Have You Ever Considered.....

[Eve Appleton]

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MARK YOUR EVERY WORD

Has it ever occurred to you that use of the word Pagan, is equal to calling someone the "N" word. Well, if you knew your history, it would have. Heathen, falls into the same category. These are both derogatory terms.

While Pagan, comes from the Latin root "paganus"; and heathen from the germanic root "heiden"; paganus, meaning country dweller, and heiden, meaning hidden; these terms, were used to refer to country dwellers who'd not adopted Cannon religious practices. Remember, back then religion and state had not yet separated. Religion was the same as government, which had taken stronghold in the cities, and by force, through the banning and brutal consequences, of any other religious practice than those proclaimed by the Cannons, who were the Imperialists and Elite. This forced the country dwellers (many of whom escaped to the country to preserve the practice of their religious beliefs), to perform their ceremonies in hiding.

Today, Orthodox Christianity, continues to use these terms in association with people they consider to be of lesser class and religion, which is any way of life other then Orthodox Christianity. The irony being, the Cannon's, had no God, rather had adopted pagan religious ceremony into their governmental practices to persuade resistant "pagans", to conform to their way of life; and this because killing resisters had become so mainstream, they began to realize they wouldn't have any servants left to do their work if they kept killing them.

Still today, in their way of belief and use of the terms, "pagans" and "heathens" are considered satanic worshipers. To use these terms is providing an empowerment to this way of thinking.

Stop it!




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