Happy easter

[Edge Guerrero]

[Luigi]

Happy Easter fellas!!!

[Professor Diet Butcher]

why do North Americans only get a 3 day weekend for Easter while the rest of the world (at least those which celebrates Easter) gets 4 days?

Happy Easter guys!

[Canuckster]

As posted over at EY

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nimrod was punished for his rebellion by Shem, one of the sons of Noah. He cut Nimrod's body into many pieces and sent it to the surrounding people as a warning against idolatry. Nimrod's wife Semiramis, the Queen of Babylon, collected all the parts of his body except for his penis. After Nimrods death his wife claims he did not die but was ascended into heaven and was now the sun god. She, now being the wife of the sun had to make herself a goddess. She told everyone that she had ascended in to the heavens and had came back down in a giant egg and landed in the Euphrates River. She then proceeded to turn a bird into an egg laying rabbit. She proclaimed herself as the queen of heaven. Her egg became known as Ishtar's egg, or as we call it today "Easter egg".

[greenseed]

happy easter zombie jesus day?
DB in BC (not sure of rest of Canaduh) we get a 4 day weekend

As posted over at EY

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nimrod was punished for his rebellion by Shem, one of the sons of Noah. He cut Nimrod's body into many pieces and sent it to the surrounding people as a warning against idolatry. Nimrod's wife Semiramis, the Queen of Babylon, collected all the parts of his body except for his penis. After Nimrods death his wife claims he did not die but was ascended into heaven and was now the sun god. She, now being the wife of the sun had to make herself a goddess. She told everyone that she had ascended in to the heavens and had came back down in a giant egg and landed in the Euphrates River. She then proceeded to turn a bird into an egg laying rabbit. She proclaimed herself as the queen of heaven. Her egg became known as Ishtar's egg, or as we call it today "Easter egg".

this sounds a helluva lot like Osiris Isis story doesn't it.

[Luigi]

happy easter zombie jesus day?
DB in BC (not sure of rest of Canaduh) we get a 4 day weekend

As posted over at EY

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nimrod was punished for his rebellion by Shem, one of the sons of Noah. He cut Nimrod's body into many pieces and sent it to the surrounding people as a warning against idolatry. Nimrod's wife Semiramis, the Queen of Babylon, collected all the parts of his body except for his penis. After Nimrods death his wife claims he did not die but was ascended into heaven and was now the sun god. She, now being the wife of the sun had to make herself a goddess. She told everyone that she had ascended in to the heavens and had came back down in a giant egg and landed in the Euphrates River. She then proceeded to turn a bird into an egg laying rabbit. She proclaimed herself as the queen of heaven. Her egg became known as Ishtar's egg, or as we call it today "Easter egg".

this sounds a helluva lot like Osiris Isis story doesn't it.

That was my initial reaction. A lot of Mediterranean mythology is like this and clearly influenced by other Mediterranean mythology. I suspect the immaculate conception is a fabricated edition to Christian since it was present in in other Mediterranean myths(Horus birth, Perseus birth), and absent in all accounts of Jesus' life except for the gospel of Mathew(which was written after the gospel of Mark, which doesnt mention the IC).

Canuckster do you know if there was a citation for that quote? Which of Jesephus' works does it come from? The easter etymology seems suspect, as the old English word for easter is Oestre/Oestren which is the name of a Germanic goddess. I tried googling the quote and I only ever found it on sites that seemed specifically devoted to Atheism. I found some blatantly false info on one of the sites so I am feeling skeptical about it.

[SRBrant]

As posted over at EY

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Nimrod was punished for his rebellion by Shem, one of the sons of Noah. He cut Nimrod's body into many pieces and sent it to the surrounding people as a warning against idolatry. Nimrod's wife Semiramis, the Queen of Babylon, collected all the parts of his body except for his penis. After Nimrods death his wife claims he did not die but was ascended into heaven and was now the sun god. She, now being the wife of the sun had to make herself a goddess. She told everyone that she had ascended in to the heavens and had came back down in a giant egg and landed in the Euphrates River. She then proceeded to turn a bird into an egg laying rabbit. She proclaimed herself as the queen of heaven. Her egg became known as Ishtar's egg, or as we call it today "Easter egg".

ALL HAIL SEMIRAMIS!

[Canuckster]

No citation, will likely spend some time following up later.

[Masato]

EY never posts citations or links to his quotes, its maddening

[Som-Pong]

lol just caught on to that? Yet all he does is copy n paste shit, (s)he's a Top Plagiarizer.