i've noticed that a lot of traditions that one considers Judeo/Christian or Catholic did not originate with the religion and yet it is continued to be used well into modern times.
Most often the religion usurps other cultures to establish a foot hold in a particular region of the world and i have often wondered how can a religious followers, Pope, Cardinal find this acceptable and meshing with their religion?

I have heard people claim that you have to be married by the church, priest, witnesses in order for you to be married by their religion as if it were gospel yet not once is that  ever explicitly stated and has actually been the opposite statement when it comes to marriage or being considered to be married in the bible.

the tradition of the modern wedding is actually rooted in pagan religion and has nothing to do with the judeo christian religion and yet men and women continue to accept it as a christian tradition and ignore all its pagan symbolism. i can accept this with your less versed followers but i dont believe the Pope, Cardinals or anyone who preaches the bible should be enforcing it and claiming it as a judeo religion belief structure or that God commands it.

I have seen this time and again the more i study cultures and religions even to the point that their saints, angels, demons and even God have taken pagan religion attributes that was never stated as a judeo christian belief structure. The churches and religious institution go from one region to the next and blend merge their beliefs structure in order to assimilate them as quickly as possible. It has taken the shape of turning regional gods into demons, saints, and angels without it ever being justified by the  old or new testament but simply modern people saying those are demons.. Now you can go online and buy books that name the judeo religion demons and the majority of the names have never ever been mention in any old or modern testament but you will find them in there and when you study the names they are actually gods of ancient religions that the church usurped.......

Now on the opposite end of this we have some gods turn into Saints or Angels without doctrine support to justify such an action. I would think the Judeo Christian religion would be against turning foreign gods into angels or saints with you know God not liking  competition...

An example of this is the earth goddess/spirit/ Mother of the Americas being turned into a saint and even attempted to make her interchangeable with The Virgin Mary.
I am talking about Our Lady of Guadalupe whose actual name was   Tonantzin which Catholicism has tried to assimilate and take what little remains of the native culture from the Americas.

The story is that a Native Pueblo boy had a vision of Tonantzin which means Our Mother who wanted her church rebuild which the head priest refused and asked for proof of her appearance. The boy later had another one and she gave him a painting and roses within a satchel... anyways the natives did not refer to her as The Virgin Mary although that is what the Catholic church wants people to believe and even if they did they wouldnt canonize her as a saint as a separate person if she was already the Virgin Mary.

I can go on another  the lighting of candles although the church had this belief which was something that was taken from other cultures the Natives of the Americas also light  fires in remembrance of the dead, family and warriors and even some say to remember their own savior god who sacrificed himself and was consumed by fire so as to restart the fire of the sun and let the sun rise once more....

I want to know when you take everything that is not pertinent to the Judeo/Christian Religion what else do you have left that is itself?
is the simple message of the Old and New testament not enough, do you find it okay for the Judeo Christian Religion to take qualities of other religions?
what does Judeo christian Belief leads you to believe of doing such a thing?
how can one decide which god will be turned into a saint, angel or demon?
what cultural traditions do you know that the judeo christian have taken from other religions?
what gods do you know were changed  or merged to fit the judeo christian religion?