[Closed] Christian knowledge regarding Easter sought.

Friday - day one
Saturday - day two
Sunday - day three, the third day.

I guess.

"On the third day, he rose again, in accordance with the scriptures".

So where does Easter Monday fit in to this?

ohnohesback - Member

So where does Easter Monday fit in to this

It's a public/bank holiday ... 😛

IIRC, Monday its a legacy of the fact that the Catholic Church is a spin off of the original Christian church, who celebrated Monday as a day of renewal.

(2 years in a seminary.)

So where does Easter Monday fit in to this?

I don't think it does really, other than in the way that you get an extra bank holiday on Monday if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday.
But as Easter Day is always on a Sunday, you get Monday as a bank holiday.

It's a pagan festival that the church couldn't stamp out, so they rebranded it. Don't expect any logic, you won't find any.

Everyone used to have to work… there were no Bank Holidays, so Easter was celebrated on the only day off, Sunday, which was traditionally wasted thinking god for your horrible life every week anyway.

IMHO the poor maths is not the biggest problem with this story

Here you go- my memory isn't as bad as I thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday

It's a pagan festival that the church couldn't stamp out

I'm fairly sure they did stamp it out. Where do you live?

Summerisle?

[i]It's a pagan festival that the church couldn't stamp out[/i]

This, because to get to the date, you have to work out the first Sunday after the vernal equinox full moon, which doesn't at all sound like a pagan festival. No, no not at all... 🙄

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Don't forget about the star over Bethlehem.

I'm fairly sure they did stamp it out. Where do you live?

Please say Easter Island

I'm fairly sure they did stamp it out. Where do you live?

It's based in the cycle of the moon. Pagan.
Bunnies. Pagan symbolism.
Eggs. Pagan symbolism.
Hot cross buns. Pagan again.
There isn't anything even vaguely Christian in easter.

So the pagans are celebrating today? Wicked, where can I see these celebrations?

This explains it a bit more clearly..
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/jesus-died-to-give-us-two-bank-holidays-2014041785796

Everywhere. Not that they care it was Pagan, it's just chocolate day now. Nothing more pagan than stuffing your face.

BTW They must have had really good suntan oil in his times cos he always looks a bit pasty in the paintings...

I it's a pity I didn't notice this thread earlier as they were knocking on the door a while ago.... 🙂

IMHO the poor maths is not the biggest problem with this story

Ha ha excellent post.

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HTH.

So the pagans are celebrating today? Wicked, where can I see these celebrations

Nice.

So you didn't see any pagan celebrations slowman ..... not even dodgy looking people in a circle ? 🙁

Where did you go for your nice walk ?

ernie_lynch - Member
So the pagans are celebrating today? Wicked, where can I see these celebrations?

You're welcome round to our's anytime.

slowoldman - Member
Nice.

We had beef.
🙂

I celebrated Easter with a Pagan [ wiccan] at a Jewish familyies house [ passover Sedan]

Beat that one STW

PS its actually all true

It's a pagan festival ...etc etc.

What!? How come nobody ever mentioned this before! 😉

We were all way too busy discussing Clarkson and lane changing

And why, exactly, is a supposedly Christian 'festival' named after Eostra, a pagan goddess, who's earthly avatar is the hare, later changed to the rabbit, because it's 'safer' than the rather spooky hare.

why, exactly, is a supposedly Christian 'festival' named after Eostra, a pagan goddess

Because of the English monk Bede apparently.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-pagan-goddess-behind-the-holiday-of-easter/

[i]Why do only English speakers celebrate “Easter”? Most other peoples of the world call the holiday observed by Christians this Sunday by some variant of the word “Pascha.”

In almost every other international language, the holiday is called by some permutation of “Pesach,” the Hebrew word for the Passover holiday/sacrifice.[/i]

English arrogance suggests that an international religious feast celebrated across the globe was specially created to suit the English language, the existing religion, and local English seasons.

Bitter, critical and self-righteous. 😆

English arrogance. Etc etc.....

WGAS what it's called, its a four day weekend!

If you don't like it, go to work in protest?

What's causing the confusion, is that in Jesus's time Tuesday and Thursday came between Friday and Saturday

[quote=enfht opined]Bitter, critical and self-righteous.

Enough about you now what are your views on the topic 😛

Not just English that calls it Easter - German is Ostern.

English arrogance suggests that an international religious feast celebrated across the globe was specially created

Yay! Engurland, Engurland. And Deutschland, Deutschland.

Go us.

Good post, thank you OP. This thread has made a couple of things clearer.

I must admit that I have wondered about the three days and three nights part of it - although it doesn't really matter about the timescale, I guess. The message and the meaning is the most important thing and the Crucifiction and our redemption is the vital thing.

I was very upset by Woppit's thread title and I'm glad that there is another thread on here which is much more meaningful.

There are some pagan festivals that have been incorporated into the Christian calendar - Yuletide / Christmas, Eostre / Easter but this just makes it more interesting. God is the same God whatever we call him but we all worship in different ways and maybe at different times. It matters not, Christian or Islam or Buddhist or something else. God is God.

There is evidence of Bibilical events in history - I think it was Josephus who wrote about Christ in his writings - and there is evidence of the Flood in C Leