What is the historical reason catholics do not eat meat but fish on Friday?
The orthodoxy i.e. the Catholics, brought in many outside traditions into Christian faith, in order to assimlate cultural barriers and win converts. The Goddess Frya was worshipped in the early days just like Mithra and others. When Catholicism won out around a.d. 325, instead of banishing other religions and austrasizing the people, they allowed many of the holidays and customs to continue and in order to win converts they just placed a Christian identity on their festivals. For example, The Roman was god was Mithra, and a celebration took place every year on Dec.25, to celebrate his birthday. Catholics took this date and made it the birthday of Jesus. Just as “Easter” comes from Ishtar, and on the ancient holiday used to celebrate Ishtar (the goddess of fertility), the people would roll eggs in the fields and use a rabbit (a very fertile creature) to represent Fertility. Well, Frya was also a goddess that was worshipped, and her holy day was called “Frya -day” becausee she, according
