8 Comments
User's avatar
⭠ Return to thread
WP William's avatar

So it is that pastel and colorful eggs and candies are to be the New Inclusive Easter symbols; Trans-Visibility Day to be held each Easter Sunday starting this year. Perhaps killing a bunny and reading entrails would be appropriate in the pagan-White House. Christians co-opted the festivals with Christ anyway, so the pagans want it back apparently; maybe "the Church" should go back to the Jewish lunar calendar and divorce itself from the Neo-Pagans who're reasserting themselves through perverted gender-blender false religion?

Expand full comment
Northwoods's avatar

Agree WP! The majority of Christians have no idea on why or how holidays (derived from the words Holy Days) such as Christmas and Easter were 'established' by the 'church'. Easter is full of pagan symbols, what do rabbits and eggs to give two examples, have to do with the death, burial and resurrection of Christ? NOTHING! They are FERTILITY idols!

Why did 'the Church' separate the Resurrection of Christ from the TRULY symbolic and several thousand year old tradition of Passover? The Passover tells the story of our redemption through Christ and is FULL of symbolism to this day.

As for Christmas one of the most common symbols seen today is the 'Christmas Tree' but read this summary of its roots: The Asherah tree, a symbol of fertility in ancient times, was worshipped by many civilizations in the Middle East. The Canaanites and Phoenicians viewed the tree as a symbol of male fertility, while wreaths were always made in a circle to represent female fertility.4 The last reference to Asherah worship in the Bible is 2 Kings 23, during the reign of Josiah (r. 640 to 609 BCE). Christmas trees became popular in Europe starting in Germany in the 1500s, and there is no historical or cultural connection to the practices within Judah.12 The Asherah poles, or Judean pillar-figurines, have no historical connection to Christmas trees.3 The modern-day Christmas tree finds its origin in the Asherah tree or pole, which is condemned over 40 times by God in the Bible.

I encourage my brothers and sisters in Christ to look up the true roots of Christmas and Easter. Be aware of the deception, it has been going on for over a thousand years.

Expand full comment
MayBella82's avatar

Most people don’t understand Passover enough to know how it was woven into the crucifixion. They don’t know what Jesus meant when he said “I thirst” or “it is finished”…. that both had to do with Passover.

Expand full comment
WP William's avatar

I still like the idea of the sheet full of unclean things being sanctified and made clean by the Lord so that all depraved things can be redeemed and manifested for Holy use and function. It's a stretch to give sanction to all the syncretism of festivals and other religions into The Way of Christ-Abiders, but i like the 'idea' of taking what was meant to deceive us and lead us astray and then USING those things to glorify a Holy Creator. With being Spirit-led, Christ-minded, with faithful trust and loyalty, being sanctified and Holy; the most debased unclean person, disease, location and tradition may be transformed; that being said, have nothing whatever to do with wickedness and evil-doing. In All things give glory and praise to the One God.

Expand full comment
ViaVeritasVita's avatar

My 17th C New England ancestors forbade the "celebration" of Christmas.

Expand full comment
Peter GL's avatar

the Orthodox Christians only use red eggs. They symbolize the Christ's blood that dripped on the stones below the Cross. All other colors are purely decorative

Expand full comment
Bryan Dair's avatar

That sounds like some sort of macabre death cult.

Expand full comment
ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Read yesterday (on Patrick?) that Cadbury's Easter eggs are now "Gesture eggs"--and at a whopping pricepoint.

Expand full comment