Religious hypocrisy...again *groan

[KichigaiNeko]

RETAILERS say Halloween is big business but churches insist it won't become more valued than Easter or Christmas.

Oooh I thought... This should be good. Aussies celebrating Halloween (which has only recently taken off in a big way here) 'bout bloody time too. Until I read ...

"The value of a festival is not how much chocolate or pumpkins you eat or how much money you spend", senior Anglican bishop Robert Forsyth said.
There's a significant difference between the two festivals, Bishop Forsyth said. "Halloween is a made-up festival about death, Easter is a real-world festival about life."

Full story ....

Sorry WTF?!


Now as we all know, The religious organisations in an effort to get "converts", rather than slaughtering the entire population opposing them, appropriated the "pagan festivals" as their own and rebranded them. Every blessed one of them.

I am left speechless as to the temerity of the religious hierarchy to call their silly rituals "real-life" and refer to pagan agricultural festivals as "made-up".

I have a suspicion about how the "Eight-fold" Year gave birth to our current holidays and how the religious organisations globally have utilised these basic yearly observances to bolster their own businesses. Any thoughts?

[Spectrum]

I don't find that nearly as disturbing as the furry in your sig.