| justinian said: @Sethnintendo |
The halo is not a sun. The halo represents the glory of God manifesting out of a person.
What is important to understand regarding Catholicism, and other of the apostolic forms of the Christian religion, connected with the Roman Empire, is what to do with the art and culture of society. You can follow what is often seen with evangelican and fundamental Protestants, where they will denounce any form of the culture of the world as Pagan, and end up avoiding it. Or, the other approach is to take the culture of the world, gut it of its meaning and put in the meaning of one's own religion. The Catholic church was particularly noted for doing this, so art style and so on was borrowed, as were holidays. The Catholic Church, for convenience, took the Pagan holidays and redefined them, and kept the dates. Date of Jesus's birth being celebrated was put on December 25th, because that is what the culture did. You just change the meaning.
You can see similar about Valentine's Day, where the date was kept, but the meaning was changed.
