RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
December 1, 2014 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2014 at 5:17 pm by Smaug.)
Quote:No, they just dropped it on top of the old holidays hoping to crush them. Did the job too. Nobody celebrates Saturnalia anymore.
As far as I remember, it was a recruitment move (not a bad move for those times to say frankly). By the way, when you look how may minor holidies there are ('saint' days) that replaced older pagan ones you start to wonder why Christianity is considered monotheistic. If you look at Orthodox Christians for example you may notice that many believers treat the saints exactly as pagans treated their deities (there seem to be patron saints for every natural phenomenon encountered in day-to-day life).
