Today at a large intersection people with signs "Easter is about Jesus"

[spanone]

They were yelling at cars, not asking for money or anything. I just thought it was pretty bizarre. Is that some kind of new Christian thing? Anybody else encounter this? This was not connected with Schiavo as far as I could tell.

[Bluebear]

1. Is Easter "under attack" by the liberals now?

Prompting the need to "protest" the obvious?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. I think not, but Jesus sure seems to be...

under attack by the loonies down in FL:

[Elidor]

64. That's the new Jesus Christ Portable Charcoal Grill, great for cookouts

Just unsnap the cover, erect Our Savior and throw on some burgers! Mmmm. :9 In as little as 30 minutes, you and your fellow fundie fanatics can be wolfing down cows under the watchful gaze of The Lord.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

69. You're gonna burn...

but I'll be right there with ya. :-)

[xpat]

2. This is not a Christian thing

The whole fucking country is going nuts. We are on the verge of some kind of civil war. All sorts of whackjobs will come out of the woodwork.

[FlemingsGhost]

9. Not civil war ... revolution

Remember, these folks are hardly the majority. All that remains, is to see just how much the rest of America can endure or deny, until it all comes crashing down.

I can't wait. The sooner the better.

[Midnight Rambler]

3. And I thought churces were packed on Easter because of that rabbit

Silly me

[tubbacheez]

4. Tell them they're celebrating a Pagan holiday. Hehehehe!

http://www.witchvox.com/holidays/ostara/ostarahistory.html

[queeg]

5. I thought Easter was about nailing a jewish dude to a cross

and I swear there's a NASCAR race on sunday--- doesn't easter have something to do with car racing--- maybe its basketball. I bet the whole bible thing is wrong and Judas got his 30 pieces of silver for scapling a couple of tickets to the final 4 games. That has to be the TRUE easter---

[saltpoint]

36. Your version is no less reliable than the account we're handed.

And yeah. Why do god-fearers permit NASCAR racing on Easter Sunday?

[jazzjunkysue]

56. It's so gruesome, I just can't deal with it.

[megatherium]

67. no no no, that was Good Friday.

Easter is about when the Jewish dude freaked everyone out by showing up after he'd been dead for two days.

[FlemingsGhost]

6. Easter is about religion.

God gave us the truth. The Devil came along, organized it, and called it religion.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Ok, so it's about Jesus

So what's the issue?

[spanone]

11. Good question. Why do they feel the need to tell people that?

And to yell at cars about it. Some weird shit. Go help somebody.

[sakabatou]

13. To remind them, I guess...

:shrug:

[donco6]

7. Easter is about jesus - i.e., . . .

"you're all going to hell if you don't believe in him and get your ass to church tomorrow."

[Midnight Rambler]

10. Guess I'm going to hell then

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[SammyWinstonJack]

43. I'll be keeping you company

:evilgrin:

[megatherium]

68. "Heaven for climate, hell for society" -- Mark Twain nt

[rlev1223]

17. check out.....

http://www.modernmirth.com/04dec/end.html

(I'm not promoting the mag anymore as we are on "extended hiatus"
but this seems appropos)

[mmonk]

8. I guess this means

they are better than everyone else who don't carry signs?

[donco6]

12. Bingo!

At least, that's my impression. They probably want all the stores to close, all activity to stop, all because some long-ago Christian forebear decided to co-opt Ishtar.

[bigwillq]

14. Jeez, I thought it was about the BUNNY!

:shrug:

[meganmonkey]

18. No, it's about CHOCOLATE bunnies

The solid ones, not the cheap-ass Russell Stover Hollow ones! :P

[bigwillq]

20. It's also about Easter Egg Hunts!

:bounce:

[CoffeeCat]

16. I bet these people with the signs....

...are the same people who just came from Super Target with a big haul of: marshmallow peeps, chocolate bunnies, colored baskets, egg-dyeing kits, hinged-plastic-fillable eggs, pastel-Easter-Egg-lights for their outside bushes, a "Spring-is-Here" wooden door decoration, a chicky snow globe, a woman's pastel sweater set with embroidered bunnies and carrots, 2 children's Easter dresses, a whole ham, a box of instant potatoes, 2 bags of frozen vegetables, 1 cherry pie, 1 lemon pie, 1 chocolate pie, 3 disposable aluminum pie tins, injectable ham marinade, plastic cups, Chinet paper plates, 2 bags of ice--and a People Magazine and a $1.59 single serve Diet Coke for the ride home.

Nimrods!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. Mmmm...Peeps...

[Pool Hall Ace]

29. Peeps are on the march!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

33. LOL They'd have to march - someone ate their wings! (n/t)

[spanone]

32. Strangely enough, it was right next to a Target store.

[deadparrot]

21. I'm glad they cleared that up. nt

[gollygee]

22. Easter is a pagan word, not a Christian word

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Thus, estrus, I would presume...

Being in heat. Hmm....this whole holiday is about being in heat??

