easter

[angelwiththesword]

jesus was tortured, crucified and sent to hell for mankind's sins

we are eating chocolate, and watching bunnes lay eggs.

i, personally, am pagan, but i am disgusted by the commercialization of this religious holiday celebrating the death and ressurection of jesus the nazarene.
when the fuck did jesus ever say: "behold my hands and my feet bearing the symbols of chocolaty goodness"
and what the fuck is with the bunny?!

easter frustrates me










happy passover to the jewish community

[teaz0r]

jesus wasn't sent to hell. he resurrected a la alien style.

easter comes at the end of lent; the last week of Lent begins with Palm sunday (jesus' entry to Jerusalem where the people laid palms at his feet); Holy Thursday (Last Supper) which is the day before he got cruxified (Friday) and died on the cross, and then there's easter sunday, the the day of resurrection of jesus.

as for the easter bunny, you know that saying "fuck like bunnies", well yeah, bunnies are horny little animals so the are percieved as the most fertile animals, so they symbolize new life. like flowers bloom n' shit during the spring.

and the egg, it's a symbol of fertility and new life. there used to be like customs and what not. i forget. like eggs painted red symbolized CHrist's blood? (Bloody Christ). and different countries would like give eggs to different people, some would give to children some would give to like lovers and what not. sorta like "hey baby, i love you, here's an egg". (read: have my babies)

bunnies and eggs are also types of vibrators/stimulators.

[mr. x]

well you know how hollidays are, they are to soften up the population and appeal to as many as possible. I mean i didnt even know that christmas and easter had ANYTHING to do with Jesus as a kid (cept for the singing of the drummer boy song in school maybe). I mean a chocolate bunny? what could that possibly have to do with Jesus....

[Elizabeth A.]

Bunnies and eggs at Easter, like Christmas trees at Christmas, have pagan roots. They are symbols of new life. The word Easter comes from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostra, the goddess of spring. As for where the chocolate came from, I don't know. Eddie Izzard came up with this: "The color of chocolate and the color of the wood on the cross" are the same. Hey, it's as good an explanation as any.

As for the crass commercialism....it's just one of those stupid facts of life, I guess.


Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia!

[MellowDrama]

It's just like Christmas, with the trees, Santas, and the Christmas message of spend spend spend.

I just came back from Church. I went on Friday and tonight. That is the extent of my Easter participation.

[Tao]

what confuses me is why they call the day jesus got crucified "good friday". i mean, jesus just died people, the romans tortured him to no end, and some how this is "good"!! :confused: if it were up to me good friday would be called "the worst fucking friday ever"

[ChinaLama]

i think it's called Good Friday b/c Jesus's crucifixion is supposed to save all of mankind?

i dunno...well at least Jesus is still popular in South Park.

[Tao]

i think it's called Good Friday b/c Jesus's crucifixion is supposed to save all of mankind?

well yeah, but doesn't that seem a bit selfish to you? it does to me, i mean, here is the son of god, doing all this good around ppl, performing miracles and inspiring ppl, and then the romans torture him. obviously jesus asks god to forgive the sins of the ppl who are killing him, since they don't know what they are doing. so then jesus dies, while all the ppl on earth gets their sins removed? don't seem fair to me. it should be called unfortunate friday since the good ppl die, while the ppl who kill him gets their sins removed.

[ChinaLama]

well, assuming those Romans don't repent, they're fucked anyway! so it's really a bad Friday for them, too, cuz I'm sure God don't appreciate being killed.

[MellowDrama]

Originally posted by Tao@Apr 19 2003, 10:57 PM
what confuses me is why they call the day jesus got crucified "good friday". i mean, jesus just died people, the romans tortured him to no end, and some how this is "good"!! :confused: if it were up to me good friday would be called "the worst fucking friday ever"
Filfilled the prophecy.

[yoMAMA]

I'm not a christian, so easter means very little to me....

other than memories of hiding eggs during elementary school... :D

[Hiroshi2]

Originally posted by ChinaLama@Apr 19 2003, 11:03 PM
i think it's called Good Friday b/c Jesus's crucifixion is supposed to save all of mankind?


Yeah that's it. Technically, though (and let me just say that I'm no theologian) the act of mankind being saved from hell wasn't complete until Easter when Jesus resurrected from the dead. Otherwise, he would've been just some other crazy guy who the Romans crucified (crucifixition was a common form of punishment in ancient Rome, of course, just like lethal injection or even the electric chair is today, except WAY more gruesome)

[Shuriken]

http://www.astroanalyst.com/easter.htm

[angelwiththesword]

jesus wasn't sent to hell. he resurrected a la alien style.



in the book of matthew somewhere when he get's crucified, he yelled out "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"

this was because god had chosen jesus to die for the rest of mankind, and he was sent down to hell because he had absorbed the sin of all of mankind.

[Emperor_Mike]

Blame it all on the capitalists! It's all because of capitalism that we have such rampant commercialization of religious and non-religious holidays. All for a quick buck (or a few billion.)

And no, I'm not a Communist. I may sound like one, but I'm not. :P

[Hiroshi2]

Originally posted by angelwiththesword@Apr 20 2003, 06:14 PM
jesus wasn't sent to hell. he resurrected a la alien style.



in the book of matthew somewhere when he get's crucified, he yelled out "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"

this was because god had chosen jesus to die for the rest of mankind, and he was sent down to hell because he had absorbed the sin of all of mankind.
When the Bible says that he was "sent to hell" it's simply a poetic way of saying that he was sent to the grave.