The Real Meaning of Easter And The Irony

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I don't have to tell most of you because I am absolutely sure you already know all about Easter and the real reason it was celebrated in these civilizations that existed thousands of years ago and if I am mistaken, bring it to my attention in this thread and I will explain it but it would be redundant to go into a lengthy definition if you already know what Easter really means.

The main point of this post is to laugh at all the fundies who belly ache about Easter and call it out for being bad because it's a fertility/reproduction rite/festival and saying sex is the basest of human lusts and many of these folks have got at least six kids and are working on the seventh, plan to have as many kids as the wife's body can before it gives out and goes kaput. They don't seem to realize, if it were not for sex, they wouldn't have enough kids to fill a shoe. So why they are so angry and upset about sex is beyond me. If they hate sex so much, why don't they stop having it so often?

The ones that stereotypically have a lot of kids are Catholics and Catholics are pretty big into Easter or anything that is considered a holy day. Which denominations don't celebrate Easter?

Ana, the reason for the contradictions in Easter can be traced to the early days of the faith. In order to avoid persecution, early Christians had to incorporate pagan themes into their holy days. Pagans were the majority, and they viewed Christianity as a bastardized form of Judaism, and Jews were hated then as much as they are now.

Christmas was chosen to be on December 25 because that was the day that Mithraists celebrated "the birth of the invincible sun god", Mithras. In the third century AD Mithraism was so popular that the Christians wanted to steal some of their thunder, so the Christians recognized the birth of the Son of God. Note that instead of the "sun god" they celebrated the Son of God. Some parts of the Mithras legend were incorporated into Christmas.

As for Easter (originally "Eostre"), that incorporated a lot of stuff from Gallic, Hispanian (Spain), and Celtic pagan rites. Spain wasn't Christian until the 4th century AD. So, you have the bunnies and the colored eggs etc sharing space with the rather gory tale of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. The two are far enough apart that many Christians over the ages have not been comfortable with the paganism in celebrations of Easter. That is similar to Christmas, although it should be noted that modern Christmas takes a lot of stuff from quasi-Christian folk legends that evolved after Roman times.

Hey, here's an idea - let's have yet another thread where we bash people who think and believe differently than us, in order to make ourselves feel intellectually superior. We'll talk about how stupid their beliefs are and how much more intelligent we are for not thinking like that and everybody who reads it will see what intellectual giants we are and how we're as utterly bereft of tact and sensitivity as the compassionless robots Aspies are believed to be. Living down to our stereotype - boo-yah!

Let's throw in some hate and intolerance, too, so we can be the bullies this time.

I only laugh at the irony present in certain factions of Evangelicals. Irony usually causes me to laugh. It strikes my funny bone when people are ironic and this seems like one of the most major ironies of all because fertility is obviously very important to these people and to complain every year about Easter...

What's even more troubling is it's disputed Easter has a connection with Ishtar at all and even more disputed there's a connection to fertility, reproduction and sex. So, they are grasping at straws. It's almost like, they are just phishing for an excuse to bring up sex.

The real meaning of easter is to dress up in the creepiest possible bunny costumes to terrify and traumatize children.

All real holidays involve Candy!

It seems everyone of these threads about how stupid Christianity is always seems to be rantings I could care less about.

You're not only grasping at straws, your laughing at them too.