk Cameron wants to rewrite history and erase the facts of Christmas evolving from pagan celebrations.

Uh, you know that Christmas and Easter were dates for pagan celebrations and that Christians selected those dates to make conversion of pagans easier?

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

As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.

You might notice that other major Christian holidays also coincide with pagan celebrations during the year.

Because the Roman Catholics wanted it to fit in with the pagan celebrations so they would be more interested in practicing their form of Christianity.

In fact, the Puritans of early colonial times shunned Christmas as they not only rejected pagan celebrations but also Catholicism.

As for the authors speculation that Yashua could rebrand pagan celebrations to glorify God it is absurd.

The reasons for the seasons — you mean the early Christian church co-opting pagan celebrations in order to gain converts?

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

As you say Christmas as we now celebrate it, on December 25th, is the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice, (as opposed to a celebration of Christ's birth).

So, how did Saturnalia, this pagan celebration of the longest night of the year get turned into Christmas?

This is a kid - centered family event, not a pagan celebration.

Build a Sukkot and then had dinner... then explain the Sokkot when asked, forget using a pagan celebration...

It was a way for Christians to participate or meld the pagan celebration with their own beliefs.

It was at the behest of the Catholic church that Christmas became an accepted tradition, though it is the combination of the Roman festival Saturnalia (observed from Dec 17 - 24) and the celebration of Mithra, Persian god of light (observed on Dec 25) The Catholic church continues to observe this pagan celebration, rather than following God's words to «touch nothing unclean».

@thecollegeadmissionsguru and others: «Christmas was originally the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice».

Easter too was created from a pagan celebration.

Britannica and Catholic's Encyclopedias clearly indicate that Christmas is a pagan celebration created to attract other religions to Catholicism.

The ancient church attempted Christ's Mass to redeem a favorite pagan celebration day and bring thousands of pagans into the church.

Easter was originally the pagan celebration of the arrival of spring and named after the goddess of fertility (aka Ishtar, Astarte, Esther, etc.).

Carnival is a pagan celebration during which time people can indulge in bodily pleasures that they will soon have to give up during lent.

Not exact matches

The return to colorful and enjoyable pagan «Germanic» traditions promised to revitalize family celebration.

So because these ideas and traditions had a lengthy history, Nazi propagandists were able to easily cast Christmas as a celebration of pagan German nationalism.

Official celebrations might mention a supreme being, but they more prominently featured solstice and «light» rituals that supposedly captured the holiday's pagan origins.

Muslims understand that Halloween has Pagan roots and in several fashions is a celebration of things we believe is wrong or bad such as fear of this world, death, and mythical false things.

No, Easter is the celebration of a pagan goddess that the christians stole in order to convert more people to their religion.

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

(Christmas, Easter — great observances, but the celebration dates coincide with pagan holidays.

The Christian church however, changed the Pagan festival from a celebration of spring to a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

This celebration was not in the Bible, it was pagan, and therefore heresy.

Christmas was usurped by the Church to replace an older pagan holiday celebration.

Jehovah's Witnesses recognized that Christmas was pagan in 1926 and discarded it as a religious celebration.

many celebrations have pagan beginnings but religion has found a way to share in the celebrations with their own faith.

Neither cynical nor saccharine, it is a vision built on both penitence and celebration before God, beckoning pagan and pilgrim alike.

If you don't believe you should participate in Halloween, Christmas or other «pagan» celebrations, then don't.

Many thousands of years ago, ALL people were pagans, do human civilization naturally has pagan echoes mixed in with more recent celebrations.

And if you want to get real technical, the celebration on this particular day doesn't really have to do with Jesus either, it was a day the Pagans celebrated and the Christians changed what the celebration was about, so it's not 2000 years old either.

It was easier for early missionaries to convert pagans my modifying existing celebrations than to throw too many new concepts at them.

She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.»

The Church CHOSE to celebrate the birth of Christ on December 25th, mostly in order to co-opt the pagan winter solstice celebrations and ease the conversion of pagans into Christianity.

«It's a celebration of all polytheistic religions,» Pagan Pride Day coordinator Mike Avery said.

That's fine that the early Christians wanted to replace the pagan holiday with a celebration of the incarnation of God.

The pagan winter solstice celebration was the reason for the season not Jesus Christ.

That said, I don't consider an observation of Yule (fact: this was a Germanic pagan tradition LONG before the birth of Christ) or Eostre / Ishtar / Easter (all sorts of convoluted Roman and pagan traditions regarding celebration of spring and death / resurrection were happening around this time of year prior to Christ's existence) to be favoring one religion over another, since so many different religions are involved in those mixes.

Birthday celebrations are a pagan tradition.

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.»

And for the climax, Mann stages a glorious mano - a-mano gladiatorial combat amidst a grotesque celebration in the Roman forum as decadent as any Cecil B. DeMille pagan spectacle.

Our forebears rightly noted that the choice of December 25th with a calculated marketing decision meant to draw pagans away from one celebration and into another.