Deep Look Into the History of Religion: The Rise of Christianity (Blog 2)

From 0 ACE - 650 ACE, Christianity came into the spotlight, pushing out all other prior religions (to help mix things up, think about how the English/Spanish settlers came to America, pushing out the native people of the land). In the Middle East, the Old Testament was being written. After Christ died, his followers spread His word while migrating and spreading across the lands. They soon made their way to Rome, where a lot of merging of beliefs occurred. People came together creating new paths of Religion. By going after the rulers of the lands, they were converted first, all other lower groups of people would be forced to convert at that point in order to survive. Pagan temples were obliterated and Christian churches were built upon the Pagan holy ground. The fact that many of these same Pagans had built these Christian churches, you see their influence in the design even still today. The Pagan symbol incorporated into astrology was the Solar Cross, and variations of it.

This symbol was also used in Egyptian mythology to built their pyramids:

The adaptation that we see today of the solar cross which is a Pagan symbol, yet is found on Churches today look like this:





Christians conversion of the Pagans came to a halt when Christians realized it would take a lot more to get them to convert. (So just in case people already have a negative connotation of Pagans, this is where it started). Christians began to spread the word that Pagans worshiped and consorted with the "The Devil", which wasn't true in the least bit. Pagans were in tune with the natural world and astrology; not the "Devil". This lie spread through time has given every single Pagan a bad name since the death of Christ Himself.

Lets travel back a bit and look at the facts. Many other cultures before Christ, "shared the ideas about Gods and their powers and place in the universe—and that Christianity simply adopted those ideas and applied them to Jesus. Ancient people knew god-men did miracles. The first Christians thought Jesus was a god-man, so they told stories about Jesus doing miracles. They even had Him doing the same miracles as the other god-men."(http://www.pocm.info/). How else would these people get the idea that water could be turned into wine? or any other miracle? They got these ideas from other myths of other GOD-MEN in the Mediterranean area.

          

"The core of Christianity—the worship of a miracle working, walking, talking god-man who brings salvation—was also the core of other ancient religions that began at least a thousand years before Jesus.

Heaven, hell, prophecy, daemon possession, sacrifice, initiation by baptism, communion with God through a holy meal, the Holy Spirit, monotheism, immortality of the soul, and many other "Christian" ideas all belonged to earlier, older Pagan faiths. They were simply part of ancient Mediterranean culture. Along with miracle working sons of God, born of a mortal woman, they were common elements of pre-Christian Pagan religion. Mithras had 'em. So did Dionysus, Attis, Osiris, and Orpheus. And more.

And they had them generations—centuries— before Jesus was a twinkle in Saint Paul's eye."(http://www.pocm.info/)

The point that I'm trying to make here is that all Christianity really is, is an adaptation of many cultures' beliefs systems. Think of evolution, all these different belief systems and their followers simply broke off into two or more groups and spread into larger scale groups with even larger beliefs; one of which was Christianity. I'm not saying is not all true, because it does have similarities of longer lived faiths. I'm just one for the very original belief system, Paganism. It's where religion got started; the very nitty-gritty of it all. Christian symbols such as the Christmas Tree and Easter Eggs are all Pagan symbols. Pagan is not a bad thing, I'm just saying look at the real facts here. Any religion that exists today can be followed back to its origin, and that is Paganism.

Many more events came from the rising belief system of Christianity and we can see that in many historical events. I wish not to continue because you would end up reading a novel and not a blog post. The point of this blog here is only to accept the FACT that Christianity is an adaptation of many other belief systems one main system of Paganism. If you wish to learn more you can check out some of these links:

Christianization 

Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth 

Early History of Christianity 

Christianity and Paganism