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BulgarianPride
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brass neck said:Is "Happy Easter" really something that is said? I dont ever remember saying Happy Easter as a brainwashed school kid. "Happy Christmas" "Happy Birthday" yes, but "Happy Easter!!!!!" its like saying "Happy Funeral" yes I know the religious types can bend things to make negatives into possitives "he's died to save us" etc but "Happy Easter" Mind you, it is a pagan festival originally so maybe it should be "Happy Easter" I love it when I ask religious types at work (pretending to be ignorant on the matter) why easter is at a different time every year, the answers I get back are so funny and of THE most "religious" people as well....
lets hear em.
yep
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Is religion and the resurrection relevant today? No! No! No!
Well only to people who die!
Happy immortality!
Well only to people who die!
Happy immortality!
brass neck
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Oh....."it's in the bible!" "The pope decides" "it's to do with whitsun"
"its something to do with leap years I think" ha ha ha ha!!!
No you brainwashed dipshits, its to do with the cycle of the moon and that fact combined with all the stuff about eggs, birth re-birth etc would possibly lead you to conclude the festival of easter has very little to do with the execution of Jesus and like all major Christian festivals is just a old pagan festival that has been swiped to suite the christians own end. for christians see:
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"its something to do with leap years I think" ha ha ha ha!!!
No you brainwashed dipshits, its to do with the cycle of the moon and that fact combined with all the stuff about eggs, birth re-birth etc would possibly lead you to conclude the festival of easter has very little to do with the execution of Jesus and like all major Christian festivals is just a old pagan festival that has been swiped to suite the christians own end. for christians see:
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brass neck said:Is "Happy Easter" really something that is said? I dont ever remember saying Happy Easter as a brainwashed school kid. "Happy Christmas" "Happy Birthday" yes, but "Happy Easter!!!!!" its like saying "Happy Funeral" yes I know the religious types can bend things to make negatives into possitives "he's died to save us" etc but "Happy Easter" Mind you, it is a pagan festival originally so maybe it should be "Happy Easter" I love it when I ask religious types at work (pretending to be ignorant on the matter) why easter is at a different time every year, the answers I get back are so funny and of THE most "religious" people as well....
Unlike Christmas, Easter must always occur on a Sunday, because Christian's believe that Sunday was the day of the Resurrection. This is based on the Jewish Calendar and Passover, as the last supper was made then so the Sunday that follows Passover is deemed as Easter Sunday.
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BluePurgatory said:brass neck said:Is "Happy Easter" really something that is said? I dont ever remember saying Happy Easter as a brainwashed school kid. "Happy Christmas" "Happy Birthday" yes, but "Happy Easter!!!!!" its like saying "Happy Funeral" yes I know the religious types can bend things to make negatives into possitives "he's died to save us" etc but "Happy Easter" Mind you, it is a pagan festival originally so maybe it should be "Happy Easter" I love it when I ask religious types at work (pretending to be ignorant on the matter) why easter is at a different time every year, the answers I get back are so funny and of THE most "religious" people as well....
Unlike Christmas, Easter must always occur on a Sunday, because Christian's believe that Sunday was the day of the Resurrection. This is based on the Jewish Calendar and Passover, as the last supper was made then so the Sunday that follows Passover is deemed as Easter Sunday.
So if jesus was crucified on a Monday we could have had a whole week off instead of just a long weekend?
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Helmet Cole said:BluePurgatory said:brass neck said:Is "Happy Easter" really something that is said? I dont ever remember saying Happy Easter as a brainwashed school kid. "Happy Christmas" "Happy Birthday" yes, but "Happy Easter!!!!!" its like saying "Happy Funeral" yes I know the religious types can bend things to make negatives into possitives "he's died to save us" etc but "Happy Easter" Mind you, it is a pagan festival originally so maybe it should be "Happy Easter" I love it when I ask religious types at work (pretending to be ignorant on the matter) why easter is at a different time every year, the answers I get back are so funny and of THE most "religious" people as well....
Unlike Christmas, Easter must always occur on a Sunday, because Christian's believe that Sunday was the day of the Resurrection. This is based on the Jewish Calendar and Passover, as the last supper was made then so the Sunday that follows Passover is deemed as Easter Sunday.
So if jesus was crucified on a Monday we could have had a whole week off instead of just a long weekend?
Before the 19th century mate, we use to have one weeks holiday!
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The greatest scheme and deception of the devil is convincing the world that he and God does not exist.
Happy easter monday.
Happy easter monday.
brass neck
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"Easter is a pagan festival. If Easter isn't really about Jesus, then what is it about? Today, we see a secular culture celebrating the spring equinox, whilst religious culture celebrates the resurrection. However, early Christianity made a pragmatic acceptance of ancient pagan practises, most of which we enjoy today at Easter. The general symbolic story of the death of the son (sun) on a cross (the constellation of the Southern Cross) and his rebirth, overcoming the powers of darkness, was a well worn story in the ancient world. There were plenty of parallel, rival resurrected saviours too.
The Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld. One of the oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life and rebirth. Mithras was born on what we now call Christmas day, and his followers celebrated the spring equinox. Even as late as the 4th century AD, the sol invictus, associated with Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to overcome. Dionysus was a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mum, Semele, back to life.
In an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually. This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection. There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and pagans who quarrelled over whose God was the true, and whose the imitation. What is interesting to note here is that in the ancient world, wherever you had popular resurrected god myths, Christianity found lots of converts. So, eventually Christianity came to an accommodation with the pagan Spring festival. Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering "sunrise services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration. The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases of the moon – how pagan is that?
All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.
Easter is essentially a pagan festival which is celebrated with cards, gifts and novelty Easter products, because it's fun and the ancient symbolism still works. It's always struck me that the power of nature and the longer days are often most felt in modern towns and cities, where we set off to work without putting on our car headlights and when our alarm clock goes off in the mornings, the streetlights outside are not still on because of the darkness.
What better way to celebrate, than to bite the head off the bunny goddess, go to a "sunrise service", get yourself a sticky-footed fluffy chick and stick it on your TV, whilst helping yourself to a hefty slice of pagan simnel cake? Happy Easter everyone!"
The Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld. One of the oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life and rebirth. Mithras was born on what we now call Christmas day, and his followers celebrated the spring equinox. Even as late as the 4th century AD, the sol invictus, associated with Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to overcome. Dionysus was a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mum, Semele, back to life.
In an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually. This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection. There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and pagans who quarrelled over whose God was the true, and whose the imitation. What is interesting to note here is that in the ancient world, wherever you had popular resurrected god myths, Christianity found lots of converts. So, eventually Christianity came to an accommodation with the pagan Spring festival. Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering "sunrise services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration. The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases of the moon – how pagan is that?
All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.
Easter is essentially a pagan festival which is celebrated with cards, gifts and novelty Easter products, because it's fun and the ancient symbolism still works. It's always struck me that the power of nature and the longer days are often most felt in modern towns and cities, where we set off to work without putting on our car headlights and when our alarm clock goes off in the mornings, the streetlights outside are not still on because of the darkness.
What better way to celebrate, than to bite the head off the bunny goddess, go to a "sunrise service", get yourself a sticky-footed fluffy chick and stick it on your TV, whilst helping yourself to a hefty slice of pagan simnel cake? Happy Easter everyone!"
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Twats like brassneck sat there eating chocolate eggs while typing his blasphemy make me sick. As far as I'm concerned the fuckers that don't believe in Jesus and the resurrection should have to go to work and not get a 4 day weekend.
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