ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agoCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?ryujin470@fedia.io to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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-squareDomeGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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.