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Easter
He is risen indeed!
BAK 0.25tspgirl
Men
They think it’s all about them!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Yep
Think of how JC came about, God, without by your leave decides to (after the fact he has already done the deed) to say 'hey, Mary, you can have my kid, be honored!'
Well it's different for Gods I guess but then there are plenty of men who think they are God's gift, so there is that.
Then there is God and Jobe.
So hey, give men a few billion years and they might eventually grow up. ^_^
Some historians believe
Some historians believe Easter eggs came from Anglo-Saxon festivals in the spring to celebrate pagan goddess Eostre..
The church has always been good at smothering existing religions. I'm not anti Christian, only when they use passages from the bible to justify hate against LGBT. While missing out all the stuff about not eating shellfish and mixing cloth.
Leeanna
Amen
Amen indeed.
One of many differences of Buddhism, is ...
... that when our Main Guy died - he stayed dead!
Poof! Nibbana/Nirvana. Blown out like a candle flame. Not coming back. Forever off of the Wheel of Birth, Death, Rebirth ...
In Buddhism, Nirvana is "First Prize".
The "Grand Prize" is living a good enough life, of reaching Enlightenment, of acquiring enough merit to be eligible for Nirvana - and then >choosing< to stay here to help all other beings reach Enlightenment and get off that Wheel - this is the Way of a Bodhisattva.
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Just my understanding. No doubt Buddhist scholars will 'beat me up' for being wrong. And then beat each other up, for each other being wrong ...
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Forgot if it was Thich Nhat Hanh or the Dalai Lama who rated Jesus as a Bodhisattva.
Co-opting
Another example of christians co-opting existing "pagan" holidays for their own use.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-15/the-origins-of-easter...
They know they can survive
While That's True...
...the New Testament says that Jesus died and was resurrected during Passover, which starts two weeks after (usually) the same new moon that came to determine when Easter falls. (There's a "leap month" in the Jewish calendar -- which happens to precede the one (Nisan) that includes Passover -- that occasionally throws the two off by a month.)
So the early Christians had reason to celebrate then anyway.
(Whether the Jewish priests who wrote the relevant portion of the book of Exodus had any historical reason to connect the Passover to the Spring equinox is a different question. They might have been doing the same thing -- co-opting a Spring celebration of the new year -- that the Christians did later,)
Eric
But
The timing of Christian Easter was determined by the Dyat of Whitby in @ the 9th century. Yep GOC is responsible for your modern Easter! And people wonder why we cal it GOC.!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Really?
I always belived that the concilium in Nicäa set the date in 325, a few centuries earlier.
I live in Hertford. There was
I live in Hertford. There was a synod here in 673. ( the location is disputed though.)The Roman and the Celtic church had "issues" even after Whitby.
The Roman church was prepared to go to was over the date of Easter with the celtic church before Whitby.
That wasn't the only division.
East-West Schism, also called Schism of 1054, event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the Western church (led by Pope Leo IX). The mutual excommunications by the pope and the patriarch in 1054 became a watershed in church history. The excommunications were not lifted until 1965, when Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, following their historic meeting in Jerusalem in 1964, presided over simultaneous ceremonies that revoked the excommunication decrees.
Leeanna
If you are
Writing fiction, you can select any timetable you wish.
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