Keeping my mouth shut when idiocy comes from the mouths of my wife’s family in Connecticut.
I violate this tradition more often than i follow it.
TPC
April 14, 2017 9:16 am
None, my family scattered a long time ago.
My wife and I probably won’t start any real traditions until we have children of our own.
On the whole I feel like holidays are a gigantic waste of time.
Anonymous
April 14, 2017 9:41 am
For the largest part, as I’ve grown older I’ve pretty much dropped any practices that aren’t in accord with actual Christian teachings, that includes eggs, bunnies, all that sort of stuff that actually has no relation to Christ and what he taught and brought to us.
I don’t really know why I’ve become this way, it just sort of developed over time as I learned to study scripture more deeply. For others that like eggs and bunnies and such, I have no criticism since I don’t know that other practices should be avoided any more than that they should be done
I’m not seeing anything not in accord with scripture and Jesus being the Christ come in the Flesh in what I said, but would like to have it pointed out if I did.
Eggs and bunnies have zero to do with doctrinal Christian Easter, but everything to do with the religious traditions of all Indo-European peoples, and the not coincidentally named Eostre that takes place at the same time of year.
rhs jr
April 14, 2017 10:39 am
Easter should be the biggest holiday because it celebrates Jesus’ Resurrection which definitely happened at Passover. We have the Holy Shroud of Turin which is a physical relic and proof; also the millions of personal encounters and miracles of Jesus in the Spirit by people of all faiths; there is no other claimant to Deity like that. Unfortunately, I have no family traditions because feminism destroyed my mother when we were in school and my own wife while our kids were still in school just as the Cultural Communist wanted. The Cultural Communist and Illuminati are also busy trying to destroy all Christian faith and American traditions. “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8
Ed
April 14, 2017 11:09 am
The one that seemed to matter most to my parents, aunts and uncles was new Sunday clothes for the Easter service. That one was kind of a challenge to pull off for our big families with 7-10 kids each and small time jobs held by the Dads, but it came ahead of the other ones we also observed like dyeing a few dozen eggs, roasting a ham or some chickens and making the rest of the covered dishes for the big Easter family gathering after the church service.
We’d usually gather at the home of one uncle and aunt who had a non-working farm with a big pasture where we ate outdoors then had the egg hunt. Easter was the one time a year that we all saw each other because we were kind of scattered. In those days a trip of an hour’s drive was rare given the number of kids involved, but lots of kids is what made a family then. Loading seven kids into a 10 year old car that might not make it all the way was a bigger deal then than what it would be like now that the scattered family units can field as many vehicles as we need to for as long a drive as it would take.
What wealth we had was counted in the number of children we could bring together on Easter. I think we were more wealthy then than now. Now we could manage much longer trips to a gathering, but with only one or two kids per household the whole spirit of the thing is muted somewhat. It ain’t a big deal to buy new clothes for everyone nowadays, but there’s little chance of getting the whole bunch to even go to church together.
Anyways, those traditions are in the past. I guess if I had to list our Easter traditions that survive now, I’d just have to pass.
Good Friday and Easter? Isn’t that when Christ was crucified and buried in a cave and when he came out of the cave three days later, if he saw his shadow there would be six more weeks of winter?
Rojam
April 14, 2017 11:36 am
As I think about what took place during that first Good Friday and the crucifixion of Jesus, what he did for me and continues to do through the working of the Holy Spirrit, I can’t help but think about my sinful life, my shortcomings as a Christian husband, father and person and the confession we use in the liturgy.
O Almighty God, merciful Father,
I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess to You all my sins and iniquities, with which I have ever offended You and justly deserve Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them; and I pray You, of Your boundless mercy, and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter suffering and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being.
That confession is only part of the Easter story, however. Culminated, answered and forgiven in the rising on Easter morning and the eventual ascension of Jesus Christ to sit at the right hand of God, the father almighty.
I watch one of my favorite atheist documentaries or watch Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins destroy some religious zealot in a debate. I will have to take my 83 year old mom to Easter service, that is painful. I’ll try to go on an empty stomach.
Keeping my mouth shut when idiocy comes from the mouths of my wife’s family in Connecticut.
I violate this tradition more often than i follow it.
None, my family scattered a long time ago.
My wife and I probably won’t start any real traditions until we have children of our own.
On the whole I feel like holidays are a gigantic waste of time.
For the largest part, as I’ve grown older I’ve pretty much dropped any practices that aren’t in accord with actual Christian teachings, that includes eggs, bunnies, all that sort of stuff that actually has no relation to Christ and what he taught and brought to us.
