How come Catholics don't hold a grudge against Pagans...I mean, they were the ones who fed them to the lions, and watched them die for sport. I dno just wondering.

I'm pretty sure the Christians have held a big grudge against the pagans.

It's probably why they make them out to be vicious, blood thirsty, monsters whenever they get the chance.

It's also probably why they've ruthlessly slaughtered so many of them claiming them subhuman, not unlike how the nazis (who were also Christian) treated the Jews.

Hmmm...

Have you hit your head lately, Hammer?

Cheers,

Lost

quote:Have you hit your head lately, Hammer?

No, he's always been a bit dim.

i've held a grudge against catholics ever since the bishop went archdiocese on my pre teen ass.

Thanks for the insult craftian, I could say the same for you. By the way, Nazi's were not Christian in the sense that they followed Christ. Hitler did not believe in Christianity, and believed more in Norse mythology.

Where in the world are you getting your information, Hammer?

Cheers,

Lost

Well...while catholics may be christian..Catholicism while also being a government has a different set of beliefs than all the other different sets of christian beliefs. LOL, sounds ridiculous but its true. Catholics drink alcohol, hell they even make rules for the world. So, they are just a looser bunch of church-goers.

Uh, remember....they even protect child molesters, so paganism is pretty unimportant in a belief system like that.

Many people, and especially countries who claim to be "christian" are anything but Christ-like. Unfortuently as people (and this applies to all religion, but for us as westerners more so christianity/ the church)we have an phenomenal ability to clothe anything we want to do in "god speak" or give it a religious justification-

Look at the Catholic Church or at Germany and the Nazis in the 30s and 40s. Germany had been the capital of protestant theological thought since the reformation, and yet they mostly sat by or joined in those events (with the notable exception of the "professing church" Niehmoller and Bonhoeffer etc).

Why? Because they were religious church goers who had no real faith in the God and Christ they claimed to follow, but rather mental assent to a bunch of ideas and beliefs. As soon as modernism divides the head from the heart, the will,and your actions all religion, philosphies and world views became about as effective as farting in the wind.

Hitler was not a pagan(believer in Norse Mythology). I would like to see where u got this information. Norse Mythology if not extinct, was just a shard of what it was before at that point. St. Olaf ( I think it was him) turned lots of the Vikings(prime believers in Norse Mythology) Christian. So the likelihood of Hitler being a pagan is highly unlikely. he grew up some sort of Christian religion. And I doubt if he doubted Christianity he would turn to Norse Mythology.

Those fuckin Romans fed the Christians to the lions.

Once Christianity took hold they converted those damn Pagans by either incorporating some of the pagan beliefs into thir own system of beliefs or by banning them completely.

Hitler was a greenie who believed that Germanies natural environment had over many millennia shaped the noble German character.

And that the environment had to be protected because of its importance in continuing to produce the purity of the German race.