Comments on: Who Has the Greatest Investment in Christianity's Pagan Past? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/02/who-has-the-greatest-investment-in-christianitys-pagan-past.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Steve Hayes http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/02/who-has-the-greatest-investment-in-christianitys-pagan-past.html#comment-17103 Steve Hayes Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:09:24 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2497#comment-17103 One of the main sources for that kind of thinking is <I>The two Babylons</i> by Alexander Hislop, which was given to me as a source for a lot of very fanciful and a-historical theories. Though when I finally did manage to get hold of a copy, I found that it did not support those theories to quite the same extent as my interlocutors claimed that it did. The people who came up with this stuff were evangelical and/or fundamentalist Christians. On the other hand I have considerable sympathy for the child of a Jehovah's Witness who received a rather harsh punishment at school. She was asked a question in class: What does it mean when a groundhog sees its own shadow? And her reply was "It's back is to the sun." One of the main sources for that kind of thinking is The two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, which was given to me as a source for a lot of very fanciful and a-historical theories. Though when I finally did manage to get hold of a copy, I found that it did not support those theories to quite the same extent as my interlocutors claimed that it did. The people who came up with this stuff were evangelical and/or fundamentalist Christians.

On the other hand I have considerable sympathy for the child of a Jehovah’s Witness who received a rather harsh punishment at school. She was asked a question in class: What does it mean when a groundhog sees its own shadow? And her reply was “It’s back is to the sun.”

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