Jesus is coming...

[livi]

Originally Posted by kang

I hate to burst bubbles, but I must tell you: The easter bunny doesn’t actually exist. Sure, I know there is evidence, hidden eggs and all, but really, it doesn’t exist. I can’t prove it, but I can provide reasonable doubt. There are other, more reasonable explanations for how those hidden eggs got there than from an imaginary friend called the easter bunny.

Don´t you go telling me my God does not exist! Why is it that you eggnoggatheists always have to say demeaning things about my religion. You just wait, I just might burn your flag, embassy or blow up a car (not sure how to manage the last item, but still )!

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by stuartj

I'll bet. Prick of a way to spend Easter.

You got the wrong day.

[GDSOB]

Happy Dyngus Day!

Drink up!

[pmajka]

AS a christian, i think we should combine my holiday with yours....

Drink the wine then Eat the Bunny!

The eggs go in the Potato salad.

Originally Posted by djmcmath

Easter is a nutty holiday, and the Christian religion has definitely stolen a lot of the fun bits of ancient pagan ritualism. The eggs and bunnies started out, for sure, as a sign of fertility in ancient Canaanite rituals. It's no surprise that Easter's timing is based not on a modern date but on a particular phase of moon and astronomical sequencing -- how do you suppose the early folk knew when to plant their crops? So they said, "Let's plant crops, then have a big holiday!" These days, we've made it all family safe and skipped the orgies, but the feasting and fertility symbols have survived. (Well, not all of them -- Asherah Poles have gone away.)

I was raised in a devout Christian family that painted Easter eggs and ate chocolate bunnies. My Dad's philosophy is that the eggs are harmless, and they taste good. We're not having orgies, and we're not worshiping pagan deities, so it's ok. Right?

My wife, of course, is Jewish. This weekend, we celebrated Purim, which is an entirely different sort of holiday. It's a celebration of Esther's victory over Haman, wherein the entire population of Jewish people were saved from destruction. Thus, we celebrate by fasting (like all the Jews did), then feasting (like all the Jews did), and giving small gifts. My wife made pumpkin muffins for me to take to work to fulfill that requirement. Oh, and one more detail: long about the 5th century AD, some Jews were reveling and partying and singing a song about "Blessed be Mordecai" (Esther's in loco parentis) and "Cursed be Haman" (the evil villain who wanted all the Jews dead), and people were so drunk that they mixed up the chorus. So some rabbi decreed that people should get so drunk that they couldn't tell the difference between the two expressions, in Hebrew. Nutty.

Completed Jews, or Messianic Jews, or whatever you want to call those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, but remain observant of Torah and Mosaic Law, celebrate the Resurrection (Christian Easter) in the fall, iirc. It's got another name entirely, and they don't do eggs and bunnies at all. Seems like they fast, then feast, then get very drunk, while dancing the hora and singing in Hebrew. Fun stuff.

[RWebb]

Praise the Lord! When he gets here, he can help me lift this tranny!

I just hope his English has improved since the last time I saw him.

[dipso]

Jesus may be coming, but not in the way you think.
He is returning to strangle all the people wearing crosses around their necks.
I wear mine upside down to confuse him, after all, he is 2000 years old by now.
He had better hide from Nurse Ratchet. I am sure his dementia is worse than Mc Cains.
Do you think he even knows he is a god.
I would love to meet him, another homeless person. That's all we need.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I'm still trying to figure out why they call it "Good Friday"..

Aren't they all ?