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Re: Death Rituals [Re: Tanaj] #13906 - 03/25/02 08:13 AM Edit Reply Quote

Dear Tanaj, But there are many protestant groups, aren't there? For instance the Calvinists, the Lutherans, the Reformists, the Anglicists, etc. A question: Is there a difference between the Anglican Church and the Scottish, Tanaj? (The Catholic Church has a Roman and an eastern Orthodox variant, which has its start partly with the Roman Empire split off and mainly the Church having interpretational differences. The protestant movement is after Middel Ages, as a protest against the (Roman) Catholic monopoly, with persons like Erasmus, Luther and Calvin, etc.). By the way, in Scotland there's much difference between the more 'native' often Catholic Celtic (with links with Ireland) and the more 'imported' Anglican Protestant culture, isn't it? I believe that especially Edinburough (correct spelling?) is an example of the last. I know from soccer that there's a lot of difference. The European Christianised cultures still have many pre-Christian Germanic and Celtic features, like the Christmas Tree, the Celtic Cross, Christmas Day (Wodan's Day-related to Mitra's Day), Santaclaus' (North-)Germanic features, etc. No culture is static, that's why there is so much variety of older and younger and within the younger there are many subcultures. About India, I think that not only the Catholic Church was involved with the missionary activities, because the English soldiers, officers, ruling class and their clergy weren't Catholic. About the death rituals, I think it would be interesting to investigate (if it wasn't done before) which parts are really Christian, which pre-Christian.