I was skimming Catholicism and Fundamentalism the other day and on one of the pages it was talking about how Jimmy Swaggart likened the practice of using a Rosary, in an accusatory manner, to certain practices among Hindus and Muslims and hence tried to use this tactic to invalidate the Rosary and if someone were to say something like that to me (this is hypothetical), I would not know how to refute their comment...
The only thing I can think of in response (I feel a wee bit lame on this but oh well...) is that way back in the day before Jesus dude showed up )) is that the cross which is the emblem of Christianity used to be used in ancient pagan cultures for totally different reasons...even though it is NOT used that way for Christianity, so who are they to accuse the Rosary of being "pagan"...
The only thing I can think of in response (I feel a wee bit lame on this but oh well...) is that way back in the day before Jesus dude showed up )) is that the cross which is the emblem of Christianity used to be used in ancient pagan cultures for totally different reasons...even though it is NOT used that way for Christianity, so who are they to accuse the Rosary of being "pagan"...