Characteristics of the Beast

The segment on paganism |0+| will inform you about the Babylonian and Medo-Persian influences upon the Roman ideas of pagan worship. The Greeks also had their impact upon the Roman pagan festivals. Many of the Roman gods had their origins and names in ancient Greece. So, we find that Rome, which largely influenced the development of the Roman Catholic Church, was a product of the ideas and religions of the preceding nations. Thus, the Roman Catholic Church incorporated the practices of the religions of previous empires into its forms of worship--all of these had pagan (satanic) origins.