It was applied on populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Pagan and paganism were pejorative terms for the same polytheistic group, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", and for much of its history was a derogatory term. Both during and after the Middle Ages, pagan was a pejorative term that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).
TAGS PAGAN (108) TOM HARPUR (2)
JESUS
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In 200 years, Christianity lost Jesus' Jewish teachings; adopting Greek and Roman Paganism - Yahweh Ministry
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The Pagan Christ
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 1/3
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 2/3
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Pagan Gods In The Bible (Polytheist 'Confusion') - Andrea Salbego 3/3
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Pagan Origins of Jesus and Christian Trinity
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Pagan Trinity Discovered
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Trinity is from Paganism; not found in New Testament - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of Christmas Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of New Years Day Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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Pagan Origins of Easter Exposed - Yahweh Ministry
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The Pagan Trinity - William Winwood Reade
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Mithras: Pagan Origins of Christianity - Robert Beckford
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Resurrection was common amongst many Pagan Gods: Osiris, Horus, Dionysus etc. - Richard Carrier
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Constantine's Pagan Influence on Christianity - Greg Boyd
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Constantine, Mithras and Paganism of the Church Exposed - Simcha Jacobovici
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Paganism in Today's Christian Church - Jim Staley
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Pagan Origins of Easter and Christmas - Jim Staley
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The Pagan Christ - Tom Harpur
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Did Christianity borrow from Paganism? - Shabir Ally on James White
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In 321 AD, Emperor Constantine, a confirmed pagan Sun Worshipper changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday
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Halloween: Pagan or Christian? | Religion For Breakfast
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Constantine worshipped Sol Invictus, the pagan Sun God. Christians today worship the same invincible Sun God - Richard Rives
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Julius Caesar, Romans and Pagan Worship - Ryan Reeves
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Christianity adopted Graeco-Roman Pagan Gods: Mithras and Apollonius - Peleh Ben Avraham
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Pagan Origins of The Cross (Crux)
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Archaeology proves the Israelites worshipped pagan Gods and Goddesses - William Dever
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Pagan Origins of Judaism: Evidence for Israelite Gods, El, Asherah, Adonai, Baal, Elohim and Yahweh
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In Matthew 2:1, the three Kings (Magi) from the East followed a Star to baby Jesus were Pagans? - Tovia Singer
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Mithraism, like other Ancient Near East pagan religions believed in Dying & Rising Gods - NT Wright
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The Bible is not Scripture. Jesus is modelled on Dying & Rising pagan Gods like Osiris, Adonis and Addis - Gary Habermas vs Tim Callahan
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Did the author of Mark copy pagan Homer's Odyssey?
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Christmas on 25 December was a Pagan festival. Early Christians never knew Jesus' exact birth date - BeyondTV
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Origin of the Christmas Tree - Is it Pagan?
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Christmas and Pagan Influences - Robert Breaker
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Easter and Pagan Influences - Robert Breaker
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Christianity and its Pagan Origins - David Brett & John Fisher
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Easter Worship is Pagan Worship - David Brett
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Secret Societies - History of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope, Jesuits, Freemasonry, Idolatory and Paganism - Amazing Discoveries - Walter Veith
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Jesus evolved from Mithras, the Roman pagan God - Fishers Evidence
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Did You Know Christmas is Pagan? - Yahweh Ministry
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Mythical Jesus, Catholics and Engineering of Dates, Events, Gospels and Epistles (Clement & Barnabas) affirming pre-existant pagan Christ cults - Mike Lawrence (NotoriUK)
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Apostle Paul, Paganism and New Testament - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Was Christianity influenced by Graeco-Roman Paganism? - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Paganism, Christianity and Today's Christians - Luke Timothy Johnson
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Tertullian (240 AD), first used 'Trinity' to mean 3 distinct persons, influenced by Pagan Greek Philiosophy
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Christianity adopted the 'Pagan' Bunny which laid Eggs at Easter - Tony Costa & Abdullah Hakim Quick
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Academics acknowledge Pagan Influences on Christianity | Hamza Yusuf
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Christian origins in pagan Sun worship
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Christmas, 25th December was Ancient Pagan festival. Church absorbed it into Christian theology - Doug Michael
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The Christian Church adopted the 'Sun God' Mithras and pagan festivals from Mithraism - Doug Michael
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In 601 AD, Pope Gregory I adopted Pagan customs and festivals into Christian Church - Doug Michael
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In 325 AD, Council of Nicaea created Jesus and Christianity by unifying pagan Gods and beliefs - Doug Michael
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Arguing Bishops at Council of Nicaea voted Pagan rituals into Christianity i.e. Trinity - Doug Michael
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Early Christianity developed as a Jewish version of various pagan, mystery faiths - David Fitzgerald
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Emperor Constantine was a Pagan who praised Sol Invictus throughout his life - David Fitzgerald
