Posted on 05/09/2011 11:11:10 AM PDT by bronxville
The biggest problem facing Christianity today is that Christians refuse to engage society at any meaningful level. We have abdicated. Just look where England is now. That is where the US is going.
I read and read and read, and came to this final sentence... NOW where exactly did the notion of 'good Friday' come from... I know it is NOT scriptural. Maybe early on some pagan got in the mix and added a different methodology of 'counting'?
Do not speak of Chick at all - neither for nor against.
True, but Apollo was not God, he was just one of many gods, and not even the highest.
The Apollonian ideal was countered by ideals associated with other gods, notably Dionysus, whose motto was (paraphrased), "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
Ancient paganism was not a religion, it was a whole group of religions. The devotee could seek out the one that best suited him. The closest to this in the modern world is Hinduism.
I was posting about Hislop only - Chick happened to be in the article in passing. Can I provide the link?
Yes
“The biggest problem facing Christianity today is that Christians refuse to engage society at any meaningful level. We have abdicated. Just look where England is now. That is where the US is going.”
Yes. I believe that many Christians don’t know that we’ve become the enemy.
Feel free to pop me a memo when the pagans take over a Catholic cathedral or church the same way the Muslims have done in countless places. In short, the real threat to the world for now is the darkness of islam and not a bunch of disorganized self-worshipping pasty-faced vegetarian liberals.
This is true. Christians can defend against this, in part, by retreating to the more traditional forms of their faith. For example, Catholics can attend the traditional liturgies, which are untainted by modernism and humanism, particularly with respect to the homily. The parishioner will be less likely to hear themes of inclusiveness and tolerance and more likely to hear about sin and the consequences thereof.
Bumping
Maybe the hippies are not much of a threat but their philosophy is. Not that humanism and pagan worship will triumph against the Church, but many individual souls could be lost. I wouldn't downplay the danger. When I look at the kids in my neighborhood, I am much more concerned about their being influenced by humanism than by Islam, absolutely no comparison.
Yes, the article made it clear on polytheism - many gods, many goods and many moralities. He did only mention three - Zeus, Apollo and Neptune but it would take a book to mention all of them. His point was that moral relativism is the equivalent of the old polytheism where each become a god or goddess, a giver of law rather than a receiver.
I see humanism as the soul in a wilderness. That’s why we saw people like John Lindh being raised in secular-humanist liberal Marin and then being easily swayed into radical Islam. The false nature of humanism is apparent to anyone who does not smoke pot or pine away for Jerry Garcia and they are inevitably seekers.
There are some who believe that Islam is a pagan religion.
There is nothing new about “New Age”,in fact it is the oldest lie. “The Serpent said to Eve “You shall be as gods...’”.
You’re getting into - Scripture Alone - which isn’t the topic of the thread.
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