Why is Christianity littered with Pagan symbology?
That these ancient myths and customs gradually became an integral part of the Christian religion is not surprising, although it forms one of the mostinteresting and unusual chapters in the development of religions. We may assume, even though he contradicts us, that what makes the Christian shudder is his own abysmal inconsistency, which he has spent nearly two thousand years in furious contentions trying to explain away. It was the avowed purpose of the early Christians to break down nature worship, which in a profligate age, had degenerated into licentious rites as indecent as they were corrupting. By their implacable persistency, the Christians succeeded in closing the temples and destroying the gods. Their mistake in not being able to dissociate a degenerate form of worship from the object worshipped, has dogged them ever since. The Church itself soon saw that neither religions nor human beings can separate themselves from God’s highest revelation to man and live; that to be in tune
