So some of you may have guessed I have a huge problem with the religious right, but in truth I have a problem with ALL Religious fundamentalists or extremists. I don’t give a fuck if they are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or Jedi Knights. I think all organized religions are just like a couple of guys standing around trying to see who has the bigger cock. Mind you Christians give me the most enjoyment so I will continue my assault on them.

For the record I am a Pagan and here is the Oxford English dictionaries listing for the word Pagan.

pagan

  • noun a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.

  • adjective relating to pagans or their beliefs.

  — DERIVATIVES paganism noun.

  — ORIGIN Latin paganus ‘rustic’, later ‘civilian’ (i.e. a person who was not a ‘soldier’ in Christ’s army).

So I am not a Jew, Christian, or Muslim. There fore by default that makes me Pagan. If you want to have some fun reads go to the 700 club’s website and type in PAGAN see what you get. The will tell you all about how it is evil and demonic. You will see videos of how people were “Witches” or “Wicca” (by the way Wicca stands for We Incompetents Can’t Comprehend Anything)

On the same token if you type in Halloween on that site you will find stories like this one. http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/prophetic-insight/23723-the-danger-of-celebrating-halloween?showall=1

I am going to post some of the more asinine comments this Twatwaffle has said in that article. Things Like;

• The word “holiday” means “holy day.” But there is nothing holy about Halloween. The root word of Halloween is “hallow,” which means “holy, consecrated and set apart for service.” If this holiday is hallowed, whose service is it set apart for? The answer to that question is very easy—Lucifer’s!
• For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.
• Halloween is much more than a holiday filled with fun and tricks or treats. It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.
• Another abomination that goes on behind the scenes of Halloween is necromancy, or communication with the dead. Séances and contacting spirit guides are very popular on Halloween, so there is a lot of darkness lurking in the air.

So by this stupid cunts rational if you pray to Jesus you are engaging in Necromancy because the bible states that Jesus died upon the cross. In the same book of stories Jesus practices Necromancy by raising Lazarus from the dead. Indeed a dark and evil thing to be done in the name of any god. I also Love the fact that she thinks Dracula, werewolves and witches on brooms “actually exist”

And what ever happened to the parts of the bible that say “Love thy neighbour”, or “Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged?”

They don’t limit themselves to Halloween but they do admit that Christianity is full of LIARS.

• The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. They did so, however, in a clandestine manner.

Back to Oxford Dictionary for the word “Clandestine”

clandestine

/klandestin/

  • adjective surreptitious or secretive.

  — DERIVATIVES clandestinely adverb clandestinity noun.

  — ORIGIN Latin clandestinus, from clam ‘secretly’.

As to the Origins of Easter They have this to say;

• The Date of Easter
  Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by Emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox, or first day of spring. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25. Its date is tied to the lunar cycle.

Ok so now on To the big one Christmas. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus’ birth.  The earliest gospel – St. Mark’s, written about 65 CE – begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus.  This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in or knowledge of Jesus’ birthdate.

The year of Jesus birth was determined by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk, “abbot of a Roman monastery.  His calculation went as follows:

• In the Roman, pre-Christian era, years were counted from ab urbe condita (“the founding of the City” [Rome]).  Thus 1 AUC signifies the year Rome was founded, 5 AUC signifies the 5^th year of Rome’s reign, etc.
• Dionysius received a tradition that the Roman emperor Augustus reigned 43 years, and was followed by the emperor Tiberius.
• Luke 3:1, 23 indicates that when Jesus turned 30 years old, it was the 15^th year of Tiberius reign.
• If Jesus was 30 years old in Tiberius’ reign, then he lived 15 years under Augustus (placing Jesus birth in Augustus’ 28^th year of reign).
• Augustus took power in 727 AUC.  Therefore, Dionysius put Jesus birth in 754 AUC.
• However, Luke 1:5 places Jesus’ birth in the days of Herod, and Herod died in 750 AUC – four years before the year in which Dionysius places Jesus birth.

The DePascha Computus, an anonymous document believed to have been written in North Africa around 243 CE, placed Jesus birth on March 28.  Clement, a bishop of Alexandria (d. ca. 215 CE), thought Jesus was born on November 18.  Based on historical records, Fitzmyer guesses that Jesus birth occurred on September 11, 3 BCE.

So now you ask, How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25? Good fucking Question.

• Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25.  During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration.  The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.”  Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week.  At the festival’s conclusion, December 25^th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.
• The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time.  In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs: widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season as Ginger Bread People).
• In the 4^th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it.  Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25^th, to be Jesus’ birthday.
• Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia.  As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.”  The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.
• The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that “the early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that Christ was born in that Month, but because the Heathens’ Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into Christian ones.” Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681 However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians.
• Some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were intentionally revived by the Catholic Church in 1466 when Pope Paul II, for the amusement of his Roman citizens, forced Jews to race naked through the streets of the city.  An eyewitness account reports, “Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators.  They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily.”
• As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18^th and 19^th centuries CE, rabbis of the ghetto in Rome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the city streets to the jeers of the crowd, pelted by a variety of missiles. When the Jewish community of Rome sent a petition in1836 to Pope Gregory XVI begging him to stop the annual Saturnalia abuse of the Jewish community, he responded, “It is not opportune to make any innovation.” On December 25, 1881, Christian leaders whipped the Polish masses into Antisemitic frenzies that led to riots across the country.  In Warsaw 12 Jews were brutally murdered, huge numbers maimed, and many Jewish women were raped.  Two million rubles worth of property was destroyed.

SO the next Time Pat Robertson or some other Christian FUCK starts telling you how Great God and Jesus were  and how they spread LOVE and Peace through the world, send them to me. I will set the fucking record straight. And the next Time some one wishes me Merry Christmas I think I might punch them in the Face.

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Until Next Time
I remain

The Cranky Old Bastard.