swimmerbabe11 said:
The Catholic Church and I have many disagreements.
If you mean literal easter eggs..no I love those.
if you just mean the idea of 'easter eggs' , not neccessarily..but I'd prefer them to be relevant. Marvel movies don't have easter eggs of looney tunes characters.
The uncomfy is darth vader and little crushed men...I'm not sure I understand why that is good or beneficial.
Glad to see you finally recognize (and disagree with) at least one form of paganism that's been incorporated into the Catholic Church.
Scientific American - "The Tradition of Eggs at Easter"Quote:
it is well known that under the Roman Empire, Christianity did indeed adopt the pagan rituals of conquered peoples in an effort to help convert them.
Catholic Catechism 1169 EasterQuote:
Easter is not simply one feast among others, but the "Feast of feasts,"
The English Easter comes to us most directly from the pagan German spring fertility goddess of Eostre. This is the same root to our word for female estrous leading to an egg which can be fertilized. This is strikingly similar to the ancient Mediterranean spring fertility goddess of Ishtar, even though there is no direct connection between Ishtar and Eoster. The connection might well be the lawless one himself who want's to turn mankind away from God's truth in His Word.
There are a great many other pagan influences in the Catholic Church there for the viewing to any honest person. I once debated with a staunch Catholic who insisted the Catholic Church had always incorporated pagan beliefs (just as the Scientific American says) and that we should too. At first I had no response to her. But later I came to at least respect her honesty about this being a true part of the Catholic Church. Most are dishonest and deny, deny, deny. However, honest as she may be, I was dumbfounded she could at the same time recognize the paganism in her biblically based religion and not see how that same bible universally condemns such inclusions.
Shalom