Well said.
Politer than I would have thought, though...
Politer than I would have thought, though...
Dying to live, living to die.
Here Comes The War on Easter!
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Well said.
Politer than I would have thought, though...
Dying to live, living to die.
Maybe I'm losing my touch?
(April 4, 2017 at 6:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I suppose I'm a hide-bound traditionalist, as I still celebrate Easter the same way I did when I was a kid: Bury a fish and try to get out of going to church. I'm slow and dim witted. Bury a fish???
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
BTW:
as atheists, are we just plucking the low hanging fruit of Christmas and Easter ?? Why no war on Advent or Pentecost ?? I think we are missing some significant anti-God, anti-Church, fuck religion action. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
(April 4, 2017 at 7:35 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(April 4, 2017 at 6:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I suppose I'm a hide-bound traditionalist, as I still celebrate Easter the same way I did when I was a kid: Bury a fish and try to get out of going to church. Irish tradition: You bury a herring on Easter Saturday. Since meat was prohibited during Lent, most IC had herring as the main dish. After six weeks of that awful thing, they were glad to see the back of it, so a mock funeral and procession was held for a herring. I swear, I am not making this up. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(April 4, 2017 at 6:49 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Well, most of Christmas is pagan, too. Well, they did nail the gut to a piece of wood and who says it can't be a pine? Hold the phone, I seem to be commingling my festivals. Maybe if they would have nailed the kid to a pine right away we wouldn't have all of this falderal.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
Easter was originally a pagan festival that pre dated Christianity just as the Winter Solstice was one that pre dated Christmas
The significance of the egg is that it is a symbol of fertility and that was what the original Easter was celebrating. Christianity then came after and simply appropriated it for itself. The egg in that case can be said to symbolise the re birth of Jesus even though this event never actually happened and none of the four Gospels make any reference in respect of it to eggs anyway
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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