Pagan names for stuff

[GordonP]

I wonder why they didn’t stick with “the Lord’s Day” for Sunday.

They believe that every day is the Lord’s day. They are not required to hold their day of worship on Sunday, though most do, more out of habit and convenience.

Sunday is a day just like any other day to them. They do not have a liturgical calendar, and attach no particular significance to any days or times of the year. They don’t celebrate Christmas or Easter, either.

Here is an article explaining it (read the fourth paragraph):

https://spiritualray.com/quakers-religious-society-of-friends

 

[meltzerboy2]

However, they probably avoid eating devil’s food cake and instead stick to angel food cake. And none that I know of have a devil-may-care attitude.

 

[GordonP]

However, they probably avoid eating devil’s food cake and instead stick to angel food cake.

Kinda reminds me of how sauerkraut was renamed “Liberty cabbage” during WWI, or how French fries were renamed “Freedom fries” during the first Gulf War.

 

[BartholomewB]

And none that I know of have a devil-may-care attitude.

Not even Richard M. Nixon?

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

In or around the year 570, he changed the names of the days of the week, dropping the pagan names and adopting, instead, the numbering (“second day,” “third day,” etc.) in use in Church Latin.

The Quakers used to do this, too.

 

[BartholomewB]

Anyway, the people who went to numbered days of the week were the Greeks, the Portuguese, and the Irish. Obviously they were the ones with more problems.

Using numbers rather than names for the days of the week comes originally from Hebrew, I believe. Sunday is “the first day”, as also in New Testament Greek. The only day that has a name rather than a number is Saturday, Shabbat, the day of rest.

 

[GordonP]

Not even Richard M. Nixon?

Nixon was brought up a Quaker, but he stopped practicing any religion when he was in college, and drifted from vague Christianity to vague Deism soon afterword.

He did like Billy Graham and Vincent Norman Peal, though. On the other hand, his talks and correspondence with Graham were limited to questions of policy and politics, and rarely involved religion.

 

[rossum]

In studying Greek/Roman paganism, I discovered how many English words are either the names of gods or are directly related to pagan religous practices.

You mean like Easter being named after the Saxon goddess Eostre, the goddess of spring.