You guys are pagans with your hard boiled eggs.

[Willh]

The whole point of easter is to worship Ishtar, from which the name easter us derived. Dying your eggs is, especially when done with red colored dye, equivalent to no less than sending your kids through the fire before Moloch.

"Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!" (From "Howl" by Allen Ginsburg)

Anyways, all joking aside...what is your interpretation of the myth of resurrection? What is your take on it, particularly in regards the literal/symbolic aspects?

[vbhoutex]

My 1st response to you is why do you call the RESURRECTION a myth? We'll go from there.

[Willh]

My 1st response to you is why do you call the RESURRECTION a myth? We'll go from there.

Really difficult to explain. I don't mean it in the manner it is usually meant...ie, something synonymous with a falsehood...which is not what the word really means.
I mean it, vaguely, to mean anything that is believed independent of proof...typically something that involves ritual, in whatever form.
Then again, that's not a good definition either. At all.

[Lindaloo]

Christ's Resurrection a Myth? I don't think so!!

[Guest]

Who are you to call anyone a pagan because they dye their eggs? Would you like it if I called you a pagan? Towards the bottom of your response, you said all joking aside. So your pagan attack was a joke? One piece of advice for you, be careful how you choose your words.

[Willh]

Who are you to call anyone a pagan because they dye their eggs? Would you like it if I called you a pagan? Towards the bottom of your response, you said all joking aside. So your pagan attack was a joke? One piece of advice for you, be careful how you choose your words.

Calm down...lets get in touch with our inner primordial sea.
Look at it waving. See those waves? Now lets try and calm them, slow them down till they're as placid as a pond. That's you. That pond is. And it's me, and it's everyone else, too. See that nice water, all calm, no waves, no choppiness?
Isn't that better, more inviting than the temporality of the wind driven wave you once were? Don't you feel at ease within yourself, within your soul, now?

[Miss Mary]

Well, if Jen's 'waters' were stirred, so were mine.

Strange, strange topic if you ask me. Just hardboiled a batch of eggs and I will smile as we color them tonight. Oh yes I will!

Mary

[GalvestonDuck]

First off, Ishtar was a really bad movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty and I don't celebrate Easter in honor of motion picture bombs.

Second, Easter is derived from Ostra, the Scandinavian name for the "Spring Goddess," or Eostre (the Anglo-Saxon term).

Third, the eggs represent a life and the resurrection. The shell is the casket from which the dead emerge and come back to life.

Fourth, "Moloch" is an arguable deity. I've heard a number of discussions concerning "Moloch" being a sun-god for the Canaanites or another name for Yahweh when child sacrifices were being offered in the Old Testament (according to some Hebrew scholars) or the Sumerian god Baal. I don't really know. But just as I don't say "Allah," neither do I say "Moloch." So, I'll leave that name out of my Easter thoughts, thank you.

And finally, if it's not on Snopes.com, I challenge you to prove the Resurrection is a myth.

[Willh]

First off, Ishtar was a really bad movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty and I don't celebrate Easter in honor of motion picture bombs.

Second, Easter is derived from Ostra, the Scandinavian name for the "Spring Goddess," or Eostre (the Anglo-Saxon term).

Third, the eggs represent a life and the resurrection. The shell is the casket from which the dead emerge and come back to life.

Fourth, "Moloch" is an arguable deity. I've heard a number of discussions concerning "Moloch" being a sun-god for the Canaanites or another name for Yahweh when child sacrifices were being offered in the Old Testament (according to some Hebrew scholars) or the Sumerian god Baal. I don't really know. But just as I don't say "Allah," neither do I say "Moloch." So, I'll leave that name out of my Easter thoughts, thank you.

And finally, if it's not on Snopes.com, I challenge you to prove the Resurrection is a myth.

I'm referencing the extreme Christians who attack easter as being a pagan holiday...and there are quite a few...and their argument stems from what I posted.
Again, the first part of my message was entirely a joke.

[Guest]

Calm down...lets get in touch with our inner primordial sea.
Look at it waving. See those waves? Now lets try and calm them, slow them down till they're as placid as a pond. That's you. That pond is. And it's me, and it's everyone else, too. See that nice water, all calm, no waves, no choppiness?
Isn't that better, more inviting than the temporality of the wind driven wave you once were? Don't you feel at ease within yourself, within your soul, now?

Just trying to stir up more trouble, huh? I don't appreciate your condescending attitude misguided little boy. Why don't you and your pagan hogwash take a hike?

[Willh]

I'll further clarify...
What I said in the beginning of my message was not my own words.
I'm shocked no one else has ever heard of this...a large/vocal group of christians believe easter to be a pagan holiday, and they typically get particularly vocal in regards to this point right around this time, spewing out all sorts of half truthes re: the origins of easter, etc, etc...generally to the end of condemning the Catholic church.
And that's what I was referencing by calling those involved in its practice "pagans". It was entirely sarcastic.

[Willh]

Calm down...lets get in touch with our inner primordial sea.
Look at it waving. See those waves? Now lets try and calm them, slow them down till they're as placid as a pond. That's you. That pond is. And it's me, and it's everyone else, too. See that nice water, all calm, no waves, no choppiness?
Isn't that better, more inviting than the temporality of the wind driven wave you once were? Don't you feel at ease within yourself, within your soul, now?

Just trying to stir up more trouble, huh? I don't appreciate your condescending attitude misguided little boy. Why don't you and your pagan hogwash take a hike?

I'm attempting to set you on the correct path the self realization/actualization. What's wrong with that?

[therock1811]

Sarcasm or not, I do NOT appreciate being called, or having my friends called pagans!

[GalvestonDuck]

I'm referencing the extreme Christians who attack easter as being a pagan holiday...and there are quite a few...and their argument stems from what I posted.
Again, the first part of my message was entirely a joke.

It's my understanding that only non-Judeo-Christian celebrants of Easter/Passover consider it a pagan holiday based on the non-Anglo references to its origin. Care to show me where extreme Christians have attacked it as pagan?

[Willh]

I'm referencing the extreme Christians who attack easter as being a pagan holiday...and there are quite a few...and their argument stems from what I posted.
Again, the first part of my message was entirely a joke.

It's my understanding that only non-Judeo-Christian celebrants of Easter/Passover consider it a pagan holiday based on the non-Anglo references to its origin. Care to show me where extreme Christians have attacked it as pagan?

http://www.retakingamerica.com/easter_and_ishtar.html

[weatherluvr]

Aw c'mon guys, let's lighten up a little. Granted his title was a little shocking, but it's clear to me he's doing this tongue-in cheek.

I think everybody's a little too on edge from the past couple of days here.

[Willh]

Sarcasm or not, I do NOT appreciate being called, or having my friends called pagans!

That's nice to know, I'm glad you're willing to stand up for your friends in the face of true evil and danger.

[therock1811]

Sarcasm or not, I do NOT appreciate being called, or having my friends called pagans!

That's nice to know, I'm glad you're willing to stand up for your friends in the face of true evil and danger.

Well I hope so! Because I do not like seeing ppl being insulted, beaten up or otherwise hurt which it sure as heck sounds like is going on here and has been for 4 days. For His sake can we all not just get along????

[Lindaloo]

I knew it was only a matter of time before your true colors came shining through will.

You need to read the rules of conduct again.

[Anonymous]

I knew it was only a matter of time before your true colors came shining through will.

LMAO