AmericanPapist Comments
Peace? Personally I find the prospect of eternity in Hell for committing idolatry, blasphemy, and relativism quite unsettling.
Christ: "Behold I make all things new."
Satan: "Behold I make all new things old."
Seriously. What is the novelty in reviving the sadistic faith of infanticide, slavery, and classism? No Pagan idea can claim to be the foundation of our most treasured values.
It would be healthier and more novel to play in a garbage heap.
Persephone? I must be really stupid. Where did that come from?
I have a friend who is just like this. She seems to think that somehow paganism is compatible with Christianity. She says she is Christian religiously and pagan culturally.
So certainly prayers are indeed needed for their conversion.
What's wrong with class-ism?
WOW! I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a Catholic or not (I'm searching for the truth)... but the more intolerent and hateful voices I see across the internet... The less I think that this is the religioun for me. I mean... there's a whole lot of judging going on and I can't imagine it is what Jesus would want. Thanks for helping me make up my mind!!
Sarah- If you want a nonjudgmental, Oprah-like dumbed down religion that conforms to whatever you personally feel is the truth, Catholicism definitely isn't the religion for you.
But if you want truth, no compromise of the truth (Christ never compromised; he was forgiving but definitely judgmental, which is why the liberals of the time wanted to kill Him), "doctrine, dogma, history, [2000] years of religious practice, the inheritance of Rome and the classical world, and a deep philosphical heritage," Catholicism is for you.
The quote above is from H.W. Crocker III's Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, one of the texts we used in my Church History class this semester at Christendom graduate school. I would really recommend it if you are truly interested in the Catholic Church, the Church Christ Himself instituted for our safety and salvation.
Sarah,
Catholics judge fruits - both good and bad, but never a person or someone's soul.
I have to ask---
To whom, exactly, is Persephone supposed to pray? I mean, if she's a goddess, doesn't she just have the power to grant the petitioner's wish on her own? Yes, I recognize that the Persephone prayer is deliberately echoing the "Hail Mary," but it's illogical for it to do so. After all, Mary's not a goddess and Persephone is.
Someone needed to put more thought into this, methinks.
Rosaries and prayer beads were around and in use in long before the Christian Rosary.
The malas of Asia have been used in Buddhist and Hindu practices for a ver, very long time. Buddhism and Hinduism are technically pagan, as the are not one of the three Abrahamic faiths. One could then say that the rosary was a pagan invention.
Either way, people say "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Regardless of what faith invented the rosary, many people of many different faiths count prayers and chants using beads.
(For those who do not know, Persephone is an ancient Greek Goddess who was unwillingly made queen of the dead. She figures heavily into the Greek myth of how the seasons began to happen.)
Kate B.- Mythologically speaking, Persephone, while a goddess, does not have absolute power. Her husband, Hades, her father Zeus and her mother, Demeter all have more power than she does, and supposing that someone did follow a Hellenistic/Olymipan style paganism, it would make sense for Persephone to ask for interscession on her children's/child's (the petitioner's) behalf from Hades, Zeus or Hera
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