"Diana" <dianaiad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hey, don't go yelling at me!
I'm not yelling at you, just the third person "you".
Can't we yuck it up a bit at the expense of those who make a mockery of
the
Church?
Otherwise I will have to drink myself into a stu**** to cope....
> The church I go to doesn't have a cross in or around it. Our Easter
> services don't involve eggs or a bunnies (though I imagine that, just as
I
> did when I was a child, and as I did for my own children, there were
> Easter baskets and egg dying and all that sort of stuff done at home),
and
> our parties are reserved for NEXT week.
As a kid I thought it was a ball chasing around colored eggs - when doing
it
I didn't associate it with the fertility goddesses of ancient lore. I
would think that as long as colored eggs and the Christian church aren't
associated there is no harm or foul.
> So you guys might want to give people a break here.
You missed the action from years past. I think that we post on here maybe
1% as much as we used to. Found other things to do I guess. So in that
regard, everyone is getting a break.
> Especially about symbols. Yes, most of the symbols that Christians use
> today have pagan origins, from the bunny to the eggs to "Easter" itself.
> That doesn't matter; a symbol only has the meaning that the *user*
assigns
> to it. So it doesn't matter what the egg USED to mean.
Yeah, symbols like, I don't know, the OT ceremonies, feasts and
sacrifices.
Symbols don't mean anything :(
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