(April 7, 2014 at 3:49 pm)Fromper Wrote:

(April 6, 2014 at 5:43 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Perhaps you should of ignored the question.

Dammit, there goes another irony-meter. I swear, those things just keep exploding since I started visiting sites with religious discussions.

As for how I'll spend Easter, I'll be hanging out with my Easter bunny!

Well, ok, he was someone else's Easter bunny 6 years ago, and then they abandoned him outside, where he would have died pretty quickly if I hadn't found him. But their loss is my gain. He's such a cute and cuddly little guy. I can't imagine why someone would give him up.

This seems like a good time to mention the Make Mine Chocolate campaign to get people to leave live rabbits out of their Easter celebrations. Stick to chocolate instead.

I need a rabbits foot..

(April 5, 2014 at 10:16 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: If you don't believe and celebrate that Jesus rose from the grave then what do you do on that day? Just curious.

It's an ancient freak'n pagan fertility holiday to celebrate the Spring Equinox, dumass.

It was celebrated for centuries before your mythical god/man allegedly existed.

Gerald L. Berry, author of "Religions of the World," wrote:

"About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection."

The name Easter probably derives from an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess named Eostre from about 150 BCE.

Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility.

So, the real question is, why do you, a Christian celebrate the Pagan holiday of Oestre?

Infidel! Stone him!

(April 7, 2014 at 7:46 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:

(April 5, 2014 at 10:16 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: If you don't believe and celebrate that Jesus rose from the grave then what do you do on that day? Just curious.

It's an ancient freak'n pagan fertility holiday to celebrate the Spring Equinox, dumass.

It was celebrated for centuries before your mythical god/man allegedly existed.

Gerald L. Berry, author of "Religions of the World," wrote:

"About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection."

The name Easter probably derives from an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess named Eostre from about 150 BCE.

Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility.

So, the real question is, why do you, a Christian celebrate the Pagan holiday of Oestre?

Infidel! Stone him!

I know that the origins of the day. The Romans took their pagan holidays and gave it a Christian twist. However, it still does not take away that Jesus did raise from the grave on the the day the Jews celebrated the feast of first fruits.

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(April 7, 2014 at 10:50 am)Crossless1 Wrote:

(April 6, 2014 at 4:49 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: How about trying to be loving and as gentle as the kitten in your picture?

Loving and gentle like my sniper kitten picture?!? Check, will do.

Woops,,,didn't notice the gun!!!

Does the kitten need money for ammo?

I celebrate all the christian holidays with my family. I see absolutely no problem celebrating my cultural traditions. I have a lack of a belief in god, I like the stories of the nativity and all that sort of thing though. I live in england though, which is a majority atheist country and most people only celebrate for the tradition. I understand in America and some other countries tho that religion is a bigger deal and more people celebrate the holidays is a more religious way.

(April 7, 2014 at 10:28 pm)cromwell Wrote: I celebrate all the christian holidays with my family. I see absolutely no problem celebrating my cultural traditions. I have a lack of a belief in god, I like the stories of the nativity and all that sort of thing though. I live in england though, which is a majority atheist country and most people only celebrate for the tradition. I understand in America and some other countries tho that religion is a bigger deal and more people celebrate the holidays is a more religious way.

Yeah thanks a bunch for exiling all your batshit crazy, xtian people to Murica. Oh well at least the real nice ones went to Oz.

(April 5, 2014 at 10:16 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: If you don't believe and celebrate that Jesus rose from the grave then what do you do on that day? Just curious.

Personally, I will eat far too much chocolate and drink far too much scotch/vodka/whatever else lies within easy reach, then get sad thinking about and missing those closest to me who will never rise from the grave. At least they had the basic decency actually to exist in order to change my life.

Any mental energy left over will no doubt be used in chuckling at the absurdity of xtians celebrating an astronomical event and pretending it's all magic.

We have a jolly good time. Ya see, when Jesus was crucified, all of the dead saints rose up from their graves and roamed the city. I've never heard mention of them crawling back into their graves. So, on Easter we all walk around asking strangers if they happen to be a dead saint.

Then, when Jesus tried ascending into heaven his body rose into the air. No one told him that you can't get there from here; ya have to slip into another dimension for that. We believe that the body of Jesus is still floating about like a lost balloon. We bring our binoculars to a field and watch the sky for any sign of him. Last year we thought we finally saw him, but it was another damn unicorn!

Oh yeah, then we eat dead pig.

Pretty miffed I'm not enjoying the likes of smoking crack in Beelzebub's name like some

Nevertheless;

On Sunday, at some point, I shall be heading to the local hospital to collect the tears of new born babies like most years - head home, bite the heads off of chocolate Rabbits whilst washing it down with said tears.


Standard, really.

(April 7, 2014 at 10:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Does the kitten need money for ammo?

No. Shooting fish in a barrel doesn't require many bullets.