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Re: Pagan Christianity?

Oct 14, 2009, 16:55

Hugo Hellfire wrote:

Christianity is just an appendage of old forms, old thoughts, old feelings that were twisted and desacralized in order to accomodate for this ersatz middle eastern so called religion.

With respect, this sounds like something of an over simplification - the debate could be turned around and we could say the middle eastern religion was adapted to accommodate what existed already in Britain. The most important pagan festival of the year the 'return of the sun' winter solstice has had christ's birthday superimposed on it when everyone (even the most blinkered of christians) knows that if such a person actually existed, and is not allegorical, he could not possibly have been born at that time of year. Interestingly the approximate summer solstice, 24th June, is the feast day of John the Baptist ... in allegorical terms summer must die in order that it can be reborn at the winter solstice. Every important seasonal/lunar festival that may have been marked in prehistory has an equivalent christian festival superimposed upon it. Which is basically what you said really, so we agree. Replacement words for 'ersatz' are imitation or artificial ...

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