(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.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
