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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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For that is what "Oester" is all about. A pagan fertility rite appropriated by the christian church.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Wow! And I thought that it was something to do with the Christian God being killed and then brought back to life. How could I have got it so wrong? 
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Actually Christ was a Jew.
He also was allegedly the SON of God..... Not God.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Watever the Romans and the Jews did back then to this guy that was Mary's son by some other guy than Yussuf, the festival itself is a pagan fertility festival.
Like the festival of Christmas. the established church grabbed it and turned it to its own ends.
The Romans, of course, embraced christianity as a way of controlling their empire, expecially in the Middle East, since they viewed it as a far more controlling religion than the others that were knocking around at the time.
It seems they also adopted it themselves, hence the Pope.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Found this bit on google:
"Christianity adopted many of the rituals and customs of the Pagan's, Druids and Witches, Yule becoming Christmas, Oester becoming Easter, and so on until all of the pagan religions festivals where incorporated into the Christian tradition, as Christianity suppressed the native religion. Some may think this strange however this is quite normal for any religion attempting to conquer another. The conquering religion will incorporate some of the beliefs, festivals or deities or the conquered religion, branding the rest as evil."
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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