Paganism and Christianity
Posted: April 20, 2019, 7:45 am
I have a friend who is very interested in medieval, its culture & religion and similar. And now, he suddenly started hating Christianity because he believes that paganism is the first real religion. The annoying part is that, whenever we pass by some church or anything related to our God & Jesus, he just spits at it. He also dreams about burning churches and destroying Christianity (sounds retarded, right). Anyway, I'd like to ask if here's anyone who knows more about it, has some reliable sources that could help me to learn more about it all?
He says that paganism is 5000+ years old, but then emperor Constantine declared Christianity as a recognized religion without any persecutions for those who will believe in it. Also, he thinks that Christians took over all holidays (especially Christmas & Easter) from Pagans because they were the first ones who celebrated such holidays (births & deaths of their gods). I don't know how much of it is true. However, there are few things that make sense, for example these holidays that we Christians celebrate, much of them are similar to theirs and just like that, first Christians "declared" our God. I forgot what he told me all about it, but it made me think more about it all.
Anyway, it's all fucked up shit and no one will ever have a 100% exact answer or proof, these are all just stories which were told to people from each other but most likely someone changed it once or said fake facts which led to this what we have today.
Anyone who would love to talk about it?
He says that paganism is 5000+ years old, but then emperor Constantine declared Christianity as a recognized religion without any persecutions for those who will believe in it. Also, he thinks that Christians took over all holidays (especially Christmas & Easter) from Pagans because they were the first ones who celebrated such holidays (births & deaths of their gods). I don't know how much of it is true. However, there are few things that make sense, for example these holidays that we Christians celebrate, much of them are similar to theirs and just like that, first Christians "declared" our God. I forgot what he told me all about it, but it made me think more about it all.
Anyway, it's all fucked up shit and no one will ever have a 100% exact answer or proof, these are all just stories which were told to people from each other but most likely someone changed it once or said fake facts which led to this what we have today.
Anyone who would love to talk about it?

