http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/11/pagan-news-of-note_20.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/11/pagan-news-of-note_20.html#comment-791 Morgaine Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:39:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/11/pagan-news-of-note-13.html#comment-791 Uh - they stole everything else from Rome, so why lose the pagentry, too? If they get rid of everything in Christianity that has Pagan origins, there'll soon be no Christianity. Uh – they stole everything else from Rome, so why lose the pagentry, too? If they get rid of everything in Christianity that has Pagan origins, there’ll soon be no Christianity.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/11/pagan-news-of-note_20.html#comment-790 The Emerson Avenger Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:28:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/11/pagan-news-of-note-13.html#comment-790 "What shall we do? . . . Take the Scriptures as our guide and refuse to be pressured into conformity to paganism practiced in the name of Christ."ROTFLMU*UOWasn't it Christians who took over pagan solstice holidays in order to pressure pagans into conformity with Christianity? Didn't Christians build their churches right on top of pagan sacred sites? If Christians want to distance themselves from any pagan associations that they adopted in the first place perhaps they should start by finding a different, and more historically relevant, date to celebrate the birth of Jesus rather than the pagan celebration of the winter solstice that Christians adopted and adapted to their own religiious purposes. . . “What shall we do? . . . Take the Scriptures as our guide and refuse to be pressured into conformity to paganism practiced in the name of Christ.”ROTFLMU*UOWasn’t it Christians who took over pagan solstice holidays in order to pressure pagans into conformity with Christianity? Didn’t Christians build their churches right on top of pagan sacred sites? If Christians want to distance themselves from any pagan associations that they adopted in the first place perhaps they should start by finding a different, and more historically relevant, date to celebrate the birth of Jesus rather than the pagan celebration of the winter solstice that Christians adopted and adapted to their own religiious purposes. . .

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