Sentences with phrase «pagan holiday»

Some people still celebrate the old Pagan holidays of the winter solstice, where this originally came from.

Most Christian holidays began as pagan holidays.

Valentine's Day was a «Chrisitanized» version of a February pagan holiday celebrating eroticism (sexual lust) and fertility.

Christians have been telling us to «celebrate Jesus» on this stolen Pagan holiday for centuries.

If origins did matter, then christians would not celebrate Christmas or Easter because both are based on pagan holidays.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

They were just co-opted from pagan holidays and do not require worship in magic man in the sky to have fun on those days.

Both Christmas and Easter started there as well... They are pagan holidays which have been redeemed.

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

Instead we celebrate pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter.

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.»

I don't see them upset at pagan holidays.

If so, what does this imply about other holidays, even pagan holidays?

No it's not your Christ wasn't even born in December it was stolen from other pagan holidays, especially the winter Solstice.

The whole point was to convert people and the early christians were having difficulty convincing people to give up their old holidays so they moved the celebration days to the already existing pagan holidays.

Well before Easter was associated with the zombification of your deity, it was a widely celebrated pagan holiday marking the rebirth and renewal of spring.

(And please don't come back with how the observed date of X-Mas was chose based on pre-existing Pagan holidays - I'm obviously ahead of you there.)

Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.

However, please know that there are some Christians who do not follow pagan traditions or observe pagan holidays.

Speaking of which, I would not argue that the Jewish holidays are for the Jews only, but did you know that many of them (possibly all of them) had their roots in Egyptian and Mesopotamian pagan holidays before the Jewish people ever started practicing them?

Pagan holidays reveal a longing for what was lost.

Pagan holidays continued to be practiced and observed, but they were adopted and adapted by Christianity, and given new meaning and interpretations that fit better with Christian theology and ideas.

No, I mean that they were originally Pagan holidays, which became Christian holidays.

So today we have Easter, Christmas, Valantines Day, Ground Hogs day, all previous Pagan Holidays converted and Christianized not to mention packaged and merchandized We also celebrate Halloween which is the Death of the Sun god in Pagan belief.

Christmas is a white washed pagan holiday and is not found any were in the bible.

Easter, Halloween, Christmas - none of those are in the bible and all of them were pagan holidays so why do those who call themselves Christians» follow such practices or become offended when this is pointed out?

Second, the early Chatholic church often took pagan holidays and used them for Christian holidays.

Perhaps we should call the evangelicals bluff... let's lobby for national recognition of some of the more esoteric pagan holidays and see what kind of backlash that generates.

Valentine's Day originally had it's origins in the Roman pagan holiday of Lupercalia Day.

When it gets into the meat of the holiday, however, via a gaggle of historians telling how Christianity ground up all sorts of Pagan holidays into its easily - masticated, mealy host — well, then it's interesting.

While Trick» r Treat is ostensibly out to tackle the problem of this wonderfully pagan holiday, other than suggesting that if you don't give treats and keep your jack - o» - lantern lit you'll get killed by a pumpkinheaded kid, it doesn't really offer much in the way of history.

The Evolution of Christmas This site explains the links between Christmas and early pagan holidays, such as the Winter Solstice.

Christians renamed pagan holidays and still celebrate them.

The physical practices and times of year do have parallels with pagan holidays.

But if you do, then there is a lot to be learned from pagan holidays, and a lot of joy and festivity to be celebrated.

(Men wrote the books) Why is christianity's big holidays blatantly based on pagan holidays?

TG: Better to have some fun on co-opted pagan holiday than live as boring clones who pretend even our birthdays don't exist like Jehovah's Witnesses do.

Given the things that I've said about pagan elements in the Christian church, this might surprise you, but the old pagan holidays are actually good occasions to contrast the message of Yehoshua with the old pagan beliefs.

Looking ahead: Very few people probably know that Easter began as a pagan holiday.

First off it was a pagan holiday and Christ was likely born in the spring so it was the Christians that latched onto an ancient pagan holiday not the other way around.

Hey history student drop outs, the season is and always was a pagan holiday until your most holy and devout Constantine tried to unify his empire by fusing Christ to a pagan holiday.

Easter may have its origins as a pagan holiday... but Catholics... which are a branch of Christianity, view Easter as the holiest of days... starting on Good Friday when Jesus was executed to his rebirth on Sunday.

Bring it back to being the pagan holiday it once was and quit trying to revise history.