Sentences with phrase «pagan holidays which»

Not exact matches

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.

These are ALL taken directly from the pagan / heathen Yule holiday, which predate the arrival of Christianity in Europe.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

Christmas was a pagan holiday in which the ruling Christians adopted so that the pagans would become Christian (falling right near the winter solstice).

The Catholic church set the birth of Jesus to be at the same time of the pagan holidays of the Winter Solstice, which the Romans called Saturnalia.

It is a fact that Christians have squatted upon and absconded with holidays which were originally pagan.

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.

All Saints Day on November 1 is probably a sort of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 31.

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!

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

The date, itself, was a pagan holiday, which is why the specific day was picked.

Recent exhibitions include a collaboration with his wife, Joy Feasley, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, as part of Locally Localized Gravity in which the two built a solar oven in a greenhouse that was used in a celebration of the pagan holiday, Imbolc.