That does it, I'm taking my eggs and going home.
Posted on 04/23/2011 10:25:07 AM PDT by patlin
Dear Linda...
We don’t have to ask ourselves that question about how we will be celebrating tomorrow? We KNOW how we will be celebrating...with BIG, HUGE, BEAUTIFUL BASKETS FILLED...yes.... I said FILLED with candy and jelly beans and choc eggs and choc bunnies and a HUGE CREAM EASTER EGG IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING and beautiful colored grass and a BIG HUGE HAM DINNER with all the trimmings and egg hunts and hard boiled eggs that are colored with dye.
We will eat, drink and be merry and rejoice in the fact He is Risen!!!
What will YOU be doing? Oh wait...I dont’ care....I forgot.
Please, please stop the contortion - read the passage in context and let it speak for itself - before you embarrass yourself further by this muddled interpretation on your part.
Hardly, you obviously didn’t read the last few paragraphs of the article:
INdeed -and I know of no Christians being baptized in the name of 'easter', or astare, or any other pagan goddess. I don't know what church you affiliate with - but thousands ARE baptized into Christ. The Communion isn't suddenly replaced with peeps and orange juice because of the name of the day.
In the words of the sage - lighten up Francis.
As a former Protestant explained to me: “They have to rationalize their existence.” How can they explain that they have a doctrine and outlook that didn’t exist anywhere in the first 1500 years of Christianity? They do it by suggesting that those 1500 years were all bunk.
Notice how they refuse to acknowledge that these pagan names & traditions were banned in the original settlements of America? That they were codified in municipal law as UNLAWFUL?
Yes, Europe truly DID corrupt the new world of Christ that is now the United States of America.
We got POST REPLY and that is MUCH better!
There is NO logical relationship between what I wrote and your
So the Catholics don’t & never have referred to the season of Passover as the “Easter Season” There is NO USE of the term “EASTER” in ANY Catholic Church celebration?
Thye original statement condemned a non-exitent fact:
...the Roman Catholic Papacy use[d] the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity’s most important events?
"define"? I don't even know what that means in this context. Names are used to denominate, not to define. And any defining or denominating the Papacy does is in Latin. The name of the Holiday in our Church is Pascha. Even to get your silly argument a hearing you have to fabricate a non-existent Papal act.
There is NO logical relationship between what I wrote and your
So the Catholics don’t & never have referred to the season of Passover as the “Easter Season” There is NO USE of the term “EASTER” in ANY Catholic Church celebration?
Thye original statement condemned a non-exitent fact:
...the Roman Catholic Papacy use[d] the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity’s most important events?
"define"? I don't even know what that means in this context. Names are used to denominate, not to define. And any defining or denominating the Papacy does is in Latin. The name of the Holiday in our Church is Pascha. Even to get your silly argument a hearing you have to fabricate a non-existent Papal act.
Where do they get this bilge, it is little but a distraction. If God didn't like Saturday he would have mentioned it in passing...
Well; you got ONE thing right!
(maybe)
Awesome.
>> “The Communion isn’t suddenly replaced with peeps and orange juice because of the name of the day.
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No, the communion isn’t replaced, the day of the communion is what the pagans succeeded in replacing. The date of every communion referenced in the NT is the Passover, which mostly is a mid-week sabbath, although rarely it will fall on what was for the original Christians, the first day of the work week: Sunday.
You wrote:
“Notice how they refuse to acknowledge that these pagan names & traditions were banned in the original settlements of America?”
SATURN’S DAY was banned? Tuesday was banned? Thursday was banned? How about May? Was that banned? Were wedding rings banned?
Your hypocrisy is showing.
By the way, do you celebrate birthdays?
Pagan.
That does it, I'm taking my eggs and going home.
Are you telling me that the word Easter was not used in Virginia?
If NOT, then your words should have been:
pagan names & traditions were banned in[one of]or {some of] the original settlements of America?
Notice how are all coming out in profuse protectionism to their Catholic religion, yet none have said one word that Church of England was also called out onto the carpet for keeping paganism going?The last I heard the Anglicans don't have a papacy going around naming holidays. That was the ridiculous and fantastic allegation to which I was responding.
I really love the ones who go after Methodist (and others)because we use the Nicene Creed and such. “You are no better than Catholics”. I always answer, “you are right”.
I freak them out real bad when I tell them about the GOA accepting my Methodist Baptism for membership many years ago...
Huh?
LOL...
Well if they stopped counting at 29 like my wife...
When you can cite Gospel teachings that give authority for the Christian Church to use paganism to promote the Gospel, then you have a case. Until then, you are like I was until I really started studying the Gospel OUTSIDE of what religious theocrats teach. FYI, the Lord told the disciples to go out, teach & baptize new disciples, not build religious theocracies where each one has its own interpretation as to what the Gospel says and its own set of religious laws for their members to follow. There is only one set of laws and those are of Christ, our Lord, our God. What does it say when the Lord proclaimed that only 1/3 of His Jewish people would even enter the Kingdom? It says that we need to really start questioning these religions & their leaders and just how much of the Gospel they teach is really the true doctrine of the Lord God, Jesus Christ.
The communion wasn’t served AFTER Christ had risen either. It was originally served on Wednesday, before he rose Saturday night.
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