Recommended Easter Reading to refute the Easter haters

[p_rehbein]

Hey........it's STILL January.......can't we wait a month or so to start with the Easter threads?

What happened to all the Valentines Day is pagan threads?

 

[tourist]

Hey........it's STILL January.......can't we wait a month or so to start with the Easter threads?

What happened to all the Valentines Day is pagan threads?

I was thinking the same thing myself. Looks like we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. I screwed up big time last Valentine's day. Probably have to get some flowers this time around. Please don't get me started on the candy.

 

[p_rehbein]

I was thinking the same thing myself. Looks like we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. I screwed up big time last Valentine's day. Probably have to get some flowers this time around. Please don't get me started on the candy.

Chocolate for her fer sure..........BUT don't forget to get something for them dern cats...........that will really get her happy, HAPPY!

 

[RachelBibleStudent]

Hey........it's STILL January.......can't we wait a month or so to start with the Easter threads?

What happened to all the Valentines Day is pagan threads?

easter is very early this year...lent is starting in just a few weeks...

regarding valentine's day...to me it is one of the two christian holidays that serve as something like a 'tomb of the unknown soldier'...so i find it very important for that reason...

 

[tourist]

Chocolate for her fer sure..........BUT don't forget to get something for them dern cats...........that will really get her happy, HAPPY!

I'm thinking catnip.

 

[p_rehbein]

I'm thinking catnip.

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[gb9]

easter is very early this year...lent is starting in just a few weeks...

regarding valentine's day...to me it is one of the two christian holidays that serve as something like a 'tomb of the unknown soldier'...so i find it very important for that reason...

hey, there is an idea!! how about some threads on lent!!! anyone up for that??? any guesses on how long it would take to turn into a law vs. grace debate???

 

[p_rehbein]

hey, there is an idea!! how about some threads on lent!!! anyone up for that??? any guesses on how long it would take to turn into a law vs. grace debate???

OH! I get it now............thought you meant lint.........was checking out my belly button

 

[sparkman]

the deception of the anti easter faction is even more extensive than you think...

easter eggs and the 'easter bunny' did not arise as 'pagan fertility symbols' at all...they originated in consequence of far more mundane things...

the egg became associated with easter celebrations because eggs were not eaten during the lenten fast...on easter it was finally permitted to eat them again and so they were eaten in a rather celebratory manner...it was sort of like a reverse shrove tuesday... the eggs eaten on easter were often dyed red to symbolize the blood of christ...over time additional colors and later elaborate designs were added to make the 'easter basket' more attractive...

the 'bunny' which was actually a hare became associated with easter via the egg because plover birds often made their nests in abandoned hare dens in the spring time...making it appear to the more whimsically minded that the hare had something to do with the appearance of the eggs... this notion did not appear until post reformation times and took hold mainly in the countries where this unusual natural wonder occurred...

Interesting.

I hate how the Alexander Hislop clones have sprang up like rabbits..seeking to discredit Christianity in any way that they can with their know-it-all attitudes.

As you know, I followed Herbert Armstrong who got a bunch of his arguments from Alexander Hislop. While claiming everyone else was corrupted by the Roman Catholic Church, he hid the fact that he had an incestuous relationship with his daughter. Talk about hypocritical.