ryujin470 to No Stupid [email protected] • 3 months agoCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?message-square29fedilinkarrow-up117
arrow-up117message-squareCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?ryujin470 to No Stupid [email protected] • 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoMaybe the Jewish faith has kept to that but Christians have a long tradition of practicing syncretism and priests were happy just to get a Danish king to say “Hail Odin the all father and Freyr’s might and uh… also the Christian God I guess.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoThere’s plenty of references in the OT to Jews doing the same thing. And European Christianity chased out worship of anyone save the God of Abraham rather violently after a generation or two.
Maybe the Jewish faith has kept to that but Christians have a long tradition of practicing syncretism and priests were happy just to get a Danish king to say “Hail Odin the all father and Freyr’s might and uh… also the Christian God I guess.”
There’s plenty of references in the OT to Jews doing the same thing.
And European Christianity chased out worship of anyone save the God of Abraham rather violently after a generation or two.