[referring to a post where students were allowed excused absences for pagan holidays]
pagans might as well have holidays now cause hell aint no picnic
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If just unbelief in one religion makes you go to hell, honestly, you're not going to convert many people, let alone not reclaim their holidays.
Eyeroll. Don't they have anything better to do than rail on Hell 24/7?
...wait. Never mind. Stupid question.
Hell probably isn't anything like a picnic though, he's right. It's probably more like a rave.
Speaking of pagan, where in the bible do you find pine trees, Santa Claus, painted eggs and easter bunnies?
pagans might as well have holidays now cause hell aint no picnic
Sometimes it is. This guy went to hell and was offered a choice of three punishments. Behind the first door, he saw people being chased by hornets and mosquitoes. He said "I don't want that". So he was shown the second door, where people were standing in the freezing rain butt naked. He said "boy, I sure don't want that, either". So he opened the third door and people were standing around up to their knees in poop, sipping cups of coffee. So he said "that's pretty disgusting, but it's better than the others". So he entered the room. Just as he was about to grab a cup of coffee, a demon with a pitchfork came in and said "OK, coffee break's over. Back on your heads!" (rim shot)
Dec 25 is winter solstice for nth hemisphere. On Dec 22 sun is at lowest point in the sky. Stays there for 3 days. During this it is in vicinity of the Crux (Southern cross). This was considered the death of the sun as the sun was at it's weakest.
On Dec 24/25 Sirius (brightest star in the east) aligns with the stars in Orion's belt (the Three kings) to point to the place where the sun rises on the morning of the 25th. On this day, the sun rises by 1 degree signalling it's return and the approaching summer.
So, on Dec 22 the sun died on the cross, lay dead for three days, was resurrected, and all this was foretold by 3 kings and a bright star in the east.
This is why Dec 25 was an important date for sun worshippers, like those of Horus and Mithra. Christianity stole the idea from Mithra when Constantine outlawed that religion and adopted Christianity as the favoured social control system.
Alternatively, if you're Christian, Satan is the reason why Dec 25 was a holy day for pagans. He retroactively engineered the ancient pagan religious similarities in order to trial modern Christian faith. Cunning bugger, eh? lol
*ahem*
They've had holidays longer than you have, icebear.
And y'know those Christmas and Easter things you guys love so much? Yea, those were originally pagan.
You may board the failbus now.
"'...hell aint no picnic'.
Certainly not.
For one thing, picnics actually exist."
Sorry, I thought that was so good that I would post it again.
approximate #352845
2007-Nov-05 09:58 AM
"How do you know how bad hell is? Posting from there?"
i am, its fucking hot in here let me tell you.
still i got a awsome tan!
Ramadan aint no picnic either - well not until after sunset and then it is a fantastic picnic!
Youn should try it sometime. You don't even have to be a Muslim - they will let you join in whoever you are and whatever you believe (or don't)!
Go on - try it! try understanding another religion and joining in. it doesn't hurt, it is educational, and it doesn't make you an instant convert.
The more you learn the better chance there is that you will be a nicer person and grow up!
Pagan religions have been around for much longer than Christianity. Don't you think that if there really was a hell, where pagans ended up because they where not True Christians(TM), some pagan spirits would have made it pack to the living pagans and warned them?
I believe that if there is a heaven and a hell afterwards, it's your actions and intentions that decides where we end up. Not our beliefs. If you treat others with kindness and respect, and think kindly of them, if you help those less fortunate than you and don't begrudge the more fortunate their fortune, if you abstain from bullying, hating, forcing and disrespecting your fellow humans, then you will get to heaven. If you do the oposite, whatever you say on your deathbed, you'll go to hell. But I also belive that it is not eternal, either of them. You must go on in positive way, even beyond the grave, and if you change to the positive way you can also move to heaven.
Or we are reborn and reborn till we aquire true serene-ness, and then we don't have to be reborn anymore.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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