Happy Easter?

In most countries in Europe, the name for Easter is derived from the Jewish festival of Passover. "So in Greek the feast is called Pascha, in Italian Pasqua, in Danish it is Paaske, and in French it is Paques," Professor Cusack said.

But in English-speaking countries, and in Germany, Easter takes its name from a pagan goddess from Anglo-Saxon England who was described in a book by the eighth-century English monk Bede. "Eostre was a goddess of spring or renewal and that's why her feast is attached to the vernal equinox," Professor Cusack said. So sure. Happy Easter. Or whatever trips your trigger. Or floats your boat. Have a nice day.

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Religion Edition

 

Have a nice day. 

Keep safe and warm out there, y'all.

Quotes of the Day -- Sunday Edition

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
― Woody Allen

"There is a tremendous enjoyment in having shaken off the silly, absurdly subjective rules, laws, "commandments" of religion, organized religion. It frees you to enjoy the world and life and people and to learn and love and live and grow."

--Me

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

And yes, folks, I Googled it. He really did say this.

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Religion and Its Evolution

Face it, accept it or not.

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

"Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality." 

--Gora

On That King James Version of the Bible

Food for thought on a Sunday morning.

Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

On Sunday

And the New York Times.

Yeah.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

The Reason for the Season

Dear Believer

An open letter to all believers across the planet. So simple, so clear, so intelligent.

So true.



So true.

Enjoy your day, y'all.

Thought for the Day -- Sunday Edition

Ow.

Quote of the Day--On Where We're Headed?

Very insightful statement/quote. Is this not, possibly, what we're becoming, if not what we've become?

Happy Easter

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Quote of the day

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." --Bertrand Russell

Friday, 13th

So the very first Friday the 13th happens in the first month of the new year. Whaddya' think? Does that make the year lucky? Unlucky? Means nothing at all?

Those crazy Catholics crack me up

I mean, if they aren't busy sexually abusing children in their schools or enabling others--mostly church hierarchy to do said same, Catholics can be one great source of humor. I didn't see this last Fall when it came out but it seems the Vatican came out against a Hollywood movie on Vampires, of all things: The Vatican vs. 'New Moon'

The Catholic Church objects to the newest "Twilight" film This is the part that really made me laugh: "Ahead of the weekend's blockbuster opening for the teen vampire fantasy Twilight: New Moon, a Vatican official condemned the movie as a 'deviant moral vacuum.'" I mean, come on, it's a movie, from Hollywood, naturally, that's about vampires. How seriously can it be taken? Of course, this complaint is from the same group that not only believes in exorcists and exorcisms but keeps a practicing, "official" exorcist on staff. Come to think of it, if they believe in exorcisms as real, it's easy to see how they just might take turning into a wolf once a month literally, too. No wonder they got they're panties in such a twist. Link: http://theweek.com/article/index/103245/the-vatican-vs-new-moon

And were supposed to save these people?

Check this out--a story out today on Afghanis, the people we're supposed to be "saving", somehow: Cursed number "39" haunts Afghan car owners KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's booming car sales industry has been thrown into chaos by a growing aversion to the number "39," which almost overnight has become an unlikely synonym for pimp and a mark of shame in this deeply conservative country. Drivers of cars with number plates containing 39, bought before the once-harmless double digits took on their new meaning, are mocked and taunted across Kabul. "Now even little kids say 'look, there goes the 39'. This car is a bad luck, I can't take my family out in it," said Mohammad Ashraf who works for a United Nations project. Other "39" owners flew into a rage or refused to speak when asked whether their car was a burden. No one is quite sure why the number became so contaminated so fast, but Kabul gossip blames a pimp in neighboring Iran, which shares a common language with much of Afghanistan. His flashy car had a 39 in its number plate, the story goes, so he was nicknamed "39" and the tag spread. So between they're superstition and downright ingnorance, and the fact that we're in Afghanistan , training these fighters--who defeated first Russia and are now defeating us--how to fight, it just makes no sense for us to stay in this country.

Party! My house! Sunday,May 22nd!

May 21, 2011 - Judgment Day!; October 21, 2011 - The End of the World

Judgment Day!

May 21, 2011

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.Revelation 9:5

Man, I love these people.

They know nothing of human history.  Of course, they'd say I know nothing of the Bible.

See you 

Link (because you really should see if for yourself):  http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/