Dem Birds Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Quick, hide the eggs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durrdbyrd Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 That shouldn't have made me laugh but it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Eggs relationship to the Easter observance stemmed from priests wanting to help convert pagans to Christianity. Eggs, to the pagans, stood for fertility. Most animals are most fertile in the Spring, which is the same time the pagans would go through their welcome to Springtime ritual, which just happened to coincide with the celebration of Christ's resurrection. The priests at the time saw the opportunity and ran with it.Similar story for the Christmas tree and its adaptation to Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dem Birds Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Eggs relationship to the Easter observance stemmed from priests wanting to help convert pagans to Christianity. Eggs, to the pagans, stood for fertility. Most animals are most fertile in the Spring, which is the same time the pagans would go through their welcome to Springtime ritual, which just happened to coincide with the celebration of Christ's resurrection. The priests at the time saw the opportunity and ran with it.Similar story for the Christmas tree and its adaptation to Christmas.....okay. Good info, I guess, but not really needed considering it was a joke lol. ...but where's the bunny come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 ....okay. Good info, I guess, but not really needed considering it was a joke lol. ...but where's the bunny come from?Another animal the pagans viewed as a representaton of fertility. Good choice by them. The way rabbits procreate its like magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dem Birds Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Another animal the pagans viewed as a representaton of fertility. Good choice by them. The way rabbits procreate its like magic.Yeah, except they don't lay eggs, but it's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles return Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Easter makes all of my favorite restaurants closed. This makes me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Yeah, except they don't lay eggs, but it's cool.The eggs represented the "emergence of new life", again another representation of fertility and the celebration of Spring. Sorry, I left that out. Everyone, even the pagans, knew that rabbits don't lay eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Dog Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Apparently all christains holidays have to do with Pagans. The christmas tree, the easter bunny etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Snellvillain Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Apparently all christains holidays have to do with Pagans. The christmas tree, the easter bunny etc.It's because Christians wanted Pagans erased from history. If they weren't trying to convert them to their made-up religion, they were slaughtering them and stealing all of their symbols and making them their own. Yay for debowing religions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 It's because Christians wanted Pagans erased from history. If they weren't trying to convert them to their made-up religion, they were slaughtering them and stealing all of their symbols and making them their own. Yay for debowing religions.That's partly true. The ones that wouldn't convert were dealt with in ways that weren't Christian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dem Birds Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Thanks guys for putting a downer on the Carlos Mencia rip-off thread I made.... which he probably ripped off from someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Thanks guys for putting a downer on the Carlos Mencia rip-off thread I made.... which he probably ripped off from someone else.Sorry. LOL!Now that I think of it...whatever happened to that guy anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dem Birds Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Sorry. LOL!Now that I think of it...whatever happened to that guy anyway? Joe Rogen hid the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDaveG Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Apparently all christains holidays have to do with Pagans. The christmas tree, the easter bunny etc.This is predominately true in the Western Church, but it is a later innovation. The Eastern Church in America has adopted some of this, but their customs are WAY different. More a cultural thing than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogsPride89 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Jesus rose from the dead...Supposedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus2.0 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Everyone smelled like ham yesterday. Gross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiiNGofLONDON™ Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 and the Holocaust actually happened.Supposedly.still laughing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogsPride89 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 and the Holocaust actually happened.Supposedly.No, it didn't "supposedly" happen. It did happen, we have physical evidence to know that it happened. We have no physical evidence to know if Jesus really rose from the dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker23 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Why hasn't there been a single "biblical" event in the last 1000 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogsPride89 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Why hasn't there been a single "biblical" event in the last 1000 years?Ohhhhhhhhhhh......SERVED!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Ohhhhhhhhhhh......SERVED!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigg zagg Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 there have been plenty of biblical events in the last thousand years. dr seuss, old mother hubbard, peter pan etc...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesome Possum Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Why hasn't there been a single "biblical" event in the last 1000 years?uh because the bible was written way before then?it's not like they can just update it every time something biblical happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xnex Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 uh because the bible was written way before then?it's not like they can just update it every time something biblical happens Why not? That would be a miracle in and of itself. Something happens, you go to the Good Book and magically the event is already logged into the Bible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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