Historian Will Durant, not a Christian and with no axe to grind, wrote that paganism…
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Historian Will Durant, not a Christian and with no axe to grind, wrote that paganism survived inside the church.
Statues of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus.
The Saturnalia were replaced by Christmas. An old festival of the dead became All Souls’ Day.
His line: paganism passed like maternal blood into the new religion, and captive
Rome captured her conqueror.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNLcH9Gsus