The Church

[Little Miss]

:\ That is a good question...

[Anoxanmore]

I do like chocolate eggs though :D

 

Or anything chocolate pretty much.

[Little Miss]

*laughs* I love how you manage to tie in our topic still  <3

[Talmanes]

Well a lot of holidays, like Christmas and Halloween, are created to counter pagan holidays.

[Anoxanmore]

What can I say, I'm a natural. :D

 

Talmanes, they were created not to counter, but to include those older religions so they peope who haven't "converted" or been "converted" would feel more at home during those timeframes.

[Talmanes]

Not really I'd say more of countering. It seems to be the best word. Including older religions was never the goal.

[Anoxanmore]

The whole goal of Christianity for example was to create a one world religion, which means they had to modify their existing doctrine and rules to fit what would work best with the old pagan beliefs.

 

Key point is Christmas, it was never celebrated till around 1100(in its modern injunction), when Christianity came to the UK and the Celtics were celebrating their winter solitice, prior to that, it revolved around the Hebrew Holiday. :P

 

It could also be related back to Saturnila with the Romans.

[LedZepMan]

LIES!!!!!!!!

[Talmanes]

They didn't want people celebrating pagan holidays, so they put a Christian one there instead.

[ed2funy]

And the monkey ran around.

Looking at the ground.

Hey little monkey!

Kill Talmanes!!!!

 

:D :P

[Talmanes]

*runs around with a monkey on his back clawing at his face*

[ed2funy]

*pays the monkey with Talmanes remains*

 

:D

[Little Miss]

O_o

[ed2funy]

Limi!

 

Haha Adella.

[Little Miss]

*snugglebites Eddie* That made me happy actually. ^^

[ed2funy]

yay. :D

 

Now....why the o_0?

 

[Adella]

Ed o.O why did you say my name?

[ed2funy]

Because I wrote her name big and in green. You can't see it on your phone. :P

[charis sedai]

Limilove, you have an absolute TALENT for coming in during EXCEPTIONALLY odd times in this thread.

 

*settles onto couch* Hello, everyone!

[ed2funy]

*tackles Charisard*

Hello.

:D

[charis sedai]

*oof*

 

Well, hello, Ed.

[mcs0083]

He has that effect on people ;)

[charis sedai]

You know, I had a thought about Charisard, Ed. I wonder if that would be the british spelling? you know, like realise versus realize?

[ed2funy]

lol!

Let's ask one of those crazy Brits.

:D

[charis sedai]

Yes. Lets.

 

*looks for a brit*

 

Anybody??