Snake worship in Church?

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Have you BEEN to an Orthodox service? Do you find any snake worship in their liturgies? Or in their prayers? Or in their saints?

No…
 
Yes I’ve been to their service. I did not find any overt signs of snake worship. I did however briefly encounter one of their gold clad bishops with a huge snakes staff and I found it quite odd that i would find such a thing in the Church setting. Im not pretending that secretly all eastern catholic/orthodox bishops worship snakes but just friendly pointing out that it made me rethink some questions.
 
I read up that apparently they use it to symbolize the staff of Moses in the desert but they look more akin to Hermes staff which I already pointed out. Perhaps someone is playing copycat.
 
The Orthodox (and Catholic) Churches are the traditions of the Great Councils. These very clearly defined who is to be worshipped: God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
 
I read up that apparently they use it to symbolize the staff of Moses in the desert but they look more akin to Hermes staff which I already pointed out. Perhaps someone is playing copycat.
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Even if this were the case, merely copying an art form should not bother us. The wedding ring had pagan precursors as well. Pagans also used water in their rituals. Nothing about these things are inherently anti-Christian. Snakes are creatures of God.
 
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Yes I’ve been to their service. I did not find any overt signs of snake worship. I did however briefly encounter one of their gold clad bishops with a huge snakes staff and I found it quite odd that i would find such a thing in the Church setting. Im not pretending that secretly all eastern catholic/orthodox bishops worship snakes but just friendly pointing out that it made me rethink some questions.
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As I said, did you read the link provided?

I literally found the answer within about sixty seconds of your posing the question.
 
Again, I’m not saying the crozier had a pagan precursor, but even if it did, that shouldn’t bother us. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches stretch back two thousand years, so incorporation and evolution within other cultures seems more foreign to us nowaways, especially when such cultures are still expressed (say, Latin in liturgy, or Eastern iconography in a Byzantine church).

But the fact is, ALL Christian traditions do the same thing – they take things from the surrounding culture (be it music or art or symbolism or clothing or concepts or language) and incorporate it and make it Christian.

It just doesn’t seem as odd or foreign or “pagan” when the Protestant church down the street does it, because that Protestant church is likely very new.
 
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Which was where I got the link to the whole article I posted. Yep.
 
No, no bad at all.

Makes the point for both of us, I think.

Google is awesome. 🙂
 
This is what happend when you give millennials fancy new phones without parental supervision.
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As I understand it, “millennials” refers to anyone now under 38 years of age.

We aren’t all the same!
 
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Sorry I can’t ask a proper question on a forum for a response. I’m aware that google exists and read a full article on this subject before posting. You boomers are so pretentious and think that you own the world it’s quite humorous.
 
Still formulating a response. I need time because obviously others replies made sense to what I was thinking offhand.
 
Some of the posters are too young to be Boomers. Please do not categorize Boomers as someone who disagrees with you.
 
I think you are referring to Generation Z which the eldest just recently would have turned of voting age 18. Millennials is a misnomer that implies that anyone born on or after the year 2000 must be a Millennial when it spans nearly three decades.
 
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. Numbers 21:9.
 
Either you read the link or you didn’t. Either you read the article or you dismissed it.
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Some of the posters are too young to be Boomers. Please do not categorize Boomers as someone who disagrees with you.
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I’m a Gen Xer - an older one, born in 1973. There’s no snake worship in the Eastern Churches.
 
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