My Christianity is taken from the Bible, not a lot of pagan compromise found there.
Good for you,
just dont listen to ANYTHING that has come out of rome or any other organized christian organization and you may yet live by just the true teachings of jesus christ. I truly do wish you luck in that, i mean no sarcasm in that.
Take what the jews know of Yahweh and add in the new testiment and leave it at that.
At least with Christianity, Judaism, ((shudder)) Islam, Hinduism, and even Zoroastrianism we can trace them from their beginnings and know where the practitioners are being true to their beliefs.
These earth religions are recent fantasies built around a smattering of ancient artifacts with no frames of reference to say what was or wasn’t of religious significance. As far as Christianity using old pagan symbols, It makes sense for a smart religion to do that but it really doesn’t matter because of the religious significance behind them.
I used to work with two wiccans from different sides of town and they hated each other because both claimed to be wiccan but neither could agree to what the rites were or what anything meant.