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@lingonlad @smashbaals I didn't say Christianity is pagan but that it has roots in paganism, and therefore has pagan tendencies.
Leviticus 20:2
It's a defining characteristic of Christianity as with Judaism and Islam that polytheists are condemned as the others move from polytheism into monotheism
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@ththirtyththree @smashbaals What in the Old Testament is proof that Christianity is pagan? I don’t suspect you to have more knowledge than the prophets on this.
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@lingonlad @smashbaals Christianity, as is shown by the Old Testament itself, has roots in paganism. It could not, despite efforts, undo these traditions, and therefore had to find ways to celebrate these traditions in a way that could be called Christian. This process simply repeated itself in Europe
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@ththirtyththree @smashbaals Bro, the date of Easter has been mandated since the early church. Codified at Nicaea in 325 AD. It has nothing to do with pagans. As for ‘Jul’, the term itself was a carry over, but it doesn’t matter, because these are language specific, and the actual holiday name is ‘Christmas’
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@lingonlad @smashbaals Celebrations to cover up or replace pagan ones, hence the pagan names still surviving in some places. Like Jul for christmas in Scandi countries.
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@ththirtyththree @smashbaals The etymology of Easter doesn’t matter, as the actual name of the celebration is pascha.
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I want to cry tears, I want to leave this life behind, for times that have passed, and men that have died
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Everything I read about this time astonishes me more and more. To think of how Napoleon elevated the entire world to such nobility, how under Napoleon every man could be a hero. Goethe said this era produced heroes on every side as great as anything Rome or Athens had produced; he is right. It is simply astonishing
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Everything I read about this time astonishes me more and more. To think of how Napoleon elevated the entire world to such nobility, how under Napoleon every man could be a hero. Goethe said this era produced heroes on every side as great as anything Rome or Athens had produced; he is right. It is simply astonishing
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@Birkalv That’s really by Blake? Looks more like Friedrich. But yes I was looking at the color in Ancient of Days in your picture here and realized. His style is already so completely unique anyway.
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“Eros is a god who is both young, beautiful, and winged. Therefore he delights in the youth, follows after beauty, and gives wings to the soul...
He has more power than Zeus himself. He rules over the elements, he rules over the stars, he rules over his fellow gods...
All the flowers are the work of Eros, all the trees are his creation, and on his account rivers flow and winds blow...
I have even known a bull in love, and he bellowed as if stung by a gadfly...
She (Lycaenion) made Daphnis lie down beside her and taught him everything that had to be done in sex. And she told him that this is how he should love Chloe, if he wished to please her.”
— Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (Lesbian romance, 2nd century AD)

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