[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] Good christians celebrating pagan holidays...

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This one's been bugging me since I first heard it, so I did a (very) 
little digging...

Many of today's widely celebrated Christian holidays, over which much 
debate has raged regarding nativity scenes and "Christian" decorations, 
were at one time pagan holidays that were adapted to Christian use to 
make the conversion of pagan to Christian more palatable.

Christmas:
http://de.essortment.com/christmaspagan_rece.htm
http://www.origin-of-christmas.com/

Easter:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

So, my question/discussion point is: how do Christians feel about the 
fact that many of the traditions widely accepted as "Christian" ones 
appear to have been adopted from pagan religions?


On a side note, I ran across this little pebble that I was previously 
unaware of:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr.htm

Rick

--
We simply can't idiot-proof everything. Sometimes the idiots just have 
to suffer and die.
--http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/

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