Not exact matches
Heck, most of the
holiday christian covet
so much is
pagan in nature and they don't even know it.
Oh the poor persecuted christians that don't even realize a good 90 % of their
so called
holiday comes from the
pagans.
There is usually lots of controversy surrounding Christmas, whether or not it is a
pagan holiday, whether or not Jesus was born on December 25, and whether or not Christians should celebrate Christmas, and if
so, how.
Christmas was a
pagan holiday in which the ruling Christians adopted
so that the
pagans would become Christian (falling right near the winter solstice).
Im waiting for more attacks on Christians in your articles, I'm sure Christmas is coming
so you can dissect that
holiday and search for
pagan roots as you do in everything.
I have never understood the point of looking for evil,
pagan roots or whatever in
holidays so we can avoid them.
So even the «Biblical»
holidays were redeemed from
pagan practices.
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.
I'm not Christian anymore, but I celebrate it as a family day, because you know, quite frankly, we need at least one of those each year (and besides, whatever name it has, it was co-opted by Christians from a much older,
pagan holiday,
so it's fair game).
So if people truly want to rid themselves of all things
pagan, they need to start not with their
holidays and traditions, but with their theology.
At this time in history, the churches were receiving
pagans into the church ranks, the
pagan holidays were incorporated with the church
so that no one was offended and to keep the
pagans comfortable while learning our Savior, Jesus Christ's message of truth.