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Evo
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A lot of Christian holidays did not evolve from earlier religions, they were actually stolen (or borrowed, if that sounds nicer). Early Christian priests, when they found that many followers were reverting to paganism because the pagans had more fun feasts, decided to invent Christian holidays that coincided with pagan ones in an attempt to lure people back.Prometheus said:Stolen is a very strong word that is highly loaded.
Religion has been evoving for millennia. The ancient Greek religion of the Olympians evolved out of the religion of the Titans, etc.
Christianity did not appear in a vacuum. It evolved out of earlier religions. To say that it stole from them is like saying that you stole from your teachers, as you incorporate the ideas that they exposed you to.
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