ryujin470 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 months agoCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?message-square32fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1message-squareCan Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?ryujin470 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@xmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink2•2 months 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-square@DomeGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 months 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.