The word Yule means ?wheel,? the wheel being a Pagan symbol ... The church knew the difference between the Pagan holiday and the resurrection of Christ.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin30.html

The Catholic Church wanted to eclipse the festivities of a rival pagan religion ... He incorporated several symbols of Christ's love and sacrifice through the Candy Cane.
http://wilstar.com/xmas/xmassymb.htm

Now, for all of those who venerate the cross of Jesus Christ, are they venerating a pagan symbol? Those who accuse Catholics of pagan worship cannot have it both ways.
http://home.inreach.com/bstanley/pagan.htm

The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light: Tom Harpur: Amazon.ca: Books ... the narrative material of the Hebrew and Greek Bible was interpreted as myth or symbol ...
http://www.amazon.ca/Pagan-Christ-Recovering-Lost-Light/dp/0887621457

They are essentially identical to that of the pagan sun symbol worn by Assyrian kings over 800 years before the time of Christ.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/verita.htm

The (Easter) bunny, the oldest pagan symbol of fertility - Semiramis - has absolutely NOTHING to do with the birth of Christ. Nor does the Sunrise service.
http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/holidays2.htm

... as it may seem, the Catholic church, which professes to worship Christ, admittedly has accepted pagan ... Yule means wheel, which is applied as the pagan symbol of the sun. Today ...
http://godkind.org/pagan-holidays.html

Traditionally, this is the time of year when most Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Over time, Christmas came to incorporate numerous pagan symbols.
http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/magazine/pagan.html

Would most Christians happily dispense with the pagan symbols in their holidays? ... Candy canes represent a shepard's crook, and are thus a symbol of Christ.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080721181750AAiyySc

Acharya S and her Christ Conspiracy are simply the latest recycling of the general ... Parallel for Christianity? Baal of Hay; Is the Christian fish symbol derived from pagan symbols? ...
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html

... CROSS A PAGAN SYMBOL? ... being a pagan religious symbol of death, for true Christians, the cross has become the symbol of eternal life in Christ.
http://www.4jehovah.org/wdgr_s03q05.php

ancient pagan symbols elisabeth goldsmith two dragons phrygians genealogical tree: ... The latter showing the genealogy of Christ is found in the Jesse windows in ...
http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_ancientpagan22.htm

Peter's Basilica in the Vatican has the Pagan symbols within the papal ... how this and other pagan festivals en­tered the church of Christ: "How much the date of the festival ...
http://www.remnantofgod.org/xmas.htm

pagan signs symbols ... up with the military imagery of the early Church (e.g. milites "soldier of Christ ...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pagan

What are we to do with all these "Christian" symbols that have pagan (satanic) roots? Absolutely nothing. And what agreement does Christ have with Belial?
http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/pagan/origin_fish_symbol.htm

... was pagan & celebrated in Europe long before anyone there had heard of Jesus Christ. ... The word Yule itself means ?wheel,? the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun.
http://www.essortment.com/all/christmaspagan_rece.htm

... Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects," that the acronym pertaining to Jesus Christ was a "rationale invented after the fact... Christians simply copied this pagan symbol along ...
http://www.atheists.org/christianity/fish.html

A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos Compiled by the Anti ... Pagan Symbols Co-opted by Extremists
http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/default.asp

The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?: Tom Harpur: Books ... literalists. ?The transcendent meaning of glorious myths and symbols was reduced to ...
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And, of course, anything can become an idol, whether it has "pagan" origins or not. To summarize, the cross of Christ has rich meaning for Christians as a powerful symbol of their ...
http://www.wcg.org/lit/jesus/cross.htm

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... that God had blessed the Druids with prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ. ... the alarm, lest their fellow Christians unwittingly offend God by use of a pagan symbol.
http://www.celtarts.com/pagan.htm

Copyright-free images of Pagan Symbols from my personal collection for you to use in your art ... of Jesus; Nativity; Life of Jesus; Images of Jesus Christ; Jesus ...
http://karenswhimsy.com/pagan-symbols.shtm

Amazon.com: The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light: Tom Harpur: Books ... the narrative material of the Hebrew and Greek Bible was interpreted as myth or symbol ...
http://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christ-Recovering-Lost-Light/dp/0802714498

54 Responses to ?Pagan symbol battle gets political? Dale says: April 24, 2007, at 7 ... prevented from backdating itself by the fact that the historical person of Jesus Christ ...
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=2369

The Cross - an Emblem of Christianity explains how this simplest of symbols has evolved from its Pagan ... To proclaim themselves slaves of Christ, early monks began to shave their ...
http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/pagan-symbols.html

... the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits? The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan ...
http://altreligion.about.com/cs/alchemy/a/mpreviss.htm