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Easter!
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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.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 (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.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
To celebrate Easter I am going to crucify someone.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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March 22, 2012 at 1:03 am
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March 22, 2012 at 2:10 am
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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  "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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March 26, 2012 at 4:15 am
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(March 22, 2012 at 7:26 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(March 21, 2012 at 11:40 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: What's Easter? Risen Christ our savior, you are describing Good Friday, with great disrespect. Again another who thinks they know something. (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.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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