Recently I was asked Why do you believe Christmas is Jesus' birthday?
Did you people realize Christmas isn't really Jesus' birthday? It's really a pagan holiday for Saturnalia.
Dec. 25th is the day within the liturgical year that we celebrate the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. The liturgical year is not literal, so it doesn't really matter what day we pick as long as we pick one, we catholics chose it, and everyone else follows it, even the fundies (lol).
Additionally since it is part of the liturgical calendar and therefore the day we pick is irrelevant, we made it relevant by choosing a date that coincided with the pagan celebration of the solstice, this was done with the specific goal of undermining paganism.
I think it worked pretty well in that regard. You?
Same thing with the Resurrection occurring in the spring time. Although the the resurrection is linked to lent, Easter being exactly 40 days after ash wed. 40 days is a symbolic number indicating completion, however we used it literally here in order to pick Easter Sunday.
The 40 days of lent coincides with the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert fasting, just prior to him starting his ministry. Literally, this fasting in the desert is not 40 days from the passion and Resurrection, but figuratively it indicates a build-up of suffereing climaxing in the passion and crucifiction, and thus indicates the completion of suffering and temptation and Christ's victory over sin and physical death; and His proof that he is God, his spirit departed his corpse and then re-entered it. As if his body were a suit he could put on and take off. Only God could do this.
Easter does correspond loosely with he pagan celebration of the equinox, and thus diverts attention from, overshadows, juxtaposes, undermines the pagan ideal of celebrating creation, by supplanting it with the more proper celebration of the creator.
There is a symbolic relationship between the death of God and his ressurection that is justaposed with the death or hibernation of creatures and the new life of spring. But the contrast here is more important than the comparison, Jesus was dead and he rose, thus proving everything he said to his first bishops the 11 he hand picked and trained, they in turn passed this on to us and had the goos sense, to undermine the usperstition of pagan holidays by assigning important events in the liturgical year to coienced with the pagan supersitions.
Again, I think this has worked very well. Over the years ideas like the pagan superstitions regarding solstices and equinoxes have been supplanted not just be the christian holidays that celebrate the Creator, Jesus, as God rather than celabrating the false god by worshiping his creation superstitiously, but the superstitions with regard to equinoxes and solictices have been supplanted by scienific understanding of what they really are.
Science has explained to us what is really going on; so the pagan superstitions have been rendered irrelevant by Christianity and then ignorant by sceince.
So, science not only co-exits with Christianity, but actually supports it. While paganism neither co-exists nor supports either science or chrstianity, because it is false. Paganism has no basis in truth, while both science and Christianity are based on truth.
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Additionally since it is part of the liturgical calendar and therefore the day we pick is irrelevant, we made it relevant by choosing a date that coincided with the pagan celebration of the solstice, this was done with the specific goal of undermining paganism.
I think it worked pretty well in that regard. You?
Same thing with the Resurrection occurring in the spring time. Although the the resurrection is linked to lent, Easter being exactly 40 days after ash wed. 40 days is a symbolic number indicating completion, however we used it literally here in order to pick Easter Sunday.
The 40 days of lent coincides with the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert fasting, just prior to him starting his ministry. Literally, this fasting in the desert is not 40 days from the passion and Resurrection, but figuratively it indicates a build-up of suffereing climaxing in the passion and crucifiction, and thus indicates the completion of suffering and temptation and Christ's victory over sin and physical death; and His proof that he is God, his spirit departed his corpse and then re-entered it. As if his body were a suit he could put on and take off. Only God could do this.
Easter does correspond loosely with he pagan celebration of the equinox, and thus diverts attention from, overshadows, juxtaposes, undermines the pagan ideal of celebrating creation, by supplanting it with the more proper celebration of the creator.
There is a symbolic relationship between the death of God and his ressurection that is justaposed with the death or hibernation of creatures and the new life of spring. But the contrast here is more important than the comparison, Jesus was dead and he rose, thus proving everything he said to his first bishops the 11 he hand picked and trained, they in turn passed this on to us and had the goos sense, to undermine the usperstition of pagan holidays by assigning important events in the liturgical year to coienced with the pagan supersitions.
Again, I think this has worked very well. Over the years ideas like the pagan superstitions regarding solstices and equinoxes have been supplanted not just be the christian holidays that celebrate the Creator, Jesus, as God rather than celabrating the false god by worshiping his creation superstitiously, but the superstitions with regard to equinoxes and solictices have been supplanted by scienific understanding of what they really are.
Science has explained to us what is really going on; so the pagan superstitions have been rendered irrelevant by Christianity and then ignorant by sceince.
So, science not only co-exits with Christianity, but actually supports it. While paganism neither co-exists nor supports either science or chrstianity, because it is false. Paganism has no basis in truth, while both science and Christianity are based on truth.
http://www.stmichaelgodsknight.com
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