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I know its a bit early for this but ...
I know its a bit early for this but what is the real birth date of Jesus? Is the December 25th the birthday of other Pagan Gods and Godesses? What symbols in Jesus birth were Pagan? The stars, the fish , wise men Virgin birth etc........?????????
So are Atheists celebrating Christ's mass, when they celebrate Christmas, or are "Christians" celebrating a pagan holiday that was adopted by the 4th century "Christians"?Here's a good film. It has a lot of the history of Christmas and neither condemns Christmas strictly as Pagan but does define the Pagan roots and the history of Christmas and of Americans and Christmas.
So are Atheists celebrating Christ's mass, when they celebrate Christmas, or are "Christians" celebrating a pagan holiday that was adopted by the 4th century "Christians"?
So Atheists are celebrating birthdays and honorary customs of gods...The pagan holidays came first so I'll leave it to your judgement to decide who is copying who.
And atheist dont have a mid winter (or any holiday). Those pagan festivals were/are usually in the name of a deity even if that deity is a tree, an animal, the earth ot something intangible like the abrahamic god.
On a personal basis our family has observed several mid winter celebrations over the years. The kids have settled on saturnalia, it lasts longer, they get presents everyday and on the last day one of them is chosen to be king/queen queen for the day.
In an effort to gain pagan converts the Roman Catholic clergy in the fourth century after Christ's death, took in this pagan Saturnalia on December 25 and sponsored it as the “mass of Christ” or “Christ-mass.” Christmas, is therefore nothing more than a carbon copy of the pagan Saturnalia under a new name. This is generally admitted by historical and religious scholars.
Easter too fits this description. Easter was a fertility goddess whose emblems were rabbits and eggs.
Roman Emperor Constantine was an astute politician... The reason why he declared Roman Catholicism to be the state religion in the first place was because he wanted to consolidate his religiously divided empire.
So Atheists are celebrating birthdays and honorary customs of gods...
A child protection worker goes to a party where the highlight of the party is the abuse of a child. What do you call that worker? A HYPOCRITE.Hey, even an atheist likes a good party
A child protection worker goes to a party where the highlight of the party is the abuse of a child. What do you call that worker? A HYPOCRITE.
"We have no belief in gods, but we don't mind participating in parties held in their honor. Meanwhile, we enjoy bashing the ignorant irrational people who worship them." Ha Ha.
Hypocrisy is not bad at all. LOL
There is no consensus on the issue though.
Easter was dated from Passover.
Also the name of the goddess only works in English/German as Easter is usually named from Pascha, from the Hebrew Pesach. Also there is scholarly debate about regarding whether or not Eostre even existed in popular culture or was largely created by the Venerable Bede.
Actually chirstmas is in honour of jcs anonymous birthday, not gods, i thought as a follower of Christ you would know that
Prior to that most mid winter celebrations were in honour of the end of shorter days, the transition to longer and longer days, the greening of nature, the start of planting to survive the next winter
But if you want to delusion yourself to massage your ego because you know zilch about mid winter festivals just so you can call name then then sure, its gods party? Have a good one christian
And can i ask why you are so fascinated by child abuse?
Ain't nutting like a party ya'll.ChristineM said:Those pagan festivals were/are usually in the name of a deity even if that deity is a tree, an animal, the earth ot something intangible like the abrahamic god.
What symbols in Jesus birth were Pagan? The stars, the fish , wise men Virgin birth etc........?????????
The name "Easter" is not in the Bible for a very good reason
it was the name of the fertility goddess whose festival was 'adopted' by the church and substituted for the memorial that Christians were commanded to hold on the date of the anniversary of Christ's death, not as an excuse to have themselves a holiday.
They hardly changed a thing.....they are there for all to see. They did not even bother to change the name. The fertility symbols today are made of chocolate......does that somehow make them acceptable to God?
So are Atheists celebrating Christ's mass, when they celebrate Christmas, or are "Christians" celebrating a pagan holiday that was adopted by the 4th century "Christians"?
So Atheists are celebrating birthdays and honorary customs of gods...
A child protection worker goes to a party where the highlight of the party is the abuse of a child. What do you call that worker? A HYPOCRITE.
"We have no belief in gods, but we don't mind participating in parties held in their honor. Meanwhile, we enjoy bashing the ignorant irrational people who worship them." Ha Ha.
Hypocrisy is not bad at all. LOL