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Ex Member
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I am sure that if God exists - and sorry guys, but I don't think he does (at least, not in any conventionally thought manner) - he would not want humankind to celebrate such a thing in such a way at all. God would believe that humans should celebrate such a thing in any way which causes them to remember what happened to that young man on the cross, and what happened after. Easter eggs are hardly the way to do that (unless they were inscribed with the stations of the cross, or something). Similarly, I think that complaining about various festivals' pagan origins is, to put it bluntly, silly. After all, most of Judaeo-Christian teaching comes, at some point in the very distant past, from pagan religions. And now these ideas are fully integrated, so long as people are celebrating, truly, the death and resurrection of Christ, then the little accoutrements are ok. In Anglo Saxon England, the Church was actually based around the pre-existing ideas of Kinship and meeting houses. So most of the churches in England are therefore descended from pagan ideas. It is a little, as I said earlier, silly, too say that any pagan thing is bad when linked with Christianity. I also believe that religion is very contrived, and having a monotheistic belief system based on a pre-existing multi-thesitic belief system just shows how insane organised religion is. I also think that those sites Tech directed us too are going a bit over the top - "These things are no joke, anymore than judgement day is no joke", etc. All very interesting, but....
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