Sentences with phrase «pagan festivals»

I am Vaclav the Magnificent, with birthday on the sixth of May, the famous day for the generations to celebrate and rejoice, a day in the future years eclipsing Christmas and Hanukkah and Ramadan and all pagan festivals, born in a land far, far, far, far, far, far, far distance from here, a land of ancient and magnificent secrets, a land of enchanted knowledge passed down from the ages and from the ancients, a land of illusion (Russia!)

Christianity was just another sect of Judaism, until Constantine hijacked it by adding Greco - Roman mythology to it (e.g. Jesus human son of top god Jehovah replacing Hercules human son of top god Zeus), and pagan festivals (e.g. Christmas replacing Yule, All Saints Day replacing Halloween, Valentine's Day replacing Juno's day, Easter replacing harvest festival.

It was the successor of the pagan festivals, but still something new, because the news was so much more unambiguously good than anything the pagans ever heard.

They celebrated Yule in the winter ages before the Church took over the holiday to promote Jesus... All pagan festivals and holidays were given Christian meaning because the Church wanted to brainwash the masses and make assimilation easier!

I agree with you Jeremy in a sense, but I also agree with what Chrissy says, «I believe God is calling His bride out of the Harlot system and these pagan festivals are instigated by the Roman Catholicism, just as the changing of the Sabbath day was too.»

I have always observed these traditions but have felt uneasy about them and now this year have been convicted that it is not ok to celebrate these Pagan festivals» Come out of her my people and touch not the unclean thing».

We don't celebrate days of week or months of year so not the same as actually making preparation for the pagan festivals and feasts.

Many believe we celebrate Christmas on December 25 because the third century church Christianised the date on which some pagan festivals were observed.

Certainly Christians avoided pagan festivals.

He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.

Thus, ancient Greeks held pagan festivals to welcome Eostre and herald the onset of spring.

The Pagan festivals always coincided with the vernal Equinox on the 21st of March every year.

Those are all pagan festivals crept inside christainity.

Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival, marked the beginning of winter and was believed to be a night on which spirits could roam among the living.

I wish you and your loved ones a happy Easter or what was originally the pagan festival of fertility / spring.

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

Christmas was invented to counter the pagan festival of the birth of the sun - god.

Easter as a pagan festival coincides with the Jewish Passover.

If this is true, it wasn't Christianity that Christianised a pagan festival but a pagan emperor attempting to paganise a Christian festival that predated it by 30 years.

In the third century, some parts of the church celebrated Christmas on January 6, but during the following century the date was settled on December 25, the traditional date of a pagan festival of rebirth.

Oh and by the way, Christmas is a PAGAN festival, not a Christian one.

Again the act of Baptism comes from other religions and like the Church that decided to build on past pagan ground and to hijack the old pagan festival dates like Christmas and Easter, God draws us to Himself in a gentle way as He turns our old attitudes and ways upside down.

for the next 3 weeks Christians are celebrating the birth of a storybook character we don't even know existed, and celebrating it on a pagan festival because no - one knows when the character was born.

Out of that came Jesus's birthday on Dec. 25th which was originally the pagan festival day for Sol Invictus (the Victorious Sun) and the rest of the great fantasy story (see Pope Leo X's quote in the early 1600's... paraphrased: «It has served us well, this myth of Christ» — out of the mouth of a Pope no less).

Although they had no idea on which day Christ was born, their choice was not a coincidence; the date was already a pagan festival, which marked the birth of the sun god at -LSB-...]

And indeed the Africans dancing around their tribal fires in the opening credits are mirrored, in Ireland, by the annual pagan festival of Lughnasa, held up in the hills, also with bonfires.

By 1572, the «pagan festival» had been driven underground.

Not exact matches

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

It's a Pagan holiday celebrating the Spring equinox and a fertility festival (the rabbit and egg being leftover symbols that exist today).

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».

Well, we do know that the 25th of Dec was a festival observed by pagans.

@Dyslexic doG: In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the pagan Saturnalia festival hoping to recruit the pagan masses in with it.

Its roots: «The establishment of December 25 evolved not from biblical precedent,» says The Christmas Encyclopedia, «but from pagan Roman festivals held at year's end,» about the time of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

The church followed suit (for different reasons) by displacing the Jewish festivals with Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, and the pagan winter festival of the sun - god with Advent.

And biblical religion transformed «pagan» rites of spring and harvest into festivals celebrating historic events.

However, many of the party leaders, like Hans Schemm, and Otto Wagner, were far from happy about the use of Hitler Youth events to stage Pagan rituals so they complained to Hitler who ridiculed the youthful paganism by saying: «All that rubbish about the Thing places, the solstice festivals, the Midgard snake.»

Thus, according to Keener, «Christians may have later adopted December 25 as a time to celebrate Christmas in part to [fight against this] pagan Roman festival scheduled shortly before that time.»

And yet it may have done some good by borrowing from the Pagan world the old festival called Christmas.

The Catholics, he explained, were really good at converting pagans by appropriating their seasonal festivals for Christian purposes.

Historically, not all pagans followed the same traditions or celebrated the same kinds of festivals.

In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the pagan Saturnalia festival hoping to recruit the pagan masses in with it.

The Encyclopædia Britannica says that church leaders probably chose it «to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the «birthday of the unconquered sun,»» at the time of the winter solstice.

Of course, Emperor Constantine forced all the priests to combine pagan gods and festivals with the new Christian religion at the Council of Nicea in 325AD in order to consolidate his empire.

Yes, Christianity co-opted pagan winter solstice festivals in an attempt to bring pagans into the faith, but the vast majority of what we associate with modern day Christmas came about after this.

The nature motifs of the great festival, as known through the contemporary pagan religions, were retained and in some regards sublimated; but to them was added the dramatic affirmation that Yahweh is supremely master of history.

The famous saint had a feast day on February 14th coincided with the pagan fertility festival of the goddess Juno, also on this list.

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated in Britain and Ireland from Celtic harvest festivals which may have pagan roots and that this festival was Christianized as Halloween.

The early pagans celebrated the Winter Solstice by honoring those gods with a variety of festivals and rituals designed to curry the gods» favor and ensure the sun's speedy return.

I have included most of the main religious festivals for the Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Pagan religions.

By the 20th century it seems that Mothering Sunday had lapsed in much of Europe, and was never introduced to America, as the Puritans thought poorly of many festivals particularly those with pagan roots.