Pagan Origins of Christianity

Christianity has pagan origins. This has been known for hundreds of years and is easily proven. The pagan origins of Christianity and for that matter Judaism and even Islam have fascinated me for many years. What does 'pagan' mean? The term pagan comes from 'paganes', a Latin word meaning country person, or in other words, not a city sophisticate. It was coined by the Romans and curiously, later became attached to the principal Graeco-Roman cults, of the Olympian gods and goddesses, as well as others. The irony is that Christianity itself has pagan origins and we'll be discussing them. This video is a basic taster but there will be many more. https://youtu.be/dBlYfxKqo3o The origins of Christianity lie far back in time, even before civilisation first appeared in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Naturally, our first recordings are from after that, because previous cultures did not write and so their mythologies were oral traditions. But the earliest religious mytholo