Christmas.....pagan?

[brass neck]

I love Christmas, but everything i love about it seems more pagan than christian to me, greenery, giving, father Christmas, party's,

how about Easter i thought.... birth, eggs, chickens, reproduction etc...seems very pagan to me


it strikes me that the Christians were like the Borg off star trek, taking over, assimilate and to do so they jumped upon popular beliefs and festivals, took them as there own and gained a foothold.


makes me laugh when you get Christians who dont do Halloween because its pagan......

 

[mat]

I wa bought up not to celebrate it.

All i see is marketing and cynisim with it.

 

[Televators]

I wa bought up not to celebrate it.

All i see is marketing and cynisim with it.

You had no presents when you were little?

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It all becomes clear...

 

[Banned Tosspot]

I wa bought up not to celebrate it.

All i see is marketing and cynisim with it.

Jehovah?

 

[blumoonrisen]

it strikes me that the Christians were like the Borg off star trek, taking over, assimilate and to do so they jumped upon popular beliefs and festivals, took them as there own and gained a foothold..

Only when I see cube shaped churches....would I accept that comparison..

 

[peahead]

True, nothing original and all assimilated. Lets put Mithras back into Christmas!

 

[yep]

You could always go to the mass of Christ!

 

[BimboBob]

You could always go to the mass of Christ!

Or sit at home thrusting burning matches into your eyelids.

 

[yep]

Whatever!

 

[goose72]

it strikes me that the Christians were like the Borg off star trek, taking over, assimilate and to do so they jumped upon popular beliefs and festivals, took them as there own and gained a foothold.


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No shit Sherlock? Bugger me - that could be the reason why so many churches are built on former burial mounds, why the Mystery plays superceded the former mummers' plays after the church loathly accepted it would have to allow the proles to continue their traditions following mass protests when it barred them, and why every Christian festival conveniently coincides with a previous pagan one. You might just be onto something.