Is it true that English weekday names are pagan?

[sheya joie]

I still don't see how using the common names of the days of the week amounts to 'pagan incantations'??

[40bill]

Living in California I deal with many atheists. Some are kind and respectful, some not so much. One of the less kind ones (a liberal arts major, a self professed "intellectual elite") got in a deep dig the other day. She told me that words Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday invoke Norse deities. Saturday is a little different, Saturday invokes a Greek deity. Is this true? How can I reconcile this? How do I live my life for Christ when I speak, write and think pagan incantations?

Don't overworry this. Yes....days of the week and months of the year were named for the old deities.

Except October...I believe that was named for Octavious Caesar. Saturday...I don't thing that's Greek....that would be Kronus...I believe it was Roman for Saturn's day...so if you want a laugh at them,

tell them to get their mythos correct. LOL!!!

At any rate...you live your life for Christ by living your life and recognizing that Christ died for all's sins.

The days of the rules of Leviticus....which is a litany of sins and how many cattle you have to kill to clean

up after them....are done. One sacrifice for all.

Or as Paul tried to say...if you've done it with no harm or sin in mind or heart, there is no sin. You live in a world with these names....and that's irrelevant to God.

Focusing on Jesus is not a mystical mumbo-jumbo. It's simple belief and faith.

As the commercials would say, everything else is uncivilized. Be at peace and live and love in Jesus.

[amor]

If th' art troubled by this friend adopt traditional Quaker usage as shown here. It's not that difficult to say the eighth day of the eleventh month. We also for several centuries eshewed the use of "You" when talking to individuals as this was originally a plural pronoun and its use to adress an individual was seen as too deferential as we are all created equal.

[Tony Smith]

Actually those aren't "old english" words...they came from Saxony in Germany. Those are ancient nordic (northern) gods, not exclusively english ones.

I always liked the comic strip hero of Thor. He was cool.

You can do as the hebrews and call the days by their number....1, 2, 3, etc...but no one will be able to understand you. Communication demands that people understand the terms one uses so, while it is possible, you will be spending minutes explaining what could be done in a nanosecond using terms that are commonly accepted.

It doesn't mean you worship Thor to say the word "Thors Day"

But again....if you feel convicted about it...don't say it.

It looks like the folks who put together that presentation (it looks like the youtube link has been removed from my post above) seem to think the solution to the day names issue lies in Genesis. They call themselves the "Christian Calendar Project"

How ironic. Someone who attempted to belittle my faith ends up driving me to a greater appreciation of Genesis.