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Originally Posted by TopHatter
I agree with entropy.
No offense intended to our Catholic, but Catholicism riddled with Roman paganism - a sop to the people who suddenly had this new religion thrust upon them as entropy said.
Catholicism and Roman paganisim share polytheism, Mother Godess worship and idolatry, all of which are condemned in the Bible.
I'm sorry if the comparison is upsetting to others, but there it is.
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What did you agree with, TH? This?
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Catolicism is paganism, but it's a different story. It is "Christianity" totally adopted to the Roman needs.
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That's a good bit different than saying some pagan rituals were adopted into Catholicism. That's saying it is all pagan.
In any case, entropy is confusing apples and oranges. The Catholic church and the christian religion are the ship and the message respectively. One can say, as he did, that the Catholic church is Roman in structure, but Catholicism the religion is very Christian.
His was an unclear, even contradictory statement, inasmuch as "pagan" is defined as all religious systems except Christianity, Judaism & Islam. (IMO, the term excludes some heafty religions, but that's another subject.)