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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 10:29 am
(March 24, 2018 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: So, what will preachers do this year, give an Easter Sunday sermon or an April Fool's joke?
This has never happened in all my life. The first Easter (as well as the first Christmas) was celebrated in Rome, is based on astrology and has never had squat doodle to do with Jesus except as the SUN of god. But christians still act like they're trying to take back what has never been theirs.
Actually Easter is based off of the Passover celebration as Christ was captured and crucified during the Passover feast..
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 10:39 am
(March 24, 2018 at 11:06 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (March 24, 2018 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: So, what will preachers do this year, give an Easter Sunday sermon or an April Fool's joke?
This has never happened in all my life. The first Easter (as well as the first Christmas) was celebrated in Rome, is based on astrology and has never had squat doodle to do with Jesus except as the SUN of god. But christians still act like they're trying to take back what has never been theirs.
I don't think any christian actually believes the Dec. 25 is Jesus's actual birthday, anyone who knows anything about church history knows that it was the newly converted Roman Christians that incorporated their pagan practices into Christianity after the Jews (which included the Christian Jews) were expelled from Rome.
So what do you want Christians to do, tell the kids they'll no longer celebrate Christmas?
No, actually the standard in christian apologetics is to tell the lie that the early christians held christmas on December 25th to avoid persecution. This is demonstrably untrue
Tell you kids whatever you want. You do that anyway.
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 10:39 am
(March 26, 2018 at 10:29 am)Drich Wrote: (March 24, 2018 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: So, what will preachers do this year, give an Easter Sunday sermon or an April Fool's joke?
This has never happened in all my life. The first Easter (as well as the first Christmas) was celebrated in Rome, is based on astrology and has never had squat doodle to do with Jesus except as the SUN of god. But christians still act like they're trying to take back what has never been theirs.
Actually Easter is based off of the Passover celebration as Christ was captured and crucified during the Passover feast..
Except that he wasn't.
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 10:48 am
(March 26, 2018 at 10:29 am)Drich Wrote: (March 24, 2018 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: So, what will preachers do this year, give an Easter Sunday sermon or an April Fool's joke?
This has never happened in all my life. The first Easter (as well as the first Christmas) was celebrated in Rome, is based on astrology and has never had squat doodle to do with Jesus except as the SUN of god. But christians still act like they're trying to take back what has never been theirs.
Actually Easter is based off of the Passover celebration as Christ was captured and crucified during the Passover feast..
...sure it is. 
It just couldn't possibly be an attempt to reappropriate and christ-wash the various pagan festivals the early catholic church was trying to poach market space from - and so aptly named after a goddess of those parties. Heavens no. For that matter, it's not as if passover itself could have been derived from an agrarian canaanite ritual..or any such distasteful thing.
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 11:21 am
(March 26, 2018 at 8:56 am)Khemikal Wrote: (March 24, 2018 at 11:52 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Since when is easter about religion? Just give me a cadbury egg and a nice brunch and I'll call it good. But screw Jesus.
Momo and I have an easter tradition. Our holiday is the week after easter, when the bins of caramel filled eggs go on sale 10 for a dollar. We buy the kroger right the fuck out. We're not even nice about it. We muscle in and snatch em up.
-just like republican jesus would have wanted. 
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 11:53 am
Well, the Jewish Jesus was crucified during Passover, but did Paul ever cough up a date for when his retconned Christian Jesus was crucified ??
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 26, 2018 at 12:05 pm
(March 26, 2018 at 11:21 am)Whateverist Wrote: Enjoy it while you can. Haven't had one yet and may skip them altogether as part of my anti blob diet.
Oh...I don't get to eat any of them..are you kidding me? She'd slit my throat in my sleep if I stole her bags of chocolate bunny-scout eggs.
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 27, 2018 at 1:27 pm
(March 26, 2018 at 10:39 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: (March 26, 2018 at 10:29 am)Drich Wrote: Actually Easter is based off of the Passover celebration as Christ was captured and crucified during the Passover feast..
Except that he wasn't.
Ya- huh... See how this works? you say nut-huh and provide not proof or explanation, and I in turn am free to do the same.
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 27, 2018 at 1:36 pm
(March 26, 2018 at 10:48 am)Khemikal Wrote: It just couldn't possibly be an attempt to reappropriate and christ-wash the various pagan festivals the early catholic church was trying to poach market space from - and so aptly named after a goddess of those parties. {emphasis Mine}
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RE: Hey Min, Get Ready To Have A Field Day
March 27, 2018 at 1:38 pm
(March 26, 2018 at 10:48 am)Khemikal Wrote: (March 26, 2018 at 10:29 am)Drich Wrote: Actually Easter is based off of the Passover celebration as Christ was captured and crucified during the Passover feast..
...sure it is.
It just couldn't possibly be an attempt to reappropriate and christ-wash the various pagan festivals the early catholic church was trying to poach market space from - and so aptly named after a goddess of those parties. Actually Christ/Passover came first, and those 'aptly named parties.' were german and english in origin, who worship of the sun god came much later. in all other cultures/non german speaking and or non english speaking the word for easter is dervied from Greek and Latin Pascha or Pasch, for Passover.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/easter-eggs-history-origin-symbolism-tradition_n_1392054.html
Quote:Heavens no. For that matter, it's not as if passover itself could have been derived from an agrarian canaanite ritual..or any such distasteful thing.
Despite what you may think the orgins are for passover we have 5th and 6th century manuscripts that show Jesus was catured and crusified on passover, which again is the reason why Christian's celebrate 'easter' now.
That said you are right in the the english church did adopt the word easter and assimilated SOME of the pagan-ness from them, but remember this adaptation was an adaptation of what the christians were already doing.
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