Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning?

Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is rooted, not in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles.

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