RE: What do atheists do on Easter (Resurrection Sunday)?
April 7, 2014 at 7:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2014 at 7:48 pm by Simon Moon.)
(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!
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
