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Are you referring to things like Christmas and it's pagan traditions grafted in?
Guess we shouldn't be glad when it's Friday since it's named after the planet Venus, later named in honor of the Teutonic goddess Frigg or Freia. In fact all the days and months are named after some sort of god or goddess. But when we are glad it's Friday are we really in some way worshiping a goddess? Certainly not, but we're attributing what our culture sees as Friday as the end of the work week.
Similarly, i don't think anyone really attributes anything in Christmas like the tree and whatnot to the pagan origins. we celebrate Christ's birth. We're not celebrating pagan holidays unless one is particularly fond of the pagan aspects and seeks them out and announces they are celebrating for that exact reason.
Guess we shouldn't be glad when it's Friday since it's named after the planet Venus, later named in honor of the Teutonic goddess Frigg or Freia. In fact all the days and months are named after some sort of god or goddess. But when we are glad it's Friday are we really in some way worshiping a goddess? Certainly not, but we're attributing what our culture sees as Friday as the end of the work week.
Similarly, i don't think anyone really attributes anything in Christmas like the tree and whatnot to the pagan origins. we celebrate Christ's birth. We're not celebrating pagan holidays unless one is particularly fond of the pagan aspects and seeks them out and announces they are celebrating for that exact reason.
"The name of the Christian celebration of Easter originally comes from Ancient Egypt. The worship of Astarte, the Phoenician name for Egypt's goddess of fertility, in time spread throughout Europe. "Ostara" became the Old English word for this now Anglo-Saxon goddess. During the 2nd century, early Christians attempting to convert pagan worshippers called their Christian celebration "Ostara" which later became "Easter.""
Source http://libraryspot.com/know/easter.htm
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I could care less if it was or wasn't. It's what we attribute itto now that's important.
Source http://libraryspot.com/know/easter.htm
I love the internet ^_^
I could care less if it was or wasn't. It's what we attribute itto now that's important.
If you're running on the theory that we shouldn't celebrate any man-made Holidays, then we're pretty much never gonna celebrate. I suppose you could adopt Jewish traditions and celebrate Passover, et al, but good luck convincing the rest of us.
I mean, look at major US Holidays:
New Years? Completely different day than the Jewish new year.
Valentine's Day? Name taken from a man, a Catholic Saint, with pagan iconography in the form of Cupid
thrown in for good measure.
Easter? Pagan origins of the name already covered. Christians have always celebrated Christ's resurrection, but the early church did it every Sunday, not once a year.
Independence Day? Instituted to celebrate the emergence of a nation that doesn't force it's citizens to follow a state church! How horrid!
Halloween? Instituted to replace pagan harvest festivals with celebration of the Saints.
Thanksgiving? Sure it's made to give thanks to God, but it was man-made, signed into law by old Honest Abe.
Christmas? No indication that the early church celebrated Christ's birth. Modern Christmases tend to be more about crass commercialism than about Christ's birth anyway.
So you can either choose to live in paranoia about the holidays of dead religions, or you can join the 21st century and learn to have a little fun.
I mean, look at major US Holidays:
New Years? Completely different day than the Jewish new year.
Valentine's Day? Name taken from a man, a Catholic Saint, with pagan iconography in the form of Cupid
thrown in for good measure.
Easter? Pagan origins of the name already covered. Christians have always celebrated Christ's resurrection, but the early church did it every Sunday, not once a year.
Independence Day? Instituted to celebrate the emergence of a nation that doesn't force it's citizens to follow a state church! How horrid!
Halloween? Instituted to replace pagan harvest festivals with celebration of the Saints.
Thanksgiving? Sure it's made to give thanks to God, but it was man-made, signed into law by old Honest Abe.
Christmas? No indication that the early church celebrated Christ's birth. Modern Christmases tend to be more about crass commercialism than about Christ's birth anyway.
So you can either choose to live in paranoia about the holidays of dead religions, or you can join the 21st century and learn to have a little fun.
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