Re: Christian Holidays (was: Halloween - what are you wearing?)

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:02:48 -0600, "Chas" <chasclements@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>"Rabid Weasel" <NO+lawson__SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>> I thought it was a repackaging of the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
>>> And the Roman Catholic Church realizing it was too popular simply to
>>> dump it replaced Saturn with Jesus.
>> Something like that is what many contend, yes.
>
>Holidays were a means of counting seasonal time before calendars were widely
>available. If you think it got screwed up in Europe, you ought to see what
>it did to the indigenes of the New World. A lot of celebrations that were
>taken over by Catholicism were originally about human sacrifice, ritual
>cannibalism, preparation for the war season and so on. The mixing of RC
>'saint's days'/feast days with propitiating the gods with blood sacrifice
>has engendered some funny customs.

Ah, yes, and communion is drinking the blood of Christ, and eating the
flesh of Christ. In other words, ritualistic cannabalism.

Doesn't sound to me like religion has evolved all that much.

Hal

>
>> Most Christians are quite happy with the notion that the season/holidays
>> are "symbolic."
>
>Sure- the legalists that see some sort of dysconnect between the practices
>are just being silly.
>
>Chas
>

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