Given that most (if not all) English Speaking countries are 'Christian' in origin...?

Oh no they are not!! What a totally false claim!!

Where do you think christianity got it's ideas of a soul and afterlife from for goodness sake?

They stole it from the pagan tribes and peoples which existed hundreds and thousands of years before christianity!!

From the stone age through vikings, Egyptians, Maoris, Aborigines, American Indians and especially the chinese, they all had elaborate funerals and grave goods to speed the soul into the next life with comfort!!

America was not founded by christians and is the only Western country with any significant number of christians!! Even then their claims for numbers are hugely exaggerated!!

The churches own figures show only 28% ever attend church in a year. Indeed if 28% ever tried to attend church on the same day, even working shifts, there is simply not enough churches!!

But count the bars - in many places there is more space In the bars than the churches!!

The figures in Canad, Australia, New Zealand and especially the UK are much, much lower!!

Indeed, xtianity was not a very acceptable religion when it arrived in Europe after fleeing Jewish Palestine. The only way to convince the pagan Europeans to convert to xtianity was to merge many of their pagan ways to dilute it's original forms.

The Jewish people could have taken that lesson when they brought their religious was to Europe a few centuries later, but they learned the hard way the consequences of uncompromising religious ways.

The simple truth is.........between teaching my toddlers the proper names of their genitals, general good manners, Pat's, basketball games, soccer tryouts, prom dresses ( and shoes and bags, and hair etc) , learning to drive, and college tuition I simply have not gotten to it........yet.

Thanks for the reminder that I need to change millenniums ancient history! Maybe the grandchildren will be more considerate of my time..........( probably not, I simply enjoy playing with them).

I guess the trillions of other people throughout time were "doing" something time consuming as well.

How about the naming of the months after Greek and Roman gods of the polytheist era?

uuuummmmm because England itself was not originally Christian and perhaps because the calender was created by Romans and perhaps because the names of days of the week and for that matter names of months were not very important to them in midst of building an empire

I think Pat Robertson actually decided on the days of the week. He never ceases to surprise me.

Considering that we celebrate Christmas on the 25 of December only because it coincides with the winter solstice and other pagan holidays, I don't think it really matters all that much.

It's about damn time Christianity died out, don't you think?

Christianity spread by merging with local customs, not destroying them. Days of the week are an artifact of that compromise.

i've never thought of all these ideas...

I was treading on the line of agnostic, but now i may be leaning towards athiesm.

thank you for opening my eyes, i'm going to research this now!

that was used in conversion methods...easier for the pagans to recognize this, no real need to fix it honestly