Doesnāt explain why loudmouth atheists acknowledge them and structure their year around them.
Christmas and Easter are religious celebrations.
Meaningless though. The Catholic Church fully acknowledges that, and itās irrelevant in the grand scheme.
Just like counties are an English creation, yet it doesnāt stop us from going full on full on roaster and cheering our county on when championship comes around.
They were always religious festivals. You are making the classic error of confusing atheism and paganism. Pagans (a term originated by the RCC) are religions other than the 3 Abrahamic religions. There are at least 4,000 religions in human history, the huge majority are pagan.
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Donāt bother, palā¦
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Thats what I said. Easter and Christmas should not be relevant to atheists but they are bizarrely happy to lap them up and enjoy.
Itās @chocolatemice and @fitzy you need to explain to.
No it isnāt that you said, you are trying to weasel out of it now but it isnāt working. Your use of the terms heathen, pagan and atheist interchangeably demonstrates you have no clue what the terms mean or their history. In simple terms, atheists do not believe in any human concept of god, while pagans and heathens believe in one of the other 4,000 gods other than the one you believe in.
What makes you think @ChocolateMice and @Fitzy are atheists?
Both these boys are atheist. Do you know otherwise?
Iāll let them answer for themselves, but I believe I saw @ChocolateMice deny he was an atheist in a post recently.
Both scoff at any reference to religion or a higher being.
There is no salvation for either.
Iām an agnostic Buddhist.
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+1.
All the good bits in Christianity are Buddhist which predates it by 6 centuries. Thatās why thereās such a contrast between the barbaric Old Testament and the lovey dovey of the New. Thereās some support for the idea that Jesus, if he existed, spent some of his missing 30 years in India where he picked up the his Buddhist ideas.
The high school chef lecturing us about our saviour.you couldnt make it up
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he is lost, he needs to let God into his heart
I shouldnāt laugh but heās just so like the Pharisees who favoured food over grace.
As he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and behold, all things are clean unto you.
But woe unto you, Pharisees! For ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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Jesus (if he existed) was in all likelihood a Pharisee rabbi. As a Jewish rabbi he had to have been either an Essene, a Pharisee or a Sadducee, otherwise he couldnāt have been a rabbi. He may have had disagreements with the Pharisee establishment, but his disagreements with the higher ups (the Sadducees) was what got him him killed. The cult of Christianity came long after his death, and was embellished with Greek (Pagan) myths to make it palatable to the Romans. Itās that simple really when you strip out the fairytales. The Jews know the truth, which is why Christians have spent 2000 years trying to erase them off the planet.
Jesus is the son of God
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
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John Paul ll was banging a wan for years apparentlyā¦ aboy the kid.
unreal, we are on the way back in England, we are taking over
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