American literalism started the 20th century trying to sell the sizzle of dispensationalism and ended the 20th century preaching and teaching the exact opposite of everything it taught at the beginning of the century except for the Best Selling Christ Surrenders to Satan and Evacuates Party People doctrine it had refined dispensationalism into.
Dispensationalism and Evacuation doctrine is part of the strong delusion that's led this country to it's current paganism. It's really funny how folks who side with the queer promoting, infanticide promoting, mega-church crowd like to repeat the lie that the Catholic Church embraced paganism while at the same time sacrificing their own children to Moloch in return for the promise of prosperity exactly like Carthaginians routinely did.
“We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early period took them into her service, just as she adopted many other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper to enhance the splendor of religious ceremonial. We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship, like music, lights, perfumes, ablutions, floral decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments etc. were not identified with any idolatrous cult in particular; but they were common to almost all cults” (Catholic Encyclopedia, III, 246.)
“When we give or receive Christmas gifts; or hang green wreaths in our homes and churches, how many of us know that we are probably observing pagan customs...the god, Woden, in Norse Mythology, descends upon the earth yearly between December 25th and January 6th to bless mankind...But pagan though they be, they are beautiful customs. They help inspire us with the spirit of 'good will to men', even as the sublime service of our Church reminds us of the ‘peace on earth’ which the babe of Bethlehem came to bestow” (Externals of the Catholic Church, 140).
Catholics can’t deny that the RCC has incorporated pagan practices into its practices. The RCC itself admits that it does.
Whole lotta stuff in this claim.
Cute!