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Edited Oct 12, 2009, 18:45

Re: Pagan Christianity?

Oct 12, 2009, 18:44

You're right Drew, look at Catholicism in various countries around the world and each one has a very distinctive local flavour from the earlier elements they incorporated.

A lot of those made up saints were removed from the lists in something like 1967 as having no proof of having been founded on real people or because they were legendary.

The funny thing I find is how they used the same stories over and over in lots of different places. Our patron saint of Edinburgh, St Triduana, is one such. Elements of a famous eye well, a nun preserving her chastity from a pagan suitor, and plucking out her eyes are common to several saints, not just her. Back when they wrote them they couldn't have had any idea how widespread reading and books were going to be in the future.

The new religion was very much a patriarchal one, and women both as leaders or with religious power were cut out. The so called "Law of Innnocents" didn't protect women so much as put them in their place, for instance. I need to try and remember that book that shows the early "peter kirks" were all placed where female religious groups had a good following up in Orkney and the far north.

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