Shouldn't we rename Easter Eggs as “Spring Spheres” to be PC? ;)
Posted on 04/23/2011 7:24:32 AM PDT by IbJensen
According to a new study, broadcast networks rave about Earth Day, but use Easter as an excuse to assault the Catholic Church.
The information collected by Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute (CMI) says nearly two-thirds of last year's Easter stories on ABC, CBS, and NBC were negative -- 91 percent of which were about the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church.
"Whether they're talking about outrages...scandals or crises, the fact that they turned Easter into a political talking point really offends me," admits CMI vice president Dan Gainor.
Even though the mainstream media appears not to understand Easter, he says news networks are not oblivious to what they are doing -- and journalists are not stupid people, he adds. Meanwhile, the same study shows that 100 percent of last year's Earth Day stories were positive.
"The media has gone so far as to basically worship 'Mother Nature.' They don't do as many stories, but they're all positive because it fits in with their touchy-feely Earth view," Gainor suggests. "The Bible tells me to be a good steward of the earth -- that's perfectly fine. Just don't take it so far that you forget who's supposed to be in charge."
But Gainor expects this year's coverage of Earth Day to increase and overshadow anything involving Good Friday, historically part of the Easter activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Yes, please do explain why you are using a pagan god's name to represent a Christian historical event? Why does the Church continue to break the 1st 2 commandments, not only during this celebration, but also during Advent & Epiphany? Why did you establish a world filled with pagan christians? Why did the Roman Catholic church break commandments 6,8,9 & 10 to gain rule over God's free people? I know the answer, do the readers here?
Shouldn't we rename Easter Eggs as “Spring Spheres” to be PC? ;)
Freepers, too.
It used to be thought that those were many breasts. Now the belief is those were actually bull testicles from sacrifices to her.
Breasts, eggs, figs, scrotum, or fruits. How does that hypothesis change the meaning -interpretatio graeca—?
It would probably help their ratings if instead of lecturing about how to be "green" they told us how we could get away without paying federal taxes.
My latest blog article:
As we come to the final days of Passover when we celebrate the Risen Christ and as I journey into a deeper study of the Christian faith, I find myself learning many eye opening truths that were never taught to me by my church leaders since youth. Truths that I did not teach my children & have not taught grandchildren because I failed to explore Christian doctrine outside of the church teachings.
For the 1st time in my life, I did not decorate for the Christmas season last December & for the 1st time, I am not decorating nor celebrating an Easter,”Estore”, season either. Why? Well, let’s start with the words of Martin Luther ...
“The world at the present time is sagaciously discussing how to quell the controversy and strife over doctrine and faith, and how to effect a compromise between the Church and the Papacy. Let the learned, the wise, it is said, bishops, emperor and princes, arbitrate. Each side can easily yield something, and it is better to concede some things which can be construed according to individual interpretation, than that so much persecution, bloodshed, war, and terrible, endless dissension and destruction be permitted.
“Here is lack of understanding, for understanding proves by the Word that such patchwork is not according to God’s will, but that doctrine, faith and worship must be preserved pure and unadulterated; there must be no mingling with human nonsense, human opinions or wisdom.”
“Estore” is a sun goddess worshipped by the pagans during the spring equinox. Bunnies & eggs are her signs of the fertility of mother earth. So the questions begged to be answered are, why did the Roman Catholic Papacy use the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity’s most important events? Why are Christians all over the globe today still celebrating this pagan event at home & in the Church when God rebuled these pagan religious traditions?
When Judeo-Christian monks worked mendaciously to gain followers by destroying pagan history and defaming the elder gods as demons, they had no weapons to deface the innocence of Eostre. Instead, they adopted her holiday and attempted to graft their values onto it. As the Judeo-Christians could offer nothing better, they simply claimed what existed as their own, changed the story slightly, and then tried to cover up and break people’s connection to the past.
“Ostara, Eostre seems therefore to have been a divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted to the resurrection-day of the christian’s God. - Jacob Grimm, “Teutonic Mythology”
2 Corinthians 6: 14-16 tells us ...
“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
The resurrection is about baptism, the immersion into the waters, as a sign of renewel & rebirth the life of Christ. The Bible no where speaks of bunnies & eggs. The Lord told us that many will come, but few will enter His gates ...
