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'i am offended' is the most overused and meaningless term in common usage today. It is used to silence critical comments when there is no answer to them. It's the easy way out of a hard question.

>>.>>>> yep. totally agree x

I must say this thread is very informative I think I shall ask GR to make it a sticky :-D

lol Cyn

I believe I mentioned the council of Nicea.....from which the Nicene creed stems...and I don't believe I was inferring that rabbits and eggs were anything to do with the church, as they patently obviously are not - the connection is that they are pagan, and that the pagan festivals were hijacked by the church, which is something that millions of people will not be aware, even though the facts are in plain view, How many people know the origins of the names for the days of the week?

I would hope that you dont get offended at anything I write. I mean, I could easily say that I am offended by people quoting the bible as fact, by asserting that the jesus myth is true and all that sort of stuff. But how could I be offended by anything so absurd? Equally, as a person of faith, I am sure you find my ramblings just as absurd and therefore equally unable to offend. As is right and proper.

'i am offended' is the most overused and meaningless term in common usage today. It is used to silence critical comments when there is no answer to them. It's the easy way out of a hard question. 'I am offended by that' negates the need to respond with a reasoned argument or rebuttal. Its a smokescreen, a whine. Danish cartoonists and the Satanic Verses - both totally harmless and innocuous - created a massive outburst of contrived and false offendedness which led to death and destruction. Religion reserves for itself a special place whereby criticism causes offence and is thereby silenced. It's a very old tactic and fortunately it's less effective now than ever before.

So I am pleased that you are not offended :-) I might even treat you to a hot cross bun one day. Buttered, of course.

I take it the original post was rr'd and then err....resurrected (sorry)


I enjoyed reading it, even though I already knew about the pagan festival.

I did a presentation that included the pagan/wiccan calendar and it was 'interesting to see how each festival coincided with a event in the christian calendar.

Edit to say, I love easter egg chocolate so yes I will be eating one next week :-D

Well i must say what was wrong with the opening post ive just read it and cant find anything to be upset about , so i would say someones got itchy fingers.. :-D :-D

as for eating easter eggs i cant anymore i have a dairy intolerance :-(

Quote.....Its the start again of the spring fertility festival season, and next weekend millions of people will be eating easter eggs, cuddling rabbits and saying 'Happy Easter' without having the faintest idea that it is a pagan festival hijacked by the church......unquote.




Actually, Eldrick my friend, I think you will find that millions of people will be eating Easter eggs etc without having the faintest idea that the church IS involved....... :-D



Easter is my favourite Christian festival but I wasn't offended by your post after all, it wasn't 'eggsactly' news to me.....those facts have been around for yonks and more. You missed out the bit about the Nicene Creed too.....tuts! ;-)



I occasionally get offended when someone mocks something which is very important to me but, hey ho, I realise I am a fairly lone voice on these boards........but I am a happy little 'bunny' :-D




Anyway, sorry I can't invite you to that long promised lunch on Friday at church, but something else has taken it's place...



.......now, I wonder what that could be???


I just know I will be there though........ :-D



Cx

nice one Mildred - incinerated sausages not nice!!!

I feel like reporting the thread myself now lol ;-)

now then, close the other eye?

:-D

Roy

I was going to cook sausages tonight, I've gone off that idea now :-0

covers eyes in that case porkie pie lol ;-)

I now see why it was RR'd some one obviously took offense to seeing Eldrick running naked round the garden and jumping over log fires,

But I do that when ever i have had one toooo many ;-)

Roy

In the interests of balance ( I googled Appolonius as I don't remember hearing about him before) there are some interesting points made here :-D

http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/apollonius.html

nice to see thei thread reinstated so i can now read it my self

have now read opening post - who on earth got their knickers in a twist over that? very informative

No magic wand, just dropped a few things in the cauldron :-D :-D

When I was young Easter was a time for new clothes, I always had new Clarkes sandals and can remember now how it felt to wear them instead of hard shoes.

Yes its found its way home, stuffed full of chocolate & smelling of bunny :-D


For me Easter symbolises new beginnings, spring arriving along with the various baby animals due around this time.

In fact, 13 years ago on the 5th, I gave birth to my own Easter bunny on the Easter Monday. So Easter is special to me for that reason only. <3

Pleased to see the opening post has been restored. :-D

You must have a magic wand!