jaan - 04-30-10
PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
Historically, pagan Babylon worshiped the sun as a deity, and pagan Rome also worshiped The Invincible Sun.
The Roman Catholic Church, with the assistance
of Caesar s civil Sunday Law (in the time of...
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jaan - 04-30-10
PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
Historically, pagan Babylon worshiped the sun as a deity, and pagan Rome also worshiped The Invincible Sun.
The Roman Catholic Church, with the assistance
of Caesar s civil Sunday Law (in the time of Constantine), transferred the Sabbath rest to the Sun Day, and commonly used images and symbols of the sun.
Catholicism has clearly adopted many pagan sunburst images used by the Catholic Church in various forms of art.
King Ashur nasir-pal II, King of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC, was known for his brutality.
Note the wrist band
on his left hand.
John XXIII Pontifex Maximus wears the same symbol on his glove.
This is a tablet from the early 9th century B.
C.
, which depicts the Babylonian sun-god Shamash seated on the right holding
emblems of his authority, a staff and ring.
In the center, on an altar, is a large 4-point sun image, with small wavy rays between
the points.
The diagram of the Catholic altar shows th
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