idlehands

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

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@KuroTenshi

The Catholic Church being old as the Dinosaurs, even older than any other Christian sect doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

@ActRaiserTheReturned

I supppose you would believe it literally is as old as the dinosaurs.

I never said they're right, just saying where the modern Christianized pagan holidays came from.

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

Where in the fuck did Charles Manson come from?

@KuroTenshi

Out of his ass, where all his arguements orginate.

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

The Catholic church is a lot older than another Christian sects and they incorporated a lot of pagan ritual, gods and goddess replaced with saints and holidays given Christian overtones. All in an effort to convert and be accepted by non Christian folk. Destroying idols and burning holy writing is one thing but you can't take beloved holidays from people, that's just crossing the line.

For the record, I was raised Catholic, am now agnostic.

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Yeah, they don't know the exact date (and first Sunday of April isn't a constant date anyway), but as Idle said, it's more about the spirit of the thing. Their religious text says Jesus died, and came back to life three days later. It's an important part of their scripture. So they set a regular time of year to celebrate it. Same thing with Christmas.

As for thinking about it and celebrating it all the time, what does that even mean? Make every day a religious holiday for them?

@KeysOfKayes

Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox, it was decided upon by the Catholic Church. Some Christians see the Catholics as little more than pagans themselves.

Jungle Fever: A Vietnam War Survival RP

Same here, Easter stuff got in the way. I'm off tomorrow so I'll get something up.

Doing this before Devoid can (yay!)

An alt 3 years in the making, is that even an alt anymore?

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

Well Easter doesn't have anything to do with the resurrection. It's just a pagan holiday, like Christmas.

Nobody knows when His birthday was and know body can pinpoint a date of His death and ressurection.

@Jazzypenn

Well obviously the holidays appropriated by Christians when they converted pagan cultures. It might not be the exact date but in the spirit of rebirth, Easter is celebrated. Whether you believe in the resurrection of Christ or the world after winter.

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

Are you going to stock up on Cadbury cream eggs? I know you like that sugar slime.

Pissing people off on their sacred holiday

Robin Eggs half price tomorrow, let us celebrate.

Jungle Fever: A Vietnam War Survival RP

Caputo's memoir is a good one, I read that a long time ago. Also try The Things They Carried a collection of short stories about a platoon in the Vietnam War by Tim O'Brien.