Catholics inherited many of the pagans Religions and traditions ?

Question

Catholics inherited many of the pagans Religions and traditions ?

Answer 1

All religions influence and plagiarize from one another.

Catholicism also inherited many of the Jewish religion's traditions.  Duh.  Not exactly a whole lot of new concepts in any of the world religions today.

Answer 2

Not so much inherited as incorporated them. Up until Constantine it was not to much of an issue but when he declared Christianity to be the religion of the Roman empire it became one.

All the priests and priestesses of the pagan gods did not want to loose their lively hoods so they en-mass converted to Christianity and brought all their stuff with them and included it in Christianity. That is why so much of what Roman Catholics do looks just like what pagans do.

Answer 3

One explanation is that the Church "covered" them--they used some of the ideas in order to get people to stop doing the old rituals and do the new ones.  This is used in cultures all over the world--why shouldn't a particular church do the same thing?  Then you gradually forget the old ways.  

Answer 4

Inherited or stole?

Answer 5

LOL!!!! Ignorance is bliss.....LOL!!!!

Answer 6

I wouldn't call it inherited. I would say they blended pagan traditions into Christianity in order to control the masses.

Answer 7

I understand that even Mardi Gras started out as a Catholic holiday.It is a shame that a religious group so big wastes so many resources on rituals.I was a member of the Catholic Church until I was 17 years old.I even went to Catholic school when I was young.They don't have enough focus on the younger generations.There is nothing for children and teenagers and kids grow  up lost and confused.I changed denominations when I was 18 years old and was baptized.Catholic church reminds me of Thanksgiving day,you fall asleep,wake up and eat then fall asleep again.Whatever you believe I guess.

Answer 8

Yes, absolutely. The Christian celebrations of both Christmas and Easter are deeply routed in Pagan tradition.

Answer 9

wow yes i've considered that too. i mean we don't really know what the Roman religion was like but as Rome became the first christian empire it would certainly follow from any other similar aspect in history that people just mixed their faiths and doctrines into some form or another, eg the feast of saturnalia (saturn) is the same time as... christmas. hello.

besides it's an established fact that all the mistletoe and evergreens came from the celtic druids - there's no such equivalent in the middle eastern deserts!

Answer 10

No, I love Jesus more  than everything.

Answer 11

Yes

Answer 12

Absolutely.

Easter is the name of the Celtic fertility goddess. That's where the bunnies and eggs come from.

Also note this about the Cross from a Bible dictionary:

"Vines Complete Expository Dictionary" by W. E. Vine. Nelson. 1961

Cross, Crucify

Noun, stauros

Denotes, primarily, "an upright pale or stake."

On such malefactors were nailed for execution.

Both the noun and the verb stauroo, "to fasten to a stake or pale," are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed "cross."

The shape of the latter had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt.

By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith.

In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols.

Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the "cross" of Christ.

Answer 13

The Christian/Catholic Bible is basically an Astro-theological literary hybrid of the B.C.E.

So in that - yeah.

Answer 14

no

Answer 15

they did not invent them - they included them under the umbrella of Christianity

blasphemous!

Answer 16

Yes.  Saving faith is Nazarene Judaism.  Catholicism is Sun worship baptized by sprinkling.