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Christian Gospels are Symbolic Fiction; mythical narratives mined from Jewish texts and Pagan myths. Gospels are not history - Richard Carrier
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93% of Romans were polytheist pagans with many Gods. Christians had a 'more powerful' God - Bart Ehrman
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In the ancient world, Jews and pagans believed in many divine beings and Gods - Bart Ehrman
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Paul preached to majority, gentiles, pagans and idolators, who had no interest in Judaism or a Jewish Jesus - Bart Ehrman
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Apostle Paul established Churches, and converted Gentiles, Polytheists and Pagans to Christianity - Bart Ehrman
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Pagans gave up their Gods, and turned to the one Christian, all-powerful, Jealous God - Bart Ehrman
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Apostle Paul taught new Christians, ex-pagans, did not have to convert to Judaism - Bart Ehrman
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Gospels are anonymous, 'romantic', religious propaganda texts, not Historical realities - Charles Hedrick
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In 391 AD, Roman Emperor Theodosius outlawed Paganism and destroyed the Library of Alexandria
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Pagan Origins of Christmas - Abdullah Hakim Quick
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Origins of Christmas, Bible & Pagan Gods
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Christianity stole from Black, Egyptian Pagans - John G Jackson
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Easter: A Christian festival or Pagan? - DM Murdock
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In Jeremiah 10:3, the Christmas Tree is symbolic of the Christian Trinity, not Paganism - Tony Costa
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Christmas, December 25th is under the control of the Devil Satan and Pagan Culture
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Jesus Christ: A pagan Sun God turned into a Jewish Man - Caesar Messiah
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Jesus is too similar to Mythical Pagan Gods: Mithras, Osiris and Heracles. It's no coincidence - Steve Shives
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Trinity is 'veiled' Tri-theism (Three Gods). Combining of Jewish Monotheism with Pagan Polytheism
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The Jesus Story is more Pagan-God, than Historical Truth - Timothy Freke (MythVision) 1/2
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The Jesus Story is more Pagan-God, than Historical Truth - Timothy Freke (MythVision) 2/2
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Eusebius, an early Church Father loyal to Philo of Alexandria, who added the 'God From God' pagan idea to the Nicene Creed in 325 AD - approvedofGod
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Jesus, the 'Begotten God' of the Eternal Father. This is Paganism - approvedofGod
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God is One. He moves by Spirit. He creates through Spoken Word (Trinity is from Pagan philosophy) - approvedofGod
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Pre-Islam Pagan Arabs made idols of Hubal (Moon god), Lat, Uzza, and Manat, but never Allah - Yasir Qadhi
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Yeshua, Yesous, Iesous, Jesus are not derived from Zeus, the Greek pagan God - Michael Heiser
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Many Christian rituals have origins in Pagan customs - Zachary Bauer
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The Black Stone and Safa-Marwa 'most likely' originate from pre-Islam, pagan Arab rituals - Abu Layth
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Political Correctness went Global using Edward Bernays 'Propaganda' techniques - Alan Watt
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Public Mind Control using Edward Bernays propaganda theories
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Edward Bernays: Organizing People using Propaganda and Technology. People ready for common action
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Emperor Constantine merged Pagan and Christian values to define Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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Homoousios ('same substance') first appeared in Poimandres, a 1st century Egyptian Pagan text - Kegan Chandler
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At Council of Nicaea, Constantine quoted Plato, a Pagan philosopher to justify Homoousios ('same substance') - Kegan Chandler
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Lucius Lactantius, advisor to Constantine, harmonized Christianity with Paganism - Kegan Chandler
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Gnostic 'secret knowledge' of God features in Pagan, Christian & Spiritual teachings - Kegan Chandler
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Hermeticism, a pagan form of Gnosticism, believed God is within us all - Kegan Chandler
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Poemandres (Heremetic, Pagan text, c. 50 AD) bears striking textual similarities to John's Gospel - Kegan Chandler
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Evidence that John's Gospel used Poemandres (Hermetic, Pagan, c. 50 AD) as a Source - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel parallels Gnostic-Pagan-Hermetic ideas (dualism, oneness/son of God, trinity, Father etc.) to promote his Jewish-Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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Pagan Rome invented Jesus based on ancient Celestial and Astrotheology - Robert Sullivan IV
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Pagan Dying & Rising Gods parallel the Jesus' story - Robert Price 1/2
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Pagan Dying & Rising Gods parallel the Jesus' story - Robert Price 2/2
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In 70 AD, Rome destroyed the Jerusalem Church, establishing 'Pagan' Trinitarian Christianity - Hamza Saudi
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Virgin Births were common in pagan, Graeco-Roman Mythology. Jesus the God-Man was no different! - Tovia Singer
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COVID Vaccines lack medical scrutiny, forced on us like Russian Government propaganda - Tanya Klymenk
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Pagan Origins of Christianity
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Is the Christmas Tree Pagan? - Tony Costa
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Christianity, a collection of Pre-Christian Pagan Beliefs - David Madison / MythVision
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Pantheon, Roman Temple to the Gods and Idols of pagan Rome
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Ancient Gods and Paganism in Pre-Islam Arabia | Gabriel Reynolds | Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Ancient Pagan Myths Behind Biblical Stories | MythVision
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Hajj at Kabah is a Pagan Ritual? | Al Hakam
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