(June 20, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Won2blv Wrote: So me and rhythms who I have a love/hate relationship with got into about amalgamation of pagan festivities into christian doctrines. I said that Jehovah's witnesses have gotten rid of the pagan customs in their modern day beliefs but he said that we're full of them. I would like to know what they are. And if it goes back to hellenism and how the jews started it around 2 B.C.E. then thats fine too.
Seems to me, that any religion that has a dying and rising god-man, has pagan beliefs, since pagan dying and rising god-men predated Jesus.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
