Snake worship in Church?

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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.
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I was a senior in high school when you were born. So to me you are young.
 
So was my brother. You’re hardly old to me.

My mom is likely your mom’s age.

To be fair I find I think more like a boomer in many ways over a Gen Xer as my parents are both children of the Depression. For years most people my age annoyed me, and I think it was because I was raised by their grandparents, essentially.
 
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I was with Moses when he was wandering in the desert, so I’ve got you both beat!
 
When talking to European Pagans they all claim that the Church “stole” their ideas. The fact is we can’t rule out that certain groups of Pagans superficially adopted Christianity and put an emphasis on certain pagan aspects to further their false worship. We can see all these old fertility rites on full display at Easter with the coloring of eggs and Maypoll festivals ect. I think these early unconverted Pagans probably all died out but the old traditions remained. I do not see a need to reform the Church to remove these symbols if the people sincerely no longer care for what they stood for.
 
No, but your young compadres are basically helpless.
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IDK, in some ways, the young people of today are more compassionate and certain views are more commonsense among them (like racism is bad).
 
I think this thread is more about making a point than it is about wanting an answer.
 
I assumed that almost from the start.

Not even about a point. More like about stirring the pot.
 
I’ve got all of you beat. My ears are still ringing from the Big Bang.
 
In Numbers (I think), after God sent the poisonous snakes on the ungrateful Israelites, God tells Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it upon a cross-staff (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) and anyone who looked on it would be healed. I expect that this is the reason behind the serpent-entwined Eastern Orthodox staff.
 
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Cement said:
I’ve been to a Greek Catholic Church. Their services are almost identical to traditional Eastern Orthodox. If you can describe the difference in their Divine Liturgy I would greatly appreciate it.
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Actually, the directives from Rome at the moment call for the EC churches to work with their EO counterparts, when the EO are willing, to produce joint liturgical texts to the extent possible.

I’m not aware that this has happened yet. For that matter, different EC translate differently into english from the same original text.

Ideally, the only different between the liturgies of corresponding EC and EO would be which bishops are commemorated (EC with bishop, metropolitan, patriarch [if any], and pope; EO only the bishop, who commemorates his metropolitan, etc.) (OK, and even the joint chain is probably a latinization that shouldn’t be there for EC)

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I was born a snake handler and I’ll die a snake handler.
 
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