ALL of the major holidays are pagan, which is why true Christians (like us) don't celebrate them. Catholics are NOT Christian and never were. Get your facts straight, please.
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So you don't celebrate Easter or Christmas?
They started out pagan and were swallowed hard by the christians.
Catholics were the only christians before the reformations and splits from the main church body.
So, wrong. Get your facts straight, please.
Independant Fundamental Baptists, Church of Christ members, and Calvinists all top the Fundie food chain. The only problem is, if you belong to either of the three sects, the members of the other two sects will consider your sect a "cult".
Yes, yes, yes - that's how we pagans take over the world!
Hope everybody had a great Beltaine! :) (that's May day for you, that's when the witches meet to dance and fornicae with the devil! :rolleyes: )
Except, by the sheer fact that they worship Jesus as divine and believe in the Christian God, they ARE Christian. And the Protestant (even Baptist) denominations branched off from them.
Get YOUR facts straight, please.
This quote made me burst out laughing - someone is clearly unaware of the fact that Christmas is celebrated as Christ's birthday.
And honestly, again with the whole "Catholics Aren't True Christians!" bollocks. If we aren't Christian, what are we? Muslim? :P
Is there any point in trying to explain to these people that modern Christianity might not even exist without the Catholic church, and if it did it would have come from an Orthodox tradition, which is rather more mystical?
At the end of the day this is mostly Martin Luther's fault for championing a democratic Bible (something a lot of modern fundies don't seem to understand) while militating against critical thinking (the fact that short-bussers have been trying to kill each other over theological points over the years is a function of general assholishness; religion is merely the enabling excuse). The end result: a theological train wreck where the Bible is divorced from its cultural context and pop theology is the province of closed-minded retards.
No thanks. I'll take the ivory tower.
NO religion is formed in a vacuum, so yes, the *dates* are pagan, but what they celibate is Christian, Hel, if they where pagan then the rebirth one (Easter) would be in winter and the birth one (Christmas) would be in the spring. Oh, and if Catholics "never where" Christians, then why do they worship Christ, and why is your religion based on their teachings (because it doesn't seem to have much to do with the teachings of Jesus)
Not celebrating Easter or Christmas because they were once "pagan" is a great way to insult your religious forerunners, you know.
Making their holidays coincide with pagan holidays was part of their PR campaign. Seriously. That new religion looks a lot better when you can keep your favorite holidays, celebrations, and party-days.
Well, in a way he's right. Before Constantine merged christianity with the two predominant pagan religions of Rome, christians celebrated the birth of christ on janurary 6th.
That's also when they started painting halos on the saints.
So what hollidays DO you celebrate? Is it lonely?
Gah!..
So... St. Peter, the first pope, wasn't a Christian, neither were Justin Martyr, Origen, St. Augustines (who came up with original sin as a way to explain the need for salvation through Christ), and all those who first articulated most of your beliefs.
No, waypay1, get YOUR effin' facts straight. Your tradition, which I assume to be Protestant or one of the countless offshoots of it, as there are mighty few Orthodox churches in North America, comes from Catholicism. Did you know Martin Luther was a Augustinian monk (that is, Catholic) when he came up with his 95 Theses in Wittenburg?
So, by your assertion, the very founder of your tradition wasn't a Christian.
I pity your ignorance.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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