Lan Barnes wrote:
On Wed, March 28, 2007 1:46 pm, James E. Henderson wrote:
Karl Cunningham wrote:
On 3/28/2007 11:32 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
Anyone ever have a Jewish friend share what it felt like in high
school to
get through the christmas season? Not exactly a time of joy and good
feelings for everybody.
No but I have a Jewish friend that lives near the top of Mt. Helix,
and every day when he walks out his front door he sees the cross on
top staring him in the face. Of course, he chose to live there and the
cross was there first.
And I have a Wiccan friend whose Autumn Weblog entries regularly decry
the perversion that Halloween has become. You wear the costume so your
dead enemies won't recognize you on their one night of return and play
fatal tricks on you. :-P
And I have this secular humanist friend who keeps wondering why Bill
O'Reilly gets all worked up about the "attack on the Easter Bunny," and
asks where, exactly, the E. Bunny fits into the christian doxology. Oh,
wait, that's me ...
The goddess Eostre supposedly transformed a bird into a hare that could
then lay colored eggs. Colored eggs were once placed on graves at the
spring equinox as a symbol for resurection. The sunrise ceremony was
also associated with Eostre, whose name referred to the coming of dawn's
first light -- either the dawn of the day or the dawn of the year at the
equinox -- and gave us the name Easter for the spring celebration of
resurection, a practice dating back about four thousand years. Despite
several condemnations of the holiday as pagan in the bible, Christians
incorporated it into their religion ... conveniently leaving out all
reference to the goddess.
James
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