Christianity has Pagan DNA

I believe this to be true. There are many Christian holidays that include Pagan practice. Why do Christmas have a Evergreen tree? Because the manager had a tree in it? No...because in Pagan religion, they brought the Evergreen tree into their house at the start of winter (Winter Solstice/Yule) to welcome the God and Goddess into their home during the cold and bare months. Why color eggs for Easter? Well, the Pagan ways the egg represented the start of a birth cycle. In the spring (Spring Solstice/Ostara), eggs were searched for as food because that was when the eggs were being laid. But the Spring is also a celebration of life waking and growing again. Starting a new life and cycle. Well...this is also when Christianity claims that Jesus came back to life. OK...I am really not trying to offend ANYONE here. So please, do not take offense and I am not intending it to be offensive. Pagans followed their faith and when Christianity movement came...those that did not follow were punished. They were shunned from the city dwelling...hence, the "country-dweller" definition. And to get Pagans to adopt and accept the new faith, their celebrations were catered to be about the same time and almost the same meaning...but with God or Jesus instead. The evil of hell and fire and brimstone was introduced to scare people to believe this is what would happen to them if they did not convert. So, out of fear and being a social outcast, many did convert. I could go on and on...but the point is...yes, Christianity does have Pagan DNA. And my bumper sticker reads, "Get a taste of religion, Lick a witch." LOL

The true essence of Christianity is following Christ and it has got nothing to do with paganism. However, the so called Christianity nowadays are nothing but veiled paganism, not only DNA but actually, Christianized paganism. Pagan deities are given christian names, pagan practices were christened and absorbed in christian liturgies. It is nothing more than paganism taking up a new name. That being said, there are true followers of Christ who obey Him as Lord of their lives and seek to glorify God in whatever they do. This has nothing to do with religion but a personal faith in God.

I found this article that I thought you'd enjoy. If I were religious, I'd have to say I'm Gnostic, not to be confused with Agnostic! I would proudly drive around with that bumper sticker but I saw one I liked even better that reads, "My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma!". Pagan Roots in Earliest Christianity article originally titled: A Short History of Gnosticism http://www.northernway.org/pagandna.html

Actually I love it. It is very true. So many of the traditions taken on by Christians are based off Pagan ones. They adopted them to make it easier to try and convert Pagans over. Also it was much harder for Pagans to celebrate at night and show up at church the next morning during the time when persecutions went on. This way they had to make the choice. One reason so many of the Christian holidays fall the next morning of a Pagan Holiday. I would love to have that sticker actually :) Who ever made it up obviously knew their religious history.

Well its true. Christian traditions have their roots in Paganism. There are a lot of reasons for these, but mainly to be easy for the missionaries to convert Pagans to Christianity and to avoid persecution. Most of the Christians today knows about the history of their religion, so I guess statements like these will be understood by those concerned.

Well it is pretty accurate to some extent. It gained its Pagan DNA primarily through emporer Constantine - a pagan that adopted Christianity as the national religion of Rome (the start of the Roman Catholic religion). He added pagan rituals and such to Christianity to attract more Pagans to the mix. I think he was trying to continue honoring his pagan roots and kinda snuck it in.

Cool bumpersticker! I find that it's true. Christianity got most of it's basing off of paganistic religions. In order to assimilate more pagans, they had to do this.

I completely agree with this statement. In fact, it was the Jehovah Witnesses who first noticed that the Christmas trees were pagan phallic symbols. This is one of the reasons that they do not celebrate any holidays. When the early xtian church was trying to make its mark on the world, one thing that they did was to make their holidays coincide with the holidays of the pagan peoples that they had conquered. This way, they people would be more willing to accept their worldview.