Re: Religious Book Discusion Groups

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:55:14 GMT, B <BGKent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> But I still fail go understandf why a person would pattern their lives
on a
>> Pagan Christ or a Pagan Jesus.  And I still don't understand the very
terms.
>> Blessings,
>> Ann
>
>B = pagan comes from the latin paganus which was used by the Romans to
>put down the simple country folk who did not wor****p the way they and
>the city folk did. It was later used to mean anyone not of the
>Abrahamic faiths.

Pagan - origin of the term.
         Source: Fox 1987:30.
    "In antiquity, pagans already owed a debt to Christians.
  Christians first gave them their name, pagani... In everyday
  use, it meant either a civilian or a rustic. Since the
  sixteenth century the origin of the early Christians' usage
  has been disputed, but of the two meanings, the former is the
  likelier. Pagani were civilians who had not enlisted through
  baptism as soldiers of Christ against the powers of Satan. By
  its word for non-believers, Christian slang bore witness to
  the heavenly battle which coloured Christians' view of life."

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