tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post6918621290081295755..comments2024-03-01T07:35:49.740-08:00Comments on Come Reason's Apologetics Notes: The Date of Saturnalia Doesn't Line Up with ChristmasLenny Espositohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-3688942363678562022017-12-06T18:45:39.122-08:002017-12-06T18:45:39.122-08:00Even if Christmas is replacement on dates of Satur...Even if Christmas is replacement on dates of Saturnalia, what is wrong with it? Actually it brings double credit- starting to celebrate Messiah's birth as well as abolishing a pagan festival...right?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01738243502507956803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-3674381935112228912016-04-19T03:08:18.661-07:002016-04-19T03:08:18.661-07:00The idea of Christians replacing pagan festivals w...The idea of Christians replacing pagan festivals with Christian holidays should be taken in a more general sense. When church leaders in Rome wanted to change anything about the structure of Christian worship, those concepts or dates or practices had to be communicated to an illiterate population all across Europe at a time when transportation and communication were very slow. It was easier to change the ways of the common people, villagers in the rolling hills of northern Germany, for example, by teaching them to refocus the meaning of their traditional annual fests, as opposed to convincing them to entirely abandon celebrations that were meaningful communal rituals for others.<br />Ancient communities were also not so specific about when they dedicated days to festivity as opposed to work. Time was measured by the natural surroundings and work depended on necessity. For villagers, the length or intensity of communal festivities depended on the locality, the weather, or the prosperity of that season. <br />Ancient pagan fests had a religious element but they were more importantly about bringing the entire village together for a celebration. Those things are never easily changed. So, Christmas was assigned a date because of its meaning to Christian leaders but also one that coincided, however roughly, with a general season of festivity. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11626268960081990157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-5076959082769248342015-12-19T01:19:01.202-08:002015-12-19T01:19:01.202-08:00Why don't the 'People of the Way' just...Why don't the 'People of the Way' just throw off all that is pagan?Dan Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12374582411889264293noreply@blogger.com