Is the halo pagan?

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Justice
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Is the halo pagan?

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I recently came across a pagan painting of Neptune he looked like he was wearing a halo! Here's the picture http://www.lope.ca/halo/neptune.jpg
So did we really just steal from the Romans, or is there a passage in the Bible that talks about halos?

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