Quote: (04-28-2019 01:36 PM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
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Quote: (04-28-2019 04:03 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
The first association of Easter with Bunnies and Eggs came from Protestants, becoming widespread in the 19th century. It's almost like they wanted to obscure the true meaning of the season.
Right, the same people responsible for bringing the Bible to the masses (at the risk of their own lives) wanted to obscure the Bible's meaning. Although no one knows for sure, it was probably a cute tradition that was taken over by commercial interests. After all, if a bunny could deliver eggs (after everyone abstained from eggs during Lent), then the bunny certainly could deliver a great deal of expensive chocolate and candy. It is similar to what happened with Santa Claus and Christmas, which turned a kindly Saint into a commercial shill.
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According to some sources, the Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700s with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Their children made nests in which this creature could lay its colored eggs. Eventually, the custom spread across the U.S. and the fabled rabbit’s Easter morning deliveries expanded to include chocolate and other types of candy and gifts, while decorated baskets replaced nests.
http://time.com/3767518/easter-bunny-origins-history/
Do you mean the Bible with the Jewish version of the old testament that cut out parts about Christ and prayer? That was distributed all over the continent by Jews? Which was used to foment rebellion and encourage Protestants to kill Christians? The group that fell for the Scofield Bible (also made by Jews) and now worship Israel? That group of 'Bible printers'?
*sigh* Forgive my terseness, but I haven't had my morning coffee yet. Protestants have been tearing apart Christendom for 400 years, and Jewish rule of our society is a direct product of that.
I think that an omnipotent God who wishes to get His message to mankind is just a bit smarter than Jews, Protestants, Catholics -- or anyone else who stands in His way.
Not only that, but the Bible clearly shows that God uses evil forces to do His will. When Israel misbehaved, God repeatedly used the forces of foreign lands to punish Israel and to get its people to repent. At the end of the day (after each occurrence), God punished Israel and its "stiff-necked people" as well as the evil forces that He used to punish Israel.
As another non-biblical example, when the Romans and Jews crucified Christ, God used the Romans to destroy the temple, to sack and destroy Jerusalem, and to disperse the Jews. In the fullness of time, He also destroyed the Romans as a people (the Italians are not Romans; not even close).
So, an omnipotent God who wishes to get His message to mankind will do so (if that is His will) -- and anyone exercising their free will to get in His way (whether Jews, Protestants, Catholics, or otherwise) will eventually reap a just punishment.
Your post leads nowhere. Yes, God is allowing Islam to invade our lands because we've become unrighteous. Yes, God allowed Communism to take over Russia because we ignored Fatima. Yes, God allowed Martin Luther his heresies because the Catholic Church had become corrupt. What's your point? Shrug our shoulders, and accommodate the evil in our midst?