How Christians Put Out Humanity’s Sacred Fires

The official narrative: light a candle for Jesus. The real story: put out everyone else’s fire.

For thousands of years before Christianity arrived, humans lit sacred fires. From Persia to Greece, from Rome to the British Isles, people worshipped light — not because it was a symbol, but because it was life. Fire meant warmth, food, protection, and connection to the divine. Then the Christians showed up and put them all out.