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Happy Easter hope you all have a good day and dont eat your chocolate all at once ( or just melt it down and lick it off someone ) :giggle: :inlove:
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Casanova
Anytime hun we got lots of chocolate :giggle:
Master of Sex
we got a happy easter card `s that about then?
even if you are a christian,why would the anniversary of your god being strung up be something to be happy about ? not only that,but if its supposed to be the anniversary,why does easter move about? the church seems to know when christ was born but not quite sure when he died? or could it have been in their interest to claim pre-existing festivals as your own?
even if you are a christian,why would the anniversary of your god being strung up be something to be happy about ? not only that,but if its supposed to be the anniversary,why does easter move about? the church seems to know when christ was born but not quite sure when he died? or could it have been in their interest to claim pre-existing festivals as your own?
Warming the Bed
All valid questions, i hope you find some answers in what i write below.
Before i start, i want to be clear that i am an atheist. I am not a Christian. All these views are my own, based on my beliefs and personal knowledge. I hope nothing below causes offence to anyone, it certainly is not intended to.
Christians celebrate Easter because they belive that the Christ rose again, that he - a man - beat death, which means that all people who belive in him may also beat death. This is why Easter is the most important celebration in the Christian calendar - they belive it is THE reason they have the opportunity to be saved.
Easter is the celebration of Christ rising, not his death (though the death did have to happen for him to come back to life).
Easter is not an anniversary, it is simply when Christians celebrate the resurection. I dont think anyone actually thinks they know the exact DATE that Jesus died (and possibly rose).
THe CHurch does not claim to know when Jesus was born. The Catholic Church (and following Protestant chuch) simply decided to celebrate his birth on 25th December.
I have been told that Easter moves around because the early church decided to celebrate it on the first Sunday that followed a full moon within a certain calender date. Sorry i cant be more procise than that but i'm probing GSCE memories to tell u this ! lol
The Catholic Church has a different Easter date to the Orthodox Church because the Catholic Church (roughly west Europe) works from the Gregorian calendar, whereas the orthodox church (roughly eastern europe)works from the Julian calndar.
These different calendars are named after different popes, who "set" the new ways of dating the year. The Julian calendar predates the Gregorian.
Yes, i'm sure that the Church did impose their own celebrations on to days already made holy by other faiths. THis is not an unusual practice. The same is true with land, once a site is recognised as holy it tends to stay that way in people's minds regardless of what faith is thought to "make" it holy. Personally, i do not think that this is a sign of weakness or falseness in the church.
Before i start, i want to be clear that i am an atheist. I am not a Christian. All these views are my own, based on my beliefs and personal knowledge. I hope nothing below causes offence to anyone, it certainly is not intended to.
Christians celebrate Easter because they belive that the Christ rose again, that he - a man - beat death, which means that all people who belive in him may also beat death. This is why Easter is the most important celebration in the Christian calendar - they belive it is THE reason they have the opportunity to be saved.
Easter is the celebration of Christ rising, not his death (though the death did have to happen for him to come back to life).
Easter is not an anniversary, it is simply when Christians celebrate the resurection. I dont think anyone actually thinks they know the exact DATE that Jesus died (and possibly rose).
THe CHurch does not claim to know when Jesus was born. The Catholic Church (and following Protestant chuch) simply decided to celebrate his birth on 25th December.
I have been told that Easter moves around because the early church decided to celebrate it on the first Sunday that followed a full moon within a certain calender date. Sorry i cant be more procise than that but i'm probing GSCE memories to tell u this ! lol
The Catholic Church has a different Easter date to the Orthodox Church because the Catholic Church (roughly west Europe) works from the Gregorian calendar, whereas the orthodox church (roughly eastern europe)works from the Julian calndar.
These different calendars are named after different popes, who "set" the new ways of dating the year. The Julian calendar predates the Gregorian.
Yes, i'm sure that the Church did impose their own celebrations on to days already made holy by other faiths. THis is not an unusual practice. The same is true with land, once a site is recognised as holy it tends to stay that way in people's minds regardless of what faith is thought to "make" it holy. Personally, i do not think that this is a sign of weakness or falseness in the church.
Warming the Bed
Oh yes, Happy Easter !
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Sex God
Happy Easter all. 
Happy Easter guys and girls.....
Following on from what trixie said (good post btw) Easter is a celebration of rebirth, hence the chocolate easter egg, a symbolic gift that we give, to hope that we pass on the message and chance of rebirth to those we love.
I myself, like trixie am an atheist, but that does not mean I don't have a spiritual side, I am very spiritual and yes I celebrate Easter and Christmas.
Why then, am I a hypocrite?
No, not at all, as a spiritual person I have decided to disregard a chosen faith such as Christianity, Buddhism etc and concentrate on the parts of religion I KNOW to be true rather than believe what somebody else has written which gives THEIR interpretations on faith and events!!
I have a "Bible according to me" philosophy, where I set down my own beliefs and faith brought about by how I see the world.
I dont wanna get all "religious on your asses" and start a huge debate on religious theology but the Gnostic Gospels, thought to be the true written word of Jesus, are vastly different from the Bible which has been rewritten and reworded MANY, MANY times over the past 2000 years.
The Gnostic Gospels preach more about "personal faith" more akin to the "......look under a rock and there you will find me, pick up a log and there I am......" stuff that theologists take to mean that Jesus didnot believe we had to go to a church or believe in one set faith, but that we must exercise good spiritual practice in our everyday lives, as God was all around us in the world we live.
Anyway I sound like im giving a sermon (spelling check anyone?)
but what I really wanna say is that, everyone, regardless of their faith or spiritual beliefs can take an important message from Easter, that we all have the ability through our OWN faith or belief to be "reborn" or change who we are to become better than we were.
Now dont go eating all those chocolates an makin' yourselves sick dudes!!
Have a good 'un.
Following on from what trixie said (good post btw) Easter is a celebration of rebirth, hence the chocolate easter egg, a symbolic gift that we give, to hope that we pass on the message and chance of rebirth to those we love.
I myself, like trixie am an atheist, but that does not mean I don't have a spiritual side, I am very spiritual and yes I celebrate Easter and Christmas.
Why then, am I a hypocrite?
No, not at all, as a spiritual person I have decided to disregard a chosen faith such as Christianity, Buddhism etc and concentrate on the parts of religion I KNOW to be true rather than believe what somebody else has written which gives THEIR interpretations on faith and events!!
I have a "Bible according to me" philosophy, where I set down my own beliefs and faith brought about by how I see the world.
I dont wanna get all "religious on your asses" and start a huge debate on religious theology but the Gnostic Gospels, thought to be the true written word of Jesus, are vastly different from the Bible which has been rewritten and reworded MANY, MANY times over the past 2000 years.
The Gnostic Gospels preach more about "personal faith" more akin to the "......look under a rock and there you will find me, pick up a log and there I am......" stuff that theologists take to mean that Jesus didnot believe we had to go to a church or believe in one set faith, but that we must exercise good spiritual practice in our everyday lives, as God was all around us in the world we live.
Anyway I sound like im giving a sermon (spelling check anyone?)
but what I really wanna say is that, everyone, regardless of their faith or spiritual beliefs can take an important message from Easter, that we all have the ability through our OWN faith or belief to be "reborn" or change who we are to become better than we were.Now dont go eating all those chocolates an makin' yourselves sick dudes!!
Have a good 'un.
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Happy Easter hope you all have a good day and dont eat your chocolate all at once ( or just melt it down and lick it off someone ) :giggle: :inlove:
Was just going to eat my choccy...........but that sounds a much better idea, thank you :P
Happy Easter everybody.......hope you have a great holiday
Warming the Bed
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Oh yes, Happy Easter !
lol
xxx
and welcome to the forum from me 
Thanks Anais
