Personally I do not celebrate easter but that mainly because of where it originated. I encourage you to find the truth and give me feedback on what you think
I'm surprised that so many people right here don't give a **** that they're paying homage to Satan and pagan dieties. This is why I can't stand people.
Anyway, I recognize that plenty of religions have a Big Bad to them but I'm assuming you're talking about the one as represented in the Abrahamic religions, I don't see what's so wrong about devil-worship and satanism anyway - the people seem pretty cool and even the ones that worship Satan himself are worshipping someone who killed a lot less than God did. As for the whole 'agan deities' thing - considering how much of the Abrahamic religions is borrowed from previous or contemporary religions it's hard to say how many of your practices were ones originally performed in the name of pagan deities anyway.
I don't see what's so wrong about devil-worship and satanism anyway
You worship Satan, you commit evil, you burn in Hell. Can't put it any simpler.
the people seem pretty cool and even the ones that worship Satan himself are worshipping someone who killed a lot less than God did.
1. If you worship absolute malevolence, you're a freak. 2. God is love and absolute justice. Satan is absolute malevolence. Satan is responsible for all evil and sins by sedition, therefore being greatly responsible for all sins. The sinner himself is the other who is responsible.
As for the whole 'agan deities' thing - considering how much of the Abrahamic religions is borrowed from previous or contemporary religions it's hard to say how many of your practices were ones originally performed in the name of pagan deities anyway.
I really have no idea what you're talking about.
Tell me, if someone unknowingly took part in Communion and took bread and wine, does that automatically mean they're worshipping God?
No, they're not. Worshipping God and worshipping Satan are completely different. You have to be conscious to worship God.
Got it. Thanks for the explanation. So... we start saying Easter has pagan root... but I noticed it depends on the place you live. Where I live we call it with an Hebrew name, not pagan, and don't have rabbit. So... may the same Easter have such different roots?
You worship Satan, you commit evil, you burn in Hell. Can't put it any simpler.
Care to prove this?
1. If you worship absolute malevolence, you're a freak. 2. God is love and absolute justice. Satan is absolute malevolence. Satan is responsible for all evil and sins by sedition, therefore being greatly responsible for all sins. The sinner himself is the other who is responsible.
1. I already told you that I don't believe in God so I can't worship absolute malevolence. 2. God killed millions of people in the Bible, slaughtered and murdered them, that's not love of any kind - especially not from someone who is supposedly 'all-powerful' and could have chosen a less bloody route. God was the one who left the tree with the forbidden fruit in easy reach and, considering his omnipresence and omnipotence, should have known that the snake would tempt them.
I really have no idea what you're talking about.
Parts of the way you worship, stories about God/Jesus and parts of the creation story were all borrowed from previous 'agan' religions.
No, they're not. Worshipping God and worshipping Satan are completely different. You have to be conscious to worship God.
So... may the same Easter have such different roots?
In fact, yes. It is just a slightly altered version.
Care to prove this?
Read the Bible. Everything is in there.
1. I already told you that I don't believe in God so I can't worship absolute malevolence.
That was about your comment about Satanists being cool.
2. God killed millions of people in the Bible, slaughtered and murdered them, that's not love of any kind - especially not from someone who is supposedly 'all-powerful' and could have chosen a less bloody route. God was the one who left the tree with the forbidden fruit in easy reach and, considering his omnipresence and omnipotence, should have known that the snake would tempt them.
God killed them because they were evil. They deserved to die. As for their manner of death, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Remember, God is absolute justice. The tree was very simple. The reason it was such a big deal, was because it was such a little deal. In the garden of Eden, there were perhaps thousands of trees. Adam and Eve really had to eat from that one tree? Now, God knew they were going to sin. Sin had to happen. It was absolutely inevitable. After sin is cured, at the Apocalypse, sin will be gone eternally.
Parts of the way you worship, stories about God/Jesus and parts of the creation story were all borrowed from previous 'agan' religions.
No. Judaism came first. Then Christianity, then Millerism, then the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Everything else is a Satanic perversion.
Care to prove these two assertions?
I'm sorry, I can't think of anything from the Bible or Spirit of Prophecy, and my head hurts right now.
I'd like objective and provable source material rather than just a 2000 year old, poorly-edited set of personal documents that don't cite any of their sources.
Oh and 'everything else is a Satanic perversion'? What about Islam?
Yes it is. It's symbolism is everywhere.
I'd like objective and provable source material rather than just a 2000 year old, poorly-edited set of personal documents that don't cite any of their sources.
Read the prophecies. None are false.
Satanism is humanism, that humans will sin, it's how not to be a **** without being a slave to a sadistic god like the christian one.
Here you go: [quote=Dictionary.com]Satanism -noun 1. the worship of Satan or the powers of evil. 2. a travesty of Christian rites in which Satan is worshiped. 3. diabolical or satanic disposition, behavior, or activity.[/quote]
Furthermore, Satan simply means enemy in hebrew, Pagan simply means nonchristian.
Of course I know that.
Easter was a pagan festive celebrating new life, for it fell near the spring equinox. Christians jacked the holiday to help convert the pagans.
Wouldn't it be just the opposite? Jesus was resurrected on Easter. Paganism took that and riddled it with Satanic symbols.
Considering that there were other, pagan deities before your particular sky fairy and the jeebmeister arrived on scene - I'd say that Christianity took what was already there are riddled it with Christian imagery.
