These claims are popularly made to support religious ignorance and bigotry.
Like all such claims they are connected to some truths and thus get the attention of certain segments of the population and recruits them to continue the fights that divide good people up based on ignorance and bigotry in religious teachings.
Yes, some of the tactics used to popularize Christianity was to fuse it with paganistic teachings. One of which was worship of the sun, ra, rey, sol, son with connections to ancient paganistic connections. This all occured after the deterioation of the true monotheism ( strict surrender to the Will of the One True God called Al-Islam in Arabic) practiced and taught by Jesus (PBUH) and was followed by the spread of this teaching all over the world.
The sun obviously has a big job in this solar system and has been wrongfully worshipped as a deity. Humans created methods of controling the months and years by connecting them to the relationship of the earth and sun (solar year).
Yes, after the true monotheism ( strict surrender to the Will of the One True God called Al-Islam in Arabic) practiced and taught by Abraham (PBUH)and his son Isma'el (PBUH) in what is now call the Middle east, began to be corrupted and deteriorated, widespread idol worship was established like that of ignorant times and one of the idols worshipped was the moon. The determination of the months and years is by the phases of the moon (lunar year) and ignorant people took this out of context and proportions.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)was missioned to call the population back to the pure worship of the One True Creator and had great success.
41:37 And of His portents are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Adore not the sun nor the moon; but adore Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him whom ye worship.
وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ لَا تَسْجُدُوا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُنَّ إِن كُنتُمْ إِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُونَ
from Al-Quran
Like all such claims they are connected to some truths and thus get the attention of certain segments of the population and recruits them to continue the fights that divide good people up based on ignorance and bigotry in religious teachings.
Yes, some of the tactics used to popularize Christianity was to fuse it with paganistic teachings. One of which was worship of the sun, ra, rey, sol, son with connections to ancient paganistic connections. This all occured after the deterioation of the true monotheism ( strict surrender to the Will of the One True God called Al-Islam in Arabic) practiced and taught by Jesus (PBUH) and was followed by the spread of this teaching all over the world.
The sun obviously has a big job in this solar system and has been wrongfully worshipped as a deity. Humans created methods of controling the months and years by connecting them to the relationship of the earth and sun (solar year).
Yes, after the true monotheism ( strict surrender to the Will of the One True God called Al-Islam in Arabic) practiced and taught by Abraham (PBUH)and his son Isma'el (PBUH) in what is now call the Middle east, began to be corrupted and deteriorated, widespread idol worship was established like that of ignorant times and one of the idols worshipped was the moon. The determination of the months and years is by the phases of the moon (lunar year) and ignorant people took this out of context and proportions.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)was missioned to call the population back to the pure worship of the One True Creator and had great success.
41:37 And of His portents are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Adore not the sun nor the moon; but adore Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him whom ye worship.
وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ لَا تَسْجُدُوا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُنَّ إِن كُنتُمْ إِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُونَ
from Al-Quran