"Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Diana" <dianaiad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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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 :(
Excuse me...but since when does "a symbol only has the meaning that the
user assigns to it" equal "symbols don't mean anything?" If symbols had
no
meaning, one can't change them. Change in meaning only happens if there is
a
meaning to change.
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