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Why Do Christians Believe in Venerate Myths and Pagan Sex and Fertility Symbols?
If it were not for Paganism, Christianity would be a backwater religion, hated for its aggression of other religions and its anti-humanity stance. Its authenticity was falsely obtained although its followers see its past as a shining light of truth! This is achieved by closing their eyes and ear to the genuine fact that its proof was begotten by fraudulent means. From the canonical Gospels to its earthly temporal kingdom the sole Christian religion for more than a thousand years interpolated its scriptures and obtained its temporal possessions by deceit. Still, conservative Christians turn a blind eye and deny any wrongdoing of their religious past. Yet, it is plain for all to see from its own historical records with scholars agreeing on its past errors.
Trinity Myth
The Trinity was acknowledged throughout the ancient world in India, Greece, Roman empire, Phoenicia, and even amongst the Germanic races.
In the 4th-century BCE, Aristotle wrote:
All things three and thrice is all: and let us use the number in the worship of gods; for as Pythagoreans say, everything and all things are bound by threes, for the end, the middle and the beginning have this number in everything, and these compose the three of Trinity. [Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, Paganism in Our Christianity, 1928, pp. 197-198]
We cannot put a time or date on when most things occurred in the past, we can only surmise when an event happened or when a gospel or the works of a church-father was written. In the case of Clement of Alexandria (150-215), we know he opened his own school in Alexandria, Egypt around 190 CE, and we can hypothesis between that date and 215 CE that he wrote Paedagogos (the second of a trilogy of works) where he was looking for a symbol for Christianity? Well, most Christians would be wrong if they say that the earliest Christian symbol of his day was the Cross. Which was centuries in the future, the Anchor would be a better certainty, as the Fish came after with the Cross being adopted by Christianity in mid-6th-century. We know that the Cross was not mentioned in the first three or more centuries as being Christian.
Christianity Adopting Ancient Pagan Symbols
Clement also advocated using the visual arts in worship at a time when some early Christians were reluctant to employ painting or drawing, fearing attention to their work might constitute idolatry. Clement concluded that Christians are not to depict pagan gods, nor sword or bow, nor wine cups, nor reminders of sexual immorality. Clement wrote:
Instead, “Let our emblem be a dove, or a fish, or a ship running before the wind, or a musician’s lyre, or a ship’s anchor. And if there be a fisherman, he will remind us of an apostle, and little children being drawn up out of the water.”[Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogos, iii.II] This was some 170 years after the execution of their saviour on a mythical Roman cross, which according to ancient Greek biblical text was a Stauros (upright Stake) and not a Cross. Clement did not mention the Chi-Rho, which Eusebius invented circa 320/5. Also, the Dove, Anchor, Fish, Cross and Chi-Rho are all Pagan origin with most being sexual symbols!
See also https://www.patheos.com/blogs/removingthefigleaf/2016/11/vagina-power/
The Cross in most ancient culture represented sexual organs the Phallic/Penis and the Yoni/Vagina?
The Fish which represented the female genitalia was a major ancient symbol of fertility and rebirth.
The Dove was the Love symbol of the Greek goddess Aphrodite aka Venus in Roman mythology.
The Anchor (first Christian symbol) appeared as the royal emblem of Seleucus I (305-281 BCE) the first king of the Seleucid dynasty established after Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) Death. Seleucus I reputedly chose the symbol because he had a birthmark in the shape of an anchor, it is also said that his son and grandson had the same mark. The Jews living under the Seleucid empire adopted the Anchor symbol on their coinage up and until 100 BCE.
The Chi-Rho (the symbol has its origin in Plato’s X)—Pagan. The Chi-Rho can be seen on the Egyptian coinage of Ptolemy III, Euergetes (r. 246–222 BCE) on the reverse (tails) side between the Eagles legs.
Pagan Origin in Christianity
The eminent Catholic Cleric Newman, on Paganism, wrote:
We are told in various ways by Eusebius,7 that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments which they had been accustomed in their own…The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holy days and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison,8 are all of Pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church….[John Henry (Cardinal) Newman, (1906 edition), Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, p. 373, Longmans & Co, London—New York and Bombay]
7 V. Const. iii. 1, iv. 23, &c.
8 According to Dr E. D. Clarke, Travels, vol. I. p. 352
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