Bishop's Mitre similar to Dagon headgear?

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I know I’ll get some dirty looks for this. But please understand this is a genuine question about why do our Bishops wear something very similar to what ancient Priests wore in the cult of Dagon?

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I love our Priests and Bishops and our faith. I just need a reason to explain this, if some anti-Catholic somehow shows me this I need to know how to refute any claims they could say about it
 
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The reason is called “coincidence”. They do happen from time to time.

Did you know that the Pope today wears robes? Do you know who else worry robes? Hitler coming out of the shower. The Church is based on Nazism. Illuminati confirmed.

My point being, you can draw connections that aren’t really there if you only look at things in a superficial way.
 
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More to the point. Look at the Dagon priest. He’s wearing a fish. That’s a fish head on his head and the cape is fish scales.

The mitre isn’t a fish. Doesn’t look anything like a fish.
 
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More to the point. Look at the Dagon priest. He’s wearing a fish. That’s a fish head on his head and the cape is fish scales.

The mitre isn’t a fish. Doesn’t look anything like a fish.
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I guess you’re right. Thanks again 🙂
 
I always like to point out that pagans invented bathing and public swimming pools. Guess we’re all pagans now. 😉 And wedding rings? Oop…pagan again. Monotheism? A pagan Egyptian Pharaoh (Akhenaten) thought of it first, thus monotheism is pagan.
The fact is, all these coincidences should give us all the more confidence in our faith. Since God created the whole universe, it should not surprise us to find similarities throughout different beliefs, since all people are naturally drawn to discover the truth, and the truth will naturally reveal itself no matter where it is or who is looking at it.
 
Doesn’t the miter have its roots in the headwear of the Jewish high priest?
 
Sorry but i laughed…very entertaining post 🙂
 
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For people who think that image shows the Pope is a pagan priest no explanation will convince them otherwise.
 
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well some people will do anything to paint the church as something its not. Sorry if it was a dumb question…
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I don’t think it was a dumb question. I have been confronted with that very picture at least twice by anti-Catholics. If it were a 1-on-1 conversation, you could just laugh it off and move on. But when it’s in a public setting, or online with an unknown audience, being able to argue back with logic may potentially shed some light for folks who didn’t see it before. The person making the charge? Nah…probably not going to convince that person.
 
I personally am very distrustful of any and and all persons who wear a hat of any kind, except John Paul II of course. I have found the flying nuns to be very trustworthy, however. (See below.)
 
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I just need a reason to explain this,
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“Dag” is Hebrew for “fish” and Dagon is a fish-god, as your illustration makes clear.

The miter is said to have evolved from an earlier headdress worn by Christian clergy called the camelaucum, being supposedly made from camel hair. The camelaucum was a rigid conical cap, and at some unknown date someone started making them on a new pattern, so that they could be easily folded and put away in drawers. That was when the camelaucum became a miter.

Some more trivia, while we’re at it:

The chess piece called the “bishop” (in English, though not in most other languages) is nowadays conventionally made in the form of a miter. The double-pointed slit top of the piece originated, however, as a stylized depiction of an elephant’s tusks, since in India, where the game was invented, the piece was called the “elephant”.
 
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  1. Seriously, you can make an analogy out of anything if you’re willing to ignore all the evidence that the analogy is not valid. The anti-Catholic reasoning goes like this: “The pope wears a hat. The dragon guy wears a hat. They are both hats, they are both worn on the head and neither has a flat top. Therefore, Catholicism is the same as paganism”. You can see how ridiculous that line of reasoning is. I have Kindergarteners on my caseload who could point out the error in that type of “deductive reasoning”.
  2. Even if the bishop’s miter and the dragon guys fish hat were THE EXACT SAME THING, that doesn’t define Catholicism, or it’s teachings or the fullness of its Truth. The reason we are Catholics is not because of what head ornamentation the Pope wears or even because of the existence of the Pope but rather because we know that the Catholic church contains the fullness of Truth and is the Church established by Christ, containing His teachings. The Pope could go out with a Medusa hat or an Isis hat or a Baal hat or any other pagan hat and, while I wouldn’t like it, it would not change the teachings of the Church one bit.
  3. Anti-catholics depend on being able to use offense, ridiculousness and confrontational tactics to twist what you say around until your entire argument for Catholicism seems to depend on what kind of hat the Pope wears. Don’t even let yourself be baited into that type of argument. It benefits no one and is utterly useless.
 
The current shape is just the product of a long evolutionary history. If it was truly patterned after Dagon, it would have looked that way from the beginning.
 
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