I don’t really know why I’ve become this way, it just sort of developed over time as I learned to study scripture more deeply. For others that like eggs and bunnies and such, I have no criticism since I don’t know that other practices should be avoided any more than that they should be done
So you’re a hypocritical bible thumping neo-con. Got it.
Have you read Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount?
How do you square that with your blood thirsty desire for war around the globe?
The hypocrisy of you bible thumping idiots is breathtaking to behold.
Explain, and explain it in context with my post.
I’m not seeing anything not in accord with scripture and Jesus being the Christ come in the Flesh in what I said, but would like to have it pointed out if I did.
You explain how dropping bombs on people who have done nothing to you and threaten you in no way, adheres to the teaching of your savior Jesus Christ.
You can’t because you’re a hypocrite.
And that relates to a post about the Jesus, Easter, and the Scriptures how?
Still no answer. Just keep deflecting you warmongering hypocritical bible thumper.
Keep quoting fantasy stories about your beloved savior as you cheer on the murder of tens of thousands in the Middle East – Jesus’ birthplace.
The idiocy, it burns bright like the burning bush on Mount Sinai.
Eggs and bunnies have zero to do with doctrinal Christian Easter, but everything to do with the religious traditions of all Indo-European peoples, and the not coincidentally named Eostre that takes place at the same time of year.
Easter should be the biggest holiday because it celebrates Jesus’ Resurrection which definitely happened at Passover. We have the Holy Shroud of Turin which is a physical relic and proof; also the millions of personal encounters and miracles of Jesus in the Spirit by people of all faiths; there is no other claimant to Deity like that. Unfortunately, I have no family traditions because feminism destroyed my mother when we were in school and my own wife while our kids were still in school just as the Cultural Communist wanted. The Cultural Communist and Illuminati are also busy trying to destroy all Christian faith and American traditions. “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8
The one that seemed to matter most to my parents, aunts and uncles was new Sunday clothes for the Easter service. That one was kind of a challenge to pull off for our big families with 7-10 kids each and small time jobs held by the Dads, but it came ahead of the other ones we also observed like dyeing a few dozen eggs, roasting a ham or some chickens and making the rest of the covered dishes for the big Easter family gathering after the church service.
We’d usually gather at the home of one uncle and aunt who had a non-working farm with a big pasture where we ate outdoors then had the egg hunt. Easter was the one time a year that we all saw each other because we were kind of scattered. In those days a trip of an hour’s drive was rare given the number of kids involved, but lots of kids is what made a family then. Loading seven kids into a 10 year old car that might not make it all the way was a bigger deal then than what it would be like now that the scattered family units can field as many vehicles as we need to for as long a drive as it would take.
What wealth we had was counted in the number of children we could bring together on Easter. I think we were more wealthy then than now. Now we could manage much longer trips to a gathering, but with only one or two kids per household the whole spirit of the thing is muted somewhat. It ain’t a big deal to buy new clothes for everyone nowadays, but there’s little chance of getting the whole bunch to even go to church together.
Anyways, those traditions are in the past. I guess if I had to list our Easter traditions that survive now, I’d just have to pass.
A pleasure to read.
Good Friday and Easter? Isn’t that when Christ was crucified and buried in a cave and when he came out of the cave three days later, if he saw his shadow there would be six more weeks of winter?
As I think about what took place during that first Good Friday and the crucifixion of Jesus, what he did for me and continues to do through the working of the Holy Spirrit, I can’t help but think about my sinful life, my shortcomings as a Christian husband, father and person and the confession we use in the liturgy.
O Almighty God, merciful Father,
I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess to You all my sins and iniquities, with which I have ever offended You and justly deserve Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them; and I pray You, of Your boundless mercy, and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter suffering and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being.
That confession is only part of the Easter story, however. Culminated, answered and forgiven in the rising on Easter morning and the eventual ascension of Jesus Christ to sit at the right hand of God, the father almighty.
I watch one of my favorite atheist documentaries or watch Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins destroy some religious zealot in a debate. I will have to take my 83 year old mom to Easter service, that is painful. I’ll try to go on an empty stomach.
I’m an Atheist, but I do not appreciate anyone that gets their enjoyment at attempts to humiliate others.
I want you to know that I respect Christians; I do not respect the Pope (fucking POS, Anti-Christ, Anti-Humanity).
So, Fuck You Banana
Thank you, kokoda. I don’t usually answer those like her, but I’m glad you spoke up.
Dolly Parton
“He’s Alive”
Baked bunny stuffed with boiled eggs.
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