Sentences with phrase «pagan mystery religions»
And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual — the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of «God - eating» — were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.
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In addition, the remarkable similarities between Christianity and other Mystery Religions of the time suggest that Christanity was an evolutionary hybrid of Jewish Messianism with pagan Savior God mythology.
It was (and is) a pagan - based mystery cult that due to an accident in history (i.e. the Roman - Jewish War 66 - 70 CE, during which Jesus» original sect called «the Nazoreans» ceased to exist) has become Christianity, a non-Jewish and anti-Jewish religion.
Particulary troubling is the way that Rome has pandered to (committed fornication with) pagan religions (Mystery Babylon) for over 2,000 years.
It is beyond dispute that postbiblical Christianity took over many elements from ancient metaphysics and ethics, the oriental - Hellenistic mystery religions, and the hermetic and neo-Platonic mysticism, and even from popular pagan piety and legal wisdom.