Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-1657156-20130413051827/@comment-173.27.9.54-20131215180218

Marshall Silverman Said:

"Most people would be suprised as to how far `modern` christianity has deviated from its original message, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism and Islam are an indirect form of Satan and Pagan worship. I dare any religious people get in an argument with me on that."

Challenge accepted.

This probably isn't all his argument but it is all he gives.

"Fun Fact. Nowhere in the Bible does it mention that Jesus is born on decempber 25, infact it says that He was born in the summer. And nowhere in the Bible does it say that Sunday is the day to worship God, it says that the day for that is Saturday. Easter is a pagan festival dedicated to the worship of the Sun and the pagan god Ishtar, none of these `hollidays` have anything to do with Jesus or True Christianity. Am am an atheist to the Bone, and i can tell you that no other religion has been mangled the same way as Christianity."

Silverman seems to be under the impression this is a faith shaking revelation. He'd be surprised then to learn that Christians know all of this. Ancient Christians adapted pagan holidays to their ideas. So what? That doesn't mean Christians actually worship Ishtar on Easter or ever did. With that sort of logic, he might as well say that atheists who spend time with family on Christmas are actually celebrating Jesus' birth.

The following claim deserves special attention:

"And nowhere in the Bible does it say that Sunday is the day to worship God, it says that the day for that is Saturday."

Once again, not a big secret. However, our atheist agitator doesn't realize this is an argument that even the earliest Christians believed in the ressurection of Christ. They (being almost entirely Jewish) near universally switched their day of worship to sunday in commemoration of the miracle. Wouldn't have happened if that belief was fabricated later on. Also, Acts 20:7 indicates even the earliest believers worshipped on sunday.

So, we recognize these Holidays as human inventions. No one ever said they were anything else. No one ever thought they were divine revelations.

Well, that's an answer to your challenge. Here's a challenge for you. Since you're so spectacularly wrong on this, consider whether you might have rushed to shoddy conclusions on your other beliefs.

Disvedana.