How to Share the Gospel with Pagans by Gwydion

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2. Oh and PeeEss:

Christians will not like what I have written about their own history with Pagan people. I have only covered Far Eastern contacts, there are even more European and African contacts that would just make them veclept. But it is the truth that we Christians have basically tried to hide our own affiliation with paganism.

An East Indian Christian friend told me once of the history of her church in Kerala. When the Portuguese invaded India in the 1500s and found their church ~ which had no statues that is a strict Jewish law taken directly from the 10 Commandments (not to have any graven images). This church also contained a beloved letter from the Thomas who was Jesus' friend and devout Jew. They said it was not really a church and burned it to the ground. You know why? Because it contained no statues like the Roman Catholic church ~ statues that were taken directly from Roman and Greek gods who were transferred into the Christian representatives of their own religious figures.

The point I am making is that Christianity is rife with Paganism at its very root, and while we like to pretend it only worships "one God" the truth is we have many gods. Whether it is the mother Mary, a saint, even Jesus, they all represent a side of God with Whom we can relate, which, as has been true throughout the time of humanity, it is just the best way for many to relate to All That Is.

Love, Cat