I’m curious about one other thing, CB
Many of people I have encountered like you who believe Christmas and Easter are pagan also hold the belief that Eve had intercourse with satan and produced cain.
Do you hold the belief that Eve had intercourse with satan and produced cain too?
I can assure you that contention does not come from scripture and you may have deduced by now that my beliefs are based in scripture and not in “people you have encountered”.
In that vein of thought the RCC has this in their Catechism.
# 841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”[330]
Do you serve the same God as the Muslims?
MANY of the people? Just how many people have you met who hold to that view, because for all my connections with non-Catholic Christianity, even I haven't run into that many who hold that view. Just where do you find all these people?
Then point them to this verse.....
Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”
I'm going to bet that CB's response is *No* because he holds to Scripture as authoritative.