You should try being a little more tolerant of other beliefs and not have to preach to us every bloody post about how you aren't a believer in any sort of higher power. Isn't it tolerance the thing you have been telling religious people to practice?oh but it is ok for you lot to preach about your bloody belief in a higher power in every bloody post??????have to balance out the christian preaching and their belief that they have the rigth to do stuff people of other beliefs doesnt, and I think Im a bit more tolerant to others beliefs than the christian lot are,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh and you should train yourself in the skill of telling a mocking post from one of real seriousness. Hence the post of mine you quoted
Originally posted by finti
oh but it is ok for you lot to preach about your bloody belief in a higher power in every bloody post??????have to balance out the christian preaching and their belief that they have the rigth to do stuff people of other beliefs doesnt, and I think Im a bit more tolerant to others beliefs than the christian lot are,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh and you should train yourself in the skill of telling a mocking post from one of real seriousness. Hence the post of mine you quoted
You are always bringing up the issue of whether or not God exists in threads that have nothing to do with it.
But regardless, I'll just shut up now. I've been in a pissy mood lately. Sorry.
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Sacred symbols......the fish and Jesus.
i have heard that while jesus birthday is celebrated on december 25, he wasnt even born this day! so why go to church then?
and if easter is meant to be the day that he supposedly came back alive, why do we have easter on a different day each year? if he came back alive on say, the 6th of march, why dont we have easter every year on the same date, instead we have it in march, then the year after it is april, then march again...
Originally posted by Evanescence
i have heard that while jesus birthday is celebrated on december 25, he wasnt even born this day! so why go to church then?and if easter is meant to be the day that he supposedly came back alive, why do we have easter on a different day each year? if he came back alive on say, the 6th of march, why dont we have easter every year on the same date, instead we have it in march, then the year after it is april, then march again...
For those of us that are well-informed, educated and bold about the truth on matters like this, I'd say don't make a big deal out of it. It's perfectly fine not attending either one since they're both nothing more than commercial holidays with hardly supporting any shred of evidence of anything to do with the true history of Jesus(Yeshua/Jesu -- his real name in his native Aramaic tongue).
Originally posted by debbiejo
They are both based on pagan religious beliefs....Christmas is a Mithras birthday....sun god.....Easter was a fertility holiday , hence the bunnies and little chicks hatching........It merged with Christianity in the early 3rd century, I think........bringing in the pagans.......
NO, Christmas id the celebration of christs birth, and easter is the celebration of Christ's resurection.
Originally posted by cking
I celebrate the true christmas, not santa claus, or the easter bunny, but jesus himself.
You should celebrate goodness all the time...not on spiecial gift giving pagan days....though I do Loooove gifts...
There was a time when I really struggled about whether to celebrate these days.....but came to the conclusion....that fun is fun...I'll celebrate Mithra and Ishtar
History shows that the Roman State religion was one of sun-worship (Mithraism) at first, then Constantine enforced a blended form of Christianity and Mithraism on the empire. He out-lawed the true Sabbath, and enforced Sun-day worship under penalty of death. He established Catholicism (Latin meaning: Universalism) by setting the dates for observing the weekly "sabbath" as Sun-day, and Easter for the empire. (Easter was already one of several vital Pagan observances, originally "Ishtar", commemorating the impregnation of the Earth-Mother nine months prior to the winter solstice!).
Haven't you ever wondered why many days are celebrated around the Solstice....Winter-Jesus birth, spring-easter
Originally posted by JLRTENJAC
NO, Christmas id the celebration of christs birth, and easter is the celebration of Christ's resurection.
You're wrong.
No one knows when Jesus was born. The only thing remotely related to Jesus in Christmas comes from the gospels of Luke and Matthew. And neither don't know when he was born.
And you know the funny thing is, what debbiejo said was no big secret at all. And it isn't outlandish either. It's even stated in the encyclopedia about the history of Christmas. Go ahead, look it up.
Re: Why is church always packed on Christmas/Easter?
Originally posted by FeceMan
Why do the twice-a-year attendees pick these two dates to go to church?
Easily the greatest (or one of the greatest) questions ever asked. I surmise that people do it for "religious reasons. Not because they love God. Religion is humanity's attempt to relate to God. But Jesus is God's attempt to have a relationship with us. Religion of not God's plan for us "relationship" with each of us is God's desire.
Re: Re: Why is church always packed on Christmas/Easter?
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Easily the greatest (or one of the greatest) questions ever asked. I surmise that people do it for "religious reasons. Not because they love God. Religion is humanity's attempt to relate to God. But Jesus is God's attempt to have a relationship with us. Religion of not God's plan for us "relationship" with each of us is God's desire.
Or maybe it is simply because there are far more lax, liberal Christians these days who feel attendance on the two most important dates on the "Christian" calender are all that is required?
Then there are less then once a year Christians - they only attend Churches for funerals, weddings and Christenings.