[gollygee]

28. LOL basically

also estrogen is related :)

[PATRICK]

23. For the love of yelling

Any provocation will produce the same results with supposedly different creeds and peoples. The love of violence and the addiction to wrath. The need to punish soon supersedes the need to "rescue" or "love".

Let's take another type of fanatic behavior. the Roman soldier who was tired of living secretly in the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the Roman Army when Christianity was outlawed. He went in to headquarters, witnessed against the abhorrent hedonism and was executed as he expected to be.

The miserable species you see today are not up to that standard and the key difference of course is the need to personally punish others not embrace martyrdom which they fearfully and comically spout even when that danger simply does not exist except for a night in jail that peace activists take much better in stride.

[tinonedown]

24. Another lovely Christian tolerance thread at DU

What's that, number 34,324 thread count the past two weeks?
Ah, the wonderful practice of freedom of religion. Can't get in on the right, can't find it anywhere on the left. Well, you can find it on the left if you discount Christianity. Which is a little better than the right which includes Protestant only.

[FlemingsGhost]

30. "Hide thread" is your friend.

Just voicing our opinions. It's still allowed, you know.

[QC]

63. tinonedown is also expressing an opinion.

That's still allowed, you know.

[spanone]

34. That's not what this thread is about. I'm just wondering why Christians

feel the need to do this. I'm not saying they're wrong, I've just never seen it before. Do they feel threatened? I dunno.

[Blue Gardener]

42. Threatened by the Easter Bunny

And Santa Claus.
Kind of pathetic if their faith is so weak they feel threatened by a bunny and a fat man in a red suit.

[Carni]

52. I thought the thread was about whackos screaming bullshit at people

In a major intersection?

[jazzjunkysue]

57. your christianity was brought into politics by politicians, not us.

We who don't believe that Jesus was conceived immaculately and jonah lived in a whale for 900 years are tired of all this christian killing. Ths culture of life bombing. These freedom occupations. These pro-life death threats. The jesus-worshipping death penalty proponents. The gun toting persecuted.

It was never our idea to attack anyone based on their religion. That's the current administration, and the republican party, as long as it lets junior keep beating up the other kids in the sand box.

America's #1 evangelical is a liar, a thief, and a murderer. If you want that defended, you'll have to look for a nice thread where they make you drink the cool-aid before letting you in. I believe it's called freeperville, and they're wondering why you're over here being tempted by us satan worshippers.

Run home to your mommy. She'll tell you pretty stories. If you want the truth, stick around a while and put the pieces together, yourself.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. Once again...

God and Jesus do NOT need all this extra rah-rah support. They are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, one would think, if they are truly omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent as the Christians teach. What about that don't these people understand?

[0rganism]

26. Silly rabbit, Easter is for Jesus!

[seabeyond]

31. easter was celebration of resurrection, now celebration

of Crucifixion

[Walt Starr]

35. Hmmmmm, Matthew 6:5-6

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

[JNelson6563]

38. This came to mind

when I saw three people on Friday carrying signs that said Jesus died for your sins to be forgiven. I wanted to make a sign with the Scripture you quote and plant it next to them but didn't have time or sign making stuff on hand.

Julie

[MollyStark]

41. Matthew 5:16

# Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter)

These people in the OP were not praying were they?

[VOX]

37. Barking at traffic, as mindlessly as a pack of dogs.

I mean, really now, since *when* has Easter been under attack from anybody? Oh, yeah, let's all just take things so damned literally and seriously that **all** the fun is sucked out of everything! :grr:

Can you say, "American Taliban?" :grr:

[Disturbed]

40. Jesus supposedly died by being crucified.

After 3 days he came back to life and spent 40 or so days preaching some more, then he supposedly rose up into heaven. How he did that is a mystery.

The easter bunny and eggs aren't in the Judeo/Christian bible.

[MollyStark]

44. Yes

Happy Easter.

[jazzjunkysue]

59. I've never seen that photo, before. Yikes!

[BlueEyedSon]

60. YEAH, and bunnies are MAMMALS... they don't even LAY EGGS.

[Art_from_Ark]

71. American Taliban

There, I said it

[mmonk]

39. To be honest,

I've never felt more alienated from my religion or country than I am now. Thanks alot, lunatics. Anyone else feel this way or am I alone?

[Speed8098]

45. What is going on here?

I am anything but religious, but this whole thread, with the exception of a few posters, is sickening.

The snide comments, the sarcastic remarks, and the general all around bashing of people because of their beliefs, is not what the Democratic party stands for.

Do you think it's right to pick and choose who we want to be tolerant of??? Should we tolerate YOU?

To Christians, this is a sacred holiday. Who are you to disrespect them, or how they choose to celebrate?

I may not believe in your religious system, but I will respect it as if it were my own. In doing so, I would hope that you would act in kind.

All of you.........Look at what you look like.


Is this what you want the Democratic Party to become?

The intolerant?
The wise asses?
The ignorant?

[mmonk]

46. Everyone who lives in America

pretty much knows what Easter is about. There's no religious reason to carry signs.

[Speed8098]

48. That's not the point.

It is their right to carry signs, yell at cars, or tattoo their faces if they want to.

It is our duty to make sure that they can exercise that right without fear of repercussion.

Isn't that what it's all about?

Tolerance? Acceptance? Compassion?

The right wing is the opposite of everything I've said. Is that what you want us to turn into?

Looking at this thread, we don't have far to go.

[mmonk]

50. When they tolerate me, I'll tolerate them

[Speed8098]

53. Wrong Attitude

That smacks of "America, Love it or Leave it", or "You're either with us or against us".

With the statement, "When they tolerate me, I'll tolerate them", where does it end?

It's circular, it's immature.

I hate to use an old saying, but I think it applies here.

"Grant me the serenity to change the things I can change, accept the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference."

In the original, the word GOD precedes the sentence, but for the sake of this conversation, I left it out.

Think about it.

[mmonk]

55. Actually I'm Christian

Their actions don't seem in keeping with Jesus of Nazareth. Additionally, they are supporting a judiciary that may take away rights and a government that violates many tenants of the faith. Many of these self praising promoters essentially give my faith a bad name.

[jazzjunkysue]

61. I respect christians. I don't respect the people who call themselves

christians and are currently driving this world back to the 9th century. I'll respect christians when they stop using the church as a battering ram. There should be a priest or minister asking these people to go home or do some community service. If the church wants respect, it should start acting respectably. It should stop supporting murder. Period. It should stop supporting war. If it is aggressive, it's not attached to god, it's false prophetizing, and it needs to be stopped.

[psychopomp]

73. Jesus was in-your-face when he wanted to make a point

After his march on the capitol leading a crowd of followers he did a good job of trashing the temple on his own iirc.

[MellowOne]

47. It's the loonies that give Christianity a bad name

People who REALLY know Christ are usually humble, loving and forgiving people.

[Radio-Active]

49. Of all the important issues that are needed to hold protests over..

they sure picked the most important one. :freak:

[Carni]

51. Hence the reason I have a bunny head decoration on my front door

The *Easter* Bunny is actually a pagan symbol and the whackos are threatened by it.

[Tsiyu]

54. Now there's a way to show your reverence for your

Risen Savior.

Stand on a corner and yell at people.

Real reverence, there. Yessirreee. Lots of contemplation and desire to share one's joy.


From the book of George 3:16: " And thou shalt spend the day of Thy Lord's Resurrection not eating chocolate bunnies or spiral-sliced hams, but thou shalt stand on the street corners and berate the heathen who are not also on street corners berating other heathen."

[BlueEyedSon]

58. Easter is not about Jesus, fundie f*&kheads!

Meanwhile, many of the cultural historians find, in the celebration of Easter, a convergence of the three traditions - Pagan, Hebrew and Christian.

According to St. Bede, an English historian of the early 8th century, Easter owes its origin to the old Teutonic mythology. It was derived from the name Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month of April was dedicated. The festival of Eostre was celebrated at the vernal equinox, when the day and night gets an equal share of the day.

The English name "Easter" is much newer. When the early English Christians wanted others to accept Christianity, they decided to use the name Easter for this holiday so that it would match the name of the old spring celebration. This made it more comfortable for other people to accept Christianity.

But it is pointed out by some that the Easter festival, as celebrated today, is related with the Hebrew tradition, the Jewish Passover. This is being celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew lunar year. The Jewish Passover under Moses commemorates Israel's deliverance from about 300 years of bondage in Egypt.

http://www.theholidayspot.com/easter/history/easter_history.htm

[QC]

62. Pesky free speech!

Some of us here seem to want a world in which religion has no public presence. Well, in a nation in which over 90% of the public identifies with some kind of religion, it's not going to happen.

Besides, if these people had been standing at an intersection shouting that Bush stole the election, we would all be high-fiving them. Sounds like another case of "free speech for me, but not for thee."

[spanone]

65. I wasn't at all questioning their right to do what they were doing.

I was question why they were doing it. I don't see the Jews or the Muslims out on the corners with signs explaining their religious beliefs. That was my only question. Not bashing Christians.

[DearAbby]

72. They have their free speech...and I stand for it... I dont have to respect

I don't have to agree with it, nor do I have to give it respect.

It is like the KKK has the right to stand there and yell their foul hate, I don't have to agree with it, nor do I have to give it respect.

I am not a captive audience, nor am I obliged to applaud it. Just protect their right to free speech.

[demwing]

66. Even the Christians know. Easter is a pagan Spring celebration

Here's a link to a Christian Q and A session:

http://www.gotquestions.org/easter-origins.html

Discusses the tue origins, the Christianiation of the Pagan, and the commercialization of the tradition.

[Zhade]

70. Ironic that it's a ripped-off pagan holiday, eh?

NT!