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it”
When the Pilgrims first settled in American, these pagan customs were banned. These pagan celebrations were deemed unlawful. The Christian Pilgrims had fled Europe for a land in which they could establish Christian communites based on the biblical teaching of Jesus Christ. They wished to shred every heresy & pagan doctrine forced upon them by the Roman Catholic Papacy & the English Church who had become nothing more than Religious Political & Military entities that ruled with an iron fist & who kept their people under oppression. In Constantine’s plight to rid the world of paganism, instead of banishing these pagan cutoms, he adopted them as Christian theocracy thinking that he could rid the worls of them by giving them a Christian definition that had no roots in Biblical Christianity. In 2 Corinthians 6: 17, we here this command...
” Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says the Lord.”AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you”
Now, what does this say of modern Christianity when these so-called Christians still cling to pagan traitiditions? It says that paganism is alive and well in the churches of all religions across the globe. The message it sends to me is that Christian churches must cling fast to pagan traditions in order to fill the pews so that they can keep their political & religious military alive. So that they can keep their monetary coffers filled to the brim.
If the Christian churches wished to truly celebrate Passover & Eternal Life through the resurrection of Christ, a more befitting celebration would be to usher in a season of global Baptism. A season of renewl & rebirth through cleansing. The washing away of the old so that one may arise with the new.
How glorious a sight would that be, to see thousands Baptized the same way they did during the times of Christ. This is what Passover & Pentecost is about. Isn’t it about time Christians start standing for the truth instead of continuing to partake in pagan customs? The Scriptures give us the rule in no uncertain terms in Acts 5: 29 ...
‘We must obey God rather than men’
So, as you gather tomorrow with family & friends to celebrate, ask yourselves ... what are you celebrating & how are you celebrating it?
http://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/the-hypocrisy-of-easter-celebrations/
Since the earliest of times people have sought meaning for life’s mysteries and in the process have found the need for worship. One of the earliest objects of worship for primitive man was the sun and in Ukraine, eggs were an integral part of the ceremonial rites of sun worship. The ancient Ukrainians determined that when an egg was broken the yolk represented the sun and the white the moon. Beeswax was considered as a magical ingredient of the writing process. This was entwined with the sun cult. The wax was made from honey; the honey was collected from flowers; flowers grew because of the sun. The egg became part of various ceremonies and took on a particular significance in the spring rituals. In winter Earth was dormant and appeared to have no life, just as the egg appeared to have no life. But as the seemingly dead egg hatched a living thing the earth too sprang to life in spring. Consequently, the egg became a symbol of life.
Good luck with your beliefs and traditions. [for the record I did not write all the stuff you just posted/referred to; nor am I going to click on your blog, thanks anyway.;)]
The Latin term for Easter is Pascha showing straight away that your blog article is wrong.
Secondly, you don't even seem to realise that the term Easter isn't set by the Church, rather
The historical record of Eostre is incredibly small: a single reference written by a Christian monk named Bede, writing after the supposed worship of Eostre has already vanished from England. he comments that the word Easter, in English, comes from Eostre, or perhaps from Eostremounth, the mouth in which Easter occursBede doesn't know anyone who worships Eostre, and no worshiper of Eostre has left any records of her at all. There is no mention of a specific holiday for Eostre, and no mention of rabbits or eggs. Most of the claims equating Eostre and Easter, therefore, are entirely made up. The only potential connection is the word Easter and the name Eostre, an issue that only exists in Germanic languages. In Romantic languages, the word for Easter is based on Pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover, which Jesus was celebrating at the time of his execution. And the Romantic language speakers have been celebrating Easter far longer than the English.
I would strongly advise that you do some research before publishing incorrect information like this
In fact there is no information in Eostre besides sparse references by Bede writing centuries after the last pagan beliefs had been wiped out. The rest of what your article says they believed is fiction.
I posted some simple, easily checked proofs that the blogmaster’s deductions are wrong. What is silly is that most could actually check it up before writing, but they don’t seem to want to check their facts before shooting off...
Thank you.
The fact that I asked my former Lutheran pastor about the origin of the use of Easter v. original Passover & the fact that he confirmed for me that what I had researched was true is ALL THE PROOF I need.
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