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You a protestant?

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You a protestant?
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RE: You a protestant?
April 1, 2013 at 6:50 pm
My impression of SHIN (from other forums) is that he doesn't follow any established church, but studies the Bible on his own. A perfectly valid approach IMO, but whatever he comes up with sounds insane because he's getting it from the Bible.
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RE: You a protestant?
April 1, 2013 at 6:50 pm
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RE: You a protestant?
April 2, 2013 at 7:17 am (This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 7:23 am by Justtristo.)
(April 1, 2013 at 8:14 am)festive1 Wrote: I celebrate Easter, without zombie Jesus, but we do the egg thing, the Bunny man comes and the kids get too much candy, we had a "traditional" Easter dinner... People have been celebrating Spring since the dawn of time. I just don't see how that's Catholic.

The poster you replied you seems under the impression there was a primitive Christianity before it got influenced by Paganism. However that sort of Christianity never existed, because even the zombie Jesus aspect of the holiday is pagan (namely borrowed from the various Dying and Rising God myths).
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RE: You a protestant?
April 2, 2013 at 7:22 am
When I celebrate Easter, I think I'm being pagan, not Catholic. I like equinoxes and solstices, no particular reason, just do Big Grin
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RE: You a protestant?
April 2, 2013 at 7:33 am (This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 7:35 am by Justtristo.)
(April 2, 2013 at 7:22 am)festive1 Wrote: When I celebrate Easter, I think I'm being pagan, not Catholic. I like equinoxes and solstices, no particular reason, just do Big Grin

To our ancestors who either hunted or farmed equinoxes and solstices were extremely important times of the year, so it is natural that whole myths would develop around these times of the year. So these ancient people came to believe that certain gods or goddesses would die around the winter solstice and be reborn during the spring equinox.

However Australia where I live has more a cycle of drought and flood (for example; in Australia grass grows whenever it rains, rather than stops growing when it is winter), than a cycle of true seasons a lot of the Northern Hemisphere has. Thus I find the celebration of equinoxes and solstices to be quite baffling.
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RE: You a protestant?
April 2, 2013 at 7:34 am
I personally do like to follow the seasons and have a little celebration, I like the Celtic-Eight fold year...a holy day every six weeks!



that...oooh! happens to coincide with some or another religious observance...
Dodgy What a coincidence!

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