If worshiping trees is so horrible, then why do we still do it every Christmas? The early Christians knew that they couldn't simply erase ancient pagan culture and thus embraced most of it, tayloring it to their religion. We shouldn't celebrate our past religious conflicts.
If it weren't for St. Boniface, my ancestors would still be chasing pigs through the forests of #Germany and worshiping trees. The #CatholicChurch celebrates his feast day today.
St. Boniface, pray for Germany.pic.twitter.com/o3pdCs9n2c
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The cut Christmas tree is a war trophy. Living Christmas trees are pagan remnant. Appropriate question for today!
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Where I live we decorate live trees, but that's rather besides the point. There are countless examples of pagan traditions preserved by Christianity. Thinking that your ancestors were savages that needed to be tamed is not a healthy mindset to have in my opinion.
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The Pagan Germanic tribes practiced human sacrifice , slavery , ritualistic rape . The Pagan Celts has heads for trophies and burned people alive in wickermen. You can live your ancestors but be truthful about them. The Germans were barbarians until LOGOS civilized them
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The church brought shame, guilt, ritualized cannibalism, elevation of vices to virtue, torture, destruction of knowledge, loss of personal accountability and the conditions from which universalism took root.
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And they brought Jews and usury with them into Northern Europe.
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The Jews of Europe were Europeans that converted . They were Pagans before that so, if anyone brought Jews to Europe , it was the Pagans. Catholics kept Jewish subversion at bay until Luther
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The Romans already had advanced civilization, art, architecture, engineering, and philosophy. But you ignore that to fit your narrative.
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Missing the point. Roman civilisation reached its heights long before they did. I have strong doubts that Australian Aborigines would attain a high level of civilisation through strong adherence to Christianity—which seems to be what E Michael Jones believes.
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If he’s referring to Germans specifically, then there is no larger point to the statement. It’s empty. Based on other statements he’s made, I do believe he is making a larger point— which relies on ignoring enormous swaths of history.
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Christianity was a vehicle to introduce Roman culture to Germans—and much of this culture was pre-Christian Rome (Byzantium) fell after Christianity I believe that Christianity is good (if we are talking about pre Vatican II), but a lot of these assumptions demonstrably false.
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Christians can ‘tame’ Australian aborigines with a more impressive religion (Christianity). But the culture that follows—the things they accept as a result of the conversion—the science, the architecture, the medicine—is not ‘Christian’—it is European. Christianity is a vehicle.
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The fourth commandment tells us to honor our ancestors
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Which we do, while also honoring the First Commandment. “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me”.
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And we do not honour our *parents* or ancestors or anyone at all such as to dishonor God. I can't commit murder and and justification being that my Mum asked me to
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If it weren’t for the Catholic Spaniards, my ancestors would still be chasing wild animals through the forest, while performing human sacrifice to please some “sun god”. I thank Catholicism for civilizing Latin America.
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