How would this rather unusual claim [of a resurrected Messiah] or message have fallen on the average pagan ... the old gods. To the Christians it becomes loyalty to the God of Jesus Christ.

I believe that it was the religion's particular doctrines that permitted Christianity to be among the most sweeping and successful revitalization movements in history. And it was the way these ...

and even the duties that the gods and goddesses performed. Just as the names of the month have pagan roots, so do the days of the week. Each name is traditional and has some meaning behind it.

One Frankish archbishop complained that many converts reverted to pagan ways and ... powerful than other gods but was indeed the only God. All others were demons. That Christ had triumphed in ...

Having dedicated his life to the study of scapegoating as the origin of culture ... people to mythologize their victims into gods. Over time, pagan communities commemorated these gods through ...

As early as the first century, Christians made an acrostic from this word: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ ... I don't find the pagan argument compelling.

Lyrics for the rap song, B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth), include the following line: "The white image, ...

and now I've arrived at what looks like another pagan god ... try to show the face of Christ - probably taken because the Roman elite were so used to seeing their gods in statues, paintings ...

We all know our astrological sign and its characteristics. However, few of us know the origins of the signs traced back to ...

(For the Slavic Myth ... the pagan cult had been extirpated even earlier following the conversion to Christianity in the 10th century. Stribog – god of wealth and winds. Mokosh – one of the few female ...

and now I've arrived at what looks like another pagan god ... try to show the face of Christ - probably taken because the Roman elite were so used to seeing their gods in statues, paintings ...