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Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Cindy Kandolf (cindy@nvg.unit.no)
25 Aug 1995 09:40:27 GMT
In article <41dnbr$rr@hermes.cair.du.edu> ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu
(Robert A. Uhl) writes:
> In article <41djih$iqq@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com>,
> Bob Haley <haley@pt9231.ped.pto.ford.com> wrote:
> >
> >Both authors are correct. In addition, some of the practices of
> >the Roman Catholic Church are derived from Pagan rituals. This
> >was done in order to get pagans into the church. The papcy
> >endorsed this.
>
> Well, that's not quite true. Neither the Orthodox nor the Catholic
> church has pagan practices, but both placed certain feasts (Christmas,
> All Saint's Day (in the West)) on or near pagan feast days in order to
> get the peasants into the church and not out dancing naked and
> involving themselves in drunken orgies.
>
> Icons are _not_ pagan. Veneration of the Theotokos is _not_ pagan.
> The Eucharist is _not_ pagan. The Sacraments are _not_ pagan. I
> challenge you to name one practice of either church which is pagan.
That bit with plunging the paschal candle into the water sure looks
like a reinterpretation of a pagan fertility rite to _me_.
-Cindy Kandolf, certified language mechanic, mamma flodnak
cindy@nvg.unit.no Trondheim, Norway
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