Re: [OT] The dumb and the guilty (Was Re: How many ....)

The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:

Idlehands <hidefromu@hushmail.com> wrote:
 

On 2024-04-05 10:54 a.m., solar penguin wrote:

The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

 
https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-and-eggs/
 

 
I didn’t ask you to cite some random guy’s blog, did I?
 
You said this was in the Bible, so give us a citation from the
Bible!
 

 
"History for Atheists"?
 
Funny place to be looking for Scripture passages, not to mention binky
calls atheists "insane".
 
Will he continue to dance or just launch another distraction post?
 

 
The funniest thing is that even though "History for Atheists" site
is a Christian blog pointing out where atheists are supposedly
wrong, it still agrees with me that Easter really has _nothing_ to
do with Ishtar!
 
Binky didn’t even bother to read the page before linking to it!
 

 
Of course not - it’s full of long words and sound scholarship. He just
looked at the first picture and assumed the text would support it, not
debunk it.
 
Down at the bottom is a nice discussion of the very Christian origins of
the Easter traditions of “bunnies and eggs”, and a good source for all the
Ishtar and Eostre cobblers - Hislop. A rabid 19th century Protestant
minister whose writings have been demonstrated to be total bollocks by
scholars since - but is still revered by Jehovah’s Witnesses and a few
other pseudo Christian cults. The other bits of nonsense discussed bear a
close similarity to the shite Dave keeps coming up with about the satanic
Catholic Church, and some of his other “quirks” - so perhaps his teachers
are true believers in all this “crap” (a direct quote from the linked
article).

Which I forgot to paste - “So Ishtar had nothing to do with Easter, Eostre
had little to do with the Christian festival other than its name in England
and Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny aren’t pagan either. So where did all
this crap come from?”

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