Jesus. Because believing in the Easter Bunny is just silly.
So. Easter. I wasn’t going to bother writing about it but here I am. The idiocy is so thick in the air I just can’t help myself.
Easter. What is it?
It’s a mid-spring pagan festival co-opted by Christianity, pretty much like every other Christian holiday and ritual. Yea, Christians, followers of the most unoriginal creator of the universe imaginable, might (or might not) be surprised to know that the whole death and resurrection thing is in fact quite a bit older than the badly recorded travesty that they’re fawning over this weekend – where I am forced to see it. And be reminded of just how much ridiculousness people actually claim to believe. (Edit: check out Easter isn’t a Christian holiday either at Atheism Resource)
So, the plagiarism aside, what’s Christian Easter about? Let me tell you.
Easter is the celebration of the torture, execution, temporary ‘death’ and resurrection of the human incarnation of the creator of the universe. The omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent creator of the universe, God if you will, needed to have himself tortured and temporarily killed by his errant creations so that he could be convinced to create a loop-hole in the rules he created himself so that he could be convinced to forgive his creations for being the way he created them, having known how they would turn out before he created them, so that he wouldn’t be forced by himself to torture them for eternity.
Seriously. It’s THAT ludicrous. I have some questions:
- God is omnipotent – why didn’t he just forgive people without having himself tortured and temporarily killed?
- God is omniscient – if he knows everything to be known, he knows he’s going to be resurrected less than 72 hours later. How is that a sacrifice? It’s not even an inconvenience for an almighty super being.
- God is omnibenevolent - why does he torture people for eternity?
- God is omnipotent – why not just unmake Satan?
- God is omniscient – if he knows a person is going to be bad before he creates them and that he will be torturing them for eternity… how is that unlike breeding cats for the sole purpose of burning them alive?
Dear merciful Christ, why are people so incredibly stupid? But thanks for the public holidays, appreciate it.
Always! Be awesome.
If you apply the omnis to any divine action in the Bible, you can’t help but say “y’know, God, there’s an easier way to go about this.”
I just wrote about the omnis myself. They are contradictory in so many ways.
I was just reading your post at: http://deityshmeity.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/omnistupid.html
It’s good stuff!
Thanks for checking it out.
To be honest I kept on thinking about writing a post for Easter………….but somehow the enthusiasm kept leaving me……
At least I can actually see rabbits in the fields, maybe they have some underground chocolate factory warren thing going on??
I had the same problem until I read some idiocy sent to me this morning.
Also, I never did get the connection between rabbits, eggs and chocolate…
My money is on a global conspiracy of large chocolate egg laying rabbits controlling the world through psychic waves transmitted from their ears while using the Illuminati as a front organisation for their nefarious world domination schemes.
I figure that’s about as likely as the Christian story anyway.
This is another good article:
http://ffrf.org/publications/freethought-today/articles/The-Other-Easters/
Because it shows how pretty much the whole Christian religion is a Frankencult, made from mixing a whole bunch of pagan beliefs together.
The egg thing is (according to this anyway), in relation to solstice celebration
“The word Easter came from the Saxon Mother Goddess Eostre, in her fertile springtime aspect. Her name had many other forms throughout the ancient world: Ostara, Astraea, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Esther. At the pagan festivals of Eostre, people gave gifts of eggs, symbolizing new life, and worshiped the Moon Hare, a symbol of animal fertility. Despite the church’s later condemnations of these pagan devilments, they remained to be passed down to us as the Easter egg and the Easter bunny. Without admitting it, the church took over not only the holiday’s pagan name, but also the pagan way of determining its date, according to the first full moon after the spring equinox.”
Lots of other nice gems like this in that article.
Ha, yea, awesome post that one.
It’s just crazy how Christianity has stolen, copied and repurposed other beliefs, holidays and rituals and the sheeple don’t even realise this.
There was a point where I thought if there was something… you know, profound in the Bible, perhaps that would go some way towards proving their point.
Since the Bible is pretty much devoid of profound, perhaps the religionuts could just point to one single thing that’s original.
I mean surely, SURELY the creator of the universe could come up with just one freaking original idea to put down on paper? Just one?
Even the golden rule, possibly the only useful thing in the entire book, isn’t original since the idea had been around for thousands of years before JC arrived.
Just one original thing in the Bible. Show me it.
You are going to get extra burning time for that post, heh heh
Heh, infinity plus bonus time?
You are a complete and utter moron.
Ah thanks for that. Not that you’re going to be reading this on account of your fake email, fake link and fake name.
I’d have loved it if you pointed out all of the things I got wrong. Seriously, nothing would have made me happier.
On the other hand, “You are a complete and utter moron” is about as strong as a religionut argument gets after all.
You actual idiot.
What joy to read your comments!
Nice to see someone using logic in these days of ‘make-believe’ and empty hollow words…
Thanks for your thoughts…
Herman