Talk:Christianized sites

This page needs rewriting. At the moment it is stuffed full of POV stuff which is simply not true, and which quite a lot of people know is not true. I have made some minor deletions of crassly mistaken material, but it still needs a complete rewrite. A genuine page on churches built on the sites of temples would be most interesting, of course. What we do not need, surely is a piece asserting "Christianity=paganism" and decorated with a few bits of hearsay. This is what we have at the moment. Take the assertion out, I suggest, and put more facts and references in.

I have deleted the assertion about Origen and Contra Celsum -- it contains no such passage.

Material about the supposed Mithraeum on Vatican hill has been examined lately in [Internet Infidels] and shown to be bogus -- no Mithraeum was ever built there -- and arising from confusion with the adjacent Phyrgianum.

There is a picture of Helios (NOT Mithras!) in one of the tombs, which needs to be retained. But it can't be Sol Invictus -- the tomb dates to 250-ish, and Sol Invictus was only created in 274. I'm not sure how to rewrite this text to conform to reality, so have left it alone.

Roger Pearse 15:20, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

The Vatican section... Come again?

The section on the Vatican reads like it came from the POV pen of Loraine Boettner himself. I don't know how much fact there is behind this, but I do know that it's an ineffective way to attack Catholicism -- there's no tradition that I (a pretty well-educated cradle Catholic) know of that links the legitimacy of the Catholic Faith to the presence of St. Peter's bones under the Vatican, though I seem to remember hearing that Boettner tries to make some hay on the subject. This section needs a rewrite by someone who has an axe to grind with neither Catholicism nor Mithraism, and the original author seems to have had a vendetta against both. (As to Sol Invictus, he's an interesting subject but a rather flimsy stick to bash much of anything with: first appearing around 200 as the borderline-self-deification of the Romans' Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and generally closer to Mithraism and Christianity than to ancient Rome in 'tone' -- not a god Gibbon would have approved of, I think. Halos, by the way, are hardly unique to the West.)

I don't imagine anyone is seriously watching and looking to argue about this page, so I'll see about researching and rewriting it further (I've already done some copy-editing); this is certainly a subject worthy of effective coverage... ExOttoyuhr (talk) 21:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

summit cross

Christianizing the site is the essential point of the erection of a summit cross, which has no other purpose. However, User:Bermicourt, the owner of that article, has done me the discourtesy of reverting my edit, mentioning Christianizing the site. --Wetman (talk) 08:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Merge

Merged content from Conversion of non-Christian places of worship into churches. Mannanan51 (talk) 16:48, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Why is the title Christianized sites?

Other articles about the conversion of notable places of worship from one religion into another follow a consistent format. I found articles on Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques and Conversion of non-Hindu places of worship into temples, yet this article is titled Christianized sites. Why isn't this article titled Conversion of non-Christian places of worship into churches?