[Liberator]

..., but happy Easter!

This is the day traditionally set aside by Christians to celebrate the ressurection of our savior Jesus Christ after having lain in a tomb for 3 days.

This is meant to be a celebratory thread, if you want to rag on Easter or Christianity in general start a new thread please.

[mikhael]

Don't forget that its also a celebration of fertility rights for the ancient Sumerian goddess of fertility (thus the origin of the eggs, etc)! Happy Easter.

[Corsair]

I'm starting a foundation to save all the cute little chocolate bunnies from evil bunny-eating kids. Please, if you see a bunny, don't let it be brutally slaughtered.

Save the bunnies!

[Drew]

**** mik you could take the joy out of anything. Its well know Ishtar was the goddes of firtility but hell, thats not who christains honor when they went to church today

[Ace]

Originally posted by Drew
**** mik you could take the joy out of anything. Its well know Ishtar was the goddes of firtility but hell, thats not who christains honor when they went to church today

They should! Ungrateful bastards, look how far America has morally degraded since the faith of Ishtar is no longer being taught in schools due to those damn left-wing liberal Christians!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Drew
**** mik you could take the joy out of anything. Its well know Ishtar was the goddes of firtility but hell, thats not who christains honor when they went to church today

I'm only helping the celebretory mood, Drew. I know I celebrate fertility every chance I get. If you can't find joy in that, you're not doing it right.

Now, if you could look for the HUMOR and the FUN in things, rather than kneejerking whenever someone mentions anything that you could possibly construe as non-happy, you might enjoy life more.

In short: I'm not taking the fun out of anything. I was giving more reasons for fun in the interests of inclusivity--we're not all christians here, you know.

Note, I didn't DISAGREE or ARGUE with Lib, did I?

[diamondgeezer]

Happy chocolate egg day. I've managed to sustain my record of attending church once* in twenty two years



* and that was for a cousin's christening

[Kamikaze]

So, is the bunny related to the whole fertility deal?

[Kazan]

I have managed to continue my not having been forced to go to church (save on xmas) for the last 6 years


grr I hate going to my grandparents for Xmas - because i have to go to church.. ON MY ****ING BIRTHDAY!

[Setekh]

Yet another pagan-festival-turned-church-celebration, thanks to the Church of Rome. Hooray.

[Drew]

Originally posted by mikhael
Don't forget that its also a celebration of fertility rights for the ancient Sumerian goddess of fertility (thus the origin of the eggs, etc)! Happy Easter.

when i stop seeing sarcasm and find some funny in that ill let you know

[Kazan]

Drew: we'll never heard from you then

[Liberator]

Originally posted by mikhael
Note, I didn't DISAGREE or ARGUE with Lib, did I?

No, but you were mildly blasphemous, but since I'm not God I'll let it slide.

As for the rest of you, you should attend more often.  You'd be surprised at the kind of people you meet at church, their not all like me, more likely none are like me.  I'm mildly insane from living alone and not taking part in society for nearly 4 years.

[mikhael]

I was not blasphemous in the least:

blasphemy:

blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)

I showed no disrespect for god OR for something sacred. I MAY have bordered on heresy, but that's a different animal.


I also wasn't being sarcastic:

sarcasm

witty language used to convey insults or scorn

I hold no scorn for the convention of Easter (either in its pagan origins or its more recent judeochristian celebration). Nor did I utter even the first insult. I'm afraid you have me confused for Kaz.

I've said it many times before and I will say it again: read what I say, not what you WISH or WANT me to say.

[Liberator]

Apologies then.

[mikhael]

Lib, it might surprise you to learn that I attend the Stations of the Cross on occasion, and still carry the nail I recieved the last time I went. I may not be a christian, but I recognize good morality.

[Bobboau]

"the nail I recieved the last time I went."
I hear that hurts

hmm so that's were the eggs and rabits came from, I always wondered about that, like maybe Jesus didn't like eggs, he was like "I don't care what you do with them, boil 'em paint em pretty color hide them, just get them out of my sight!", but then I though well there were 12 apostles, and eggs come in packs of 12, and in each dozen there's always one egg that's cracked. THE JUDAS EGG!!!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Bobboau
"the nail I recieved the last time I went."
I hear that hurts

hmm so that's were the eggs and rabits came from, I always wondered about that, like maybe Jesus didn't like eggs, he was like "I don't care what you do with them, boil 'em paint em pretty color hide them, just get them out of my sight!", but then I though well there were 12 apostles, and eggs come in packs of 12, and in each dozen there's always one egg that's cracked. THE JUDAS EGG!!!

See, here we have a clear combination of blasphemy AND sarcasm (and good ones too).

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Bobboau
hmm so that's were the eggs and rabits came from, I always wondered about that, like maybe Jesus didn't like eggs, he was like "I don't care what you do with them, boil 'em paint em pretty color hide them, just get them out of my sight!", but then I though well there were 12 apostles, and eggs come in packs of 12, and in each dozen there's always one egg that's cracked. THE JUDAS EGG!!!

Ever considered becoming a systematic theologian?