More shit stolen from the pagans.

http://rcg.org/books/ttooe.html

Quote:aster has long been known to be a pagan festival! America’s founders knew this! A children’s book about the holiday, Easter Parade: Welcome Sweet Spring Time!, by Steve Englehart, p. 4, states, “When the Puritans came to North America, they regarded the celebration of Easter—and the celebration of Christmas—with suspicion. They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before Christians celebrated Easter…for the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid much attention to Easter.” Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday: “Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870s” (p. 5). Remarkable! The original 13 colonies of America began as a “Christian” nation, with the cry of “No king but King Jesus!” The nation did not observe Easter within an entire century of its founding. What happened to change this?
Where Did Easter Come From?

Does the following sound familiar?—Spring is in the air! Flowers and bunnies decorate the home. Father helps the children paint beautiful designs on eggs dyed in various colors. These eggs, which will later be hidden and searched for, are placed into lovely, seasonal baskets. The wonderful aroma of the hot cross buns mother is baking in the oven waft through the house. Forty days of abstaining from special foods will finally end the next day. The whole family picks out their Sunday best to wear to the next morning’s sunrise worship service to celebrate the savior’s resurrection and the renewal of life. Everyone looks forward to a succulent ham with all the trimmings. It will be a thrilling day. After all, it is one of the most important religious holidays of the year.

Easter, right? No! This is a description of an ancient Babylonian family—2,000 years before Christ—honoring the resurrection of their god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother/wife, Ishtar (after whom the festival was named). As Ishtar was actually pronounced “Easter” in most Semitic dialects

(March 21, 2012 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote: More shit stolen from the pagans.

http://rcg.org/books/ttooe.html

Quote:aster has long been known to be a pagan festival! America’s founders knew this! A children’s book about the holiday, Easter Parade: Welcome Sweet Spring Time!, by Steve Englehart, p. 4, states, “When the Puritans came to North America, they regarded the celebration of Easter—and the celebration of Christmas—with suspicion. They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before Christians celebrated Easter…for the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid much attention to Easter.” Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday: “Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870s” (p. 5). Remarkable! The original 13 colonies of America began as a “Christian” nation, with the cry of “No king but King Jesus!” The nation did not observe Easter within an entire century of its founding. What happened to change this?
Where Did Easter Come From?

Does the following sound familiar?—Spring is in the air! Flowers and bunnies decorate the home. Father helps the children paint beautiful designs on eggs dyed in various colors. These eggs, which will later be hidden and searched for, are placed into lovely, seasonal baskets. The wonderful aroma of the hot cross buns mother is baking in the oven waft through the house. Forty days of abstaining from special foods will finally end the next day. The whole family picks out their Sunday best to wear to the next morning’s sunrise worship service to celebrate the savior’s resurrection and the renewal of life. Everyone looks forward to a succulent ham with all the trimmings. It will be a thrilling day. After all, it is one of the most important religious holidays of the year.

Easter, right? No! This is a description of an ancient Babylonian family—2,000 years before Christ—honoring the resurrection of their god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother/wife, Ishtar (after whom the festival was named). As Ishtar was actually pronounced “Easter” in most Semitic dialects

The one thing that really stood out to me in that quotation?

BUNNIES!! ^___^

I'm such a pansy. XD

But seriously, I love how every "christian holiday" is just a total rip-off from the pagans. I don't think the pagans are any more intelligent than the christians are; they all believe in superstitious crap. But at least the pagans had some awesome levels of creativity and it wasn't all completely ripped off of something else.

I'll probably be forced to go to church with the wife & kids along with her family, but to me Easter is all about the end of winter and beginning of spring, and an excuse to eat rabbits made of chocolate and for the kids to look for colored eggs in the yard.

(March 21, 2012 at 12:40 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I'll probably be forced to go to church with the wife & kids along with her family, but to me Easter is all about the end of winter and beginning of spring, and an excuse to eat rabbits made of chocolate and for the kids to look for colored eggs in the yard.

It's also about spending lots of money to look overdressed, going to church though you only go twice a year, and making sure everyone there knows you are better than them. When I was a fundy I avoided Easter service for this reason. I don't envy you Doubting Thomas. Chocolate, eggs, and pink bunnies on the other hand are fun.

To celebrate Easter I am going to crucify someone.

It's really strange to me that many people celebrate these kinds of days in terms of religious festivals. By that I mean the whole going to church and giving thanks thing. In my experience, and I know this is far from unique or even unusual, all these 'holy' days are just days when we exchange themed gifts, wish each other well and perhaps eat more than usual. Beyond that, any religious element is an extremely optional extra.

Easter=Ishtar?


Sounds reasonable enough, but how exactly do we know how a dead language was pronounced? We don't even know for sure how say Shakespearean English was pronounced.

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Quote:It's really strange to me that many people celebrate these kinds of days in terms of religious festivals.

We don't here in Australia (except for a few religious nuts) We all just take some time off work,eat a lot,get shitfaced,fight and watch sports.



We have one and only one national religious holiday; ANZAC Day

Quote:Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for their countries.[1][2] Anzac Day is also observed in the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tonga. It is no longer observed as a national holiday in Samoa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_day

When the kids were young we did away with all the religious holidays and invented our own.

Easter = Worship of the god of CHOCOLATE!! With a very hearty chocolate Festival that lasted about a month

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(March 21, 2012 at 11:40 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: What's Easter?

Dead jew on a stick day

(March 22, 2012 at 7:26 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

(March 21, 2012 at 11:40 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: What's Easter?

Dead jew on a stick day

Risen Christ our savior, you are describing Good Friday, with great disrespect. Again another who thinks they know something.

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(March 21, 2012 at 4:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's really strange to me that many people celebrate these kinds of days in terms of religious festivals. By that I mean the whole going to church and giving thanks thing. In my experience, and I know this is far from unique or even unusual, all these 'holy' days are just days when we exchange themed gifts, wish each other well and perhaps eat more than usual. Beyond that, any religious element is an extremely optional extra.

You should go to church for awhile and see who the regular goers are, then go at Christmas and Easter and see how they respond to the occasions.