Hanging around on Yahoo!Answers, I come across of a lot of claims that Christianity is pagan, or at least questions of "Is Christianity pagan?"
People need to start learning the meaning of words, because no matter where you think Christian ideas originate, claiming that Christianity is non-Christian is a nonsensical statement.
As for the claim itself: sure, Christianity borrowed from pagan culture, because it was the only culture from which to borrow! New ideas always build upon old ideas.
But many of the specific examples commonly given are grossly exaggerated or even outright wrong. And, regardless, borrowing pagan ideas doesn't make something pagan. Christianity borrowed a TON from Judaism, but no one suggests that Christianity is really Jewish.
The Absurdness of the Christian=Pagan Argument
5/14/2011 08:04:00 PM | history, other religions, paganism | 1 comments »
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Christianity is essentialy Jewish. It is based on Jewish religious ideas, scriptures and prophecies.
Nearly all the early christians were Jewish. The New Testament quotes extensively from the Old.
The Roman Catholic Church is to blame for integrating a lot of pagan practices into christianity.
But Christianity never borrowed from Mithraism or any other pagan religion, cotrary to popular belief (which is wrong)