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The Real Easter

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The Real Easter
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The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 12:21 pm
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm
I wonder if it shares some etymology with estrus.

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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 12:57 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 5:29 pm
(March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wonder if it shares some etymology with estrus.

It seems that it should, what with Easter's links to renewal and fertility, and I had a sociology teacher once who claimed it did, but it doesn't.
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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 8:18 pm
(March 31, 2024 at 5:29 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:
(March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wonder if it shares some etymology with estrus.

It seems that it should, what with Easter's links to renewal and fertility, and I had a sociology teacher once who claimed it did, but it doesn't.
Good old "Sounds a lot alike" fallacy. I thought the same thing for a split second, then laughed.
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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 8:42 pm
(March 31, 2024 at 5:29 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:
(March 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wonder if it shares some etymology with estrus.

It seems that it should, what with Easter's links to renewal and fertility, and I had a sociology teacher once who claimed it did, but it doesn't.

Anywhere I might read more?

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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 8:57 pm
These folks in NOLA seem to be doing it right.

[Image: Gay_Easter_Parade%2C_New_Orleans%2C_2018..._Flags.jpg]
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RE: The Real Easter
March 31, 2024 at 9:39 pm
(Springy G enters stage left, munching on a piece of chocolate) How are you gentlemen!! All your Easter are belong to Us.
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RE: The Real Easter
April 3, 2024 at 3:15 pm
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RE: The Real Easter
April 3, 2024 at 5:18 pm

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