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Originally posted by shmick25
So lets assume for the sake of the arguement that all beliefs are valid and have legitimate gods that could manifest back onto earth right here right now. (Take the christian god out of the picture).
Some people say that society will be better off. This arguement lends itself to the reasoning that the christian belief has caused all evil on earth? So if we remove the concept of god and satan we would have no evil as the concept of evil doesnt exist?
I am sure there were evil pagan gods? I havnt done much research into them so tell me what you think? I thought there were pagan gods of war, love peace etc.
I just find it hard to picture a world with so many contrary beliefs all co existing on the world at once.
Originally posted by Cearbhall
The Church, after many many years or persecution, became the legal religion with the Edict of Milan in 313. The Church sought to demonstrate in a dramatic way the victory of Christ over the false gods of paganism. The old shrines were emptied of their statues of pagan deities, replaced with symbols of Christian worship. The temples became churches and the practices of the former religion either discontinued or Christianized. Finally, the holidays and feasts celebrating pagan gods were replaced with days recognizing the victory of the True God. One well-known example of this is Christmas, where the feast of the sun god on December 25 was replaced with a celebration of God the Son.
[edit on 10-25-2004 by Cearbhall]
Originally posted by ZeroDeep
The term pagan comes from the Latin word, "PAGANOS" which meant, "HICK", are you calling us hicks !
lol
Many of those Gods are not Pagan, in fact, i find that term somewhat offensive..
Deep
Originally posted by shmick25
I think the idea of one God appearing makes a little more sense.
What do you think?
Originally posted by ChatholicGodBoy
From my understanding the word did not mean 'Hick' but a citizen who was not in the military, though to the romans a citizen not in the military my very well have been considered a �Hick�.