Sentences with phrase «with pagan holidays»

The physical practices and times of year may have parallels with pagan holidays, but if used to celebrate Christianity, then they sort of become Christian practice.

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

It was chosen because the King wanted to celebrate Christ and it coincided with the pagan holidays, therefore allowing the pagans their parties without causing them to riot — look into Saturnalia if you don't believe me

(Christmas, Easter — great observances, but the celebration dates coincide with pagan holidays.

Not exact matches

The holiday has pagan roots and is most often celebrated with bright colors and dancing around a «maypole» or a colorful pole decorated with ribbons.

When Christians woke up to the fact people were celebrating the holiday with pagan symbols most of them got phased out.

Let's be honest, with the drinking the brawling over stuff in the stores, this holiday is more like the pagan one that the christians stole from them how many thousand years ago.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

How long will you continue involve yourselves in holidays with pagan origin?

Of course, one of the things he struggled with was what to do with all of these pagan holidays.

I know of none of my atheist friends who celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs and know of no Christians who don't except maybe the JW's, but for the sake of argument I will concede that if they do then yes, they are also co-opting a pagan holiday.

An atheist hates the thought of Christmas because of its religious inflection but will celebrate the holiday with its Pagan purpose.

(3) Yes, the date was moved from the traditional date (March) to the new tradional date (December) to overlap some pagan holidays — again, to help convert the pagans who were more likely to convert when they didn't have to give up their feasting, singing, and gift giving with conversion.

(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.)

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.

Most Christians want to stay as far away from Pagan holidays as they can, thinking that participating in pagan holidays is participation with the wPagan holidays as they can, thinking that participating in pagan holidays is participation with the wpagan holidays is participation with the world.

For example, my family I celebrate Christmas with as much gusto as possible... because Jesus has redeemed the pagan holiday.

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.

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

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.

Horus: Egyptian, 6000 BC Dionysus: Greek, 1500 BC Attis: Greek, 1200 BC Mithra: Zoroastrian, 600 BC Krishna: Hindu, 400 BC Jesus: Christian, 30 AD A) Born on Dec. 25 — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus (by way of plagiarizing a Pagan holiday B) Virgin Birth — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus C) Sign of Star in the East — Horus, Krishna, Jesus D) Adorned by 3 Kings — Horus, Jesus E) Teacher at age 12 — Horus, Mithra, Jesus F) Ministry started at 30 — Horus, Jesus G) 12 Disciples — Horus, Mithra, Jesus H) Traveled with Disciples Performing Miracles — Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus I) AKA The Truth, the Light, God's Shepherd — Horus, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus J) Betrayed — Horus, Mithra, Jesus K) Crucified — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus L) Buried 3 days — Horus, Attis, Mithra, Jesus M) Resurrected — Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Jesus

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!

It occurs to me that of the major Western holidays, Halloween is the only one that originated with Christendom but got handed over to the pagans.

Its a pagan holiday for the winter solstice and has everything to do with sun worship and nothing to do with Jesus.

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.

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

You might notice that other major Christian holidays also coincide with pagan celebrations during the year.

A tree nor Santa have anything to do with christianity and if you knew anything about your holiday you would know that it is based off of pagan tradition largely.

Many hypocrites do these pagan holidays with glee, and cheer, while ignoring those who can't even afford to do them, or have pains, deprivations, lost, and suffering, such selfish folly.

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.

That's fine that the early Christians wanted to replace the pagan holiday with a celebration of the incarnation of God.

Don't believe it's true... spend this holiday season decorating with Pagan or Jewish symbols... put them on your car... see how many people deface, destroy or steal these items...

What with Nightcrawler hiding eggs in interdimensional hidey holes, Beast very excitedly explaining the Pagan origins of the holiday's traditions, and Deadpool just throwing stuffed rabbits at everyone, it's an eventful day.

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.