RE: Important questions...
August 1, 2009 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2009 at 4:41 pm by Overmars.)
(August 1, 2009 at 5:26 am)Craveman Wrote: 4: What is xmas, easter and the other bank holidays really? Wasn't xmas a pagan celebration for a Persian god and "cleverly used" by the Christian faith to convert it to Christ's birtday?
To make Christianity more popular among the heathen people some elements of pagan cults(symbols, holidays) were adapted to Christianity. The church thought that this way they could get more believers. For example the eggs that symbolize Easter were seen by Persians as a symbol of fertility. Some say that Christmas was set on 25th December so it would correspond with a Roman holiday or with the winter festivals from pagan Scandinavia. Some the most known Christmas symbols have pagan roots: the Christmas tree and Santa Claus have some Scandinavian pagan origins. This new elements brought a lot of people to the Christian church because, making a new religion more popular for the common people.
Personally, it's not God I dislike, it's his fan club I can't stand.
