How much of Christianity is actually just an appropriation of Paganism? All the days of the week are Pagan-named, I heard Christmas is just Yule, and that Jesus replaced Sol.
>>18254213You can not steal natural cycles you stupid. And if Christmas is based after a festivity, that would be Saturnalia give it is ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, not some german festivity unknown until XIX century.
>>18254213It depends on what where you draw the line of Paganism. I would say pagans do own the term "Thor's day", you are right. But do they own the license to egg symbolism? Can they claim Aristotelian philosophy as particularly pagan? Are melodies of songs that pagans sang back in the day their intellectual property? Christianity uses all of that.As for Christmas, Yule was a northern-European celebration, Christianity has set a date for Christmas long before it reached the nordics, so Yule historically could not have been the reason for December 25th Christmas. Sol was celebrated on various dates, from August (Sol Indiges) to late December (Sol Invictus), so you can effectively accuse half of the world's festivities to be Sol-inspired. Though I wouldn't be surprised if it were. Christ fulfills and transcends every truly divine archetype, you don't become pagan by using pagan language. Using Greek was seemingly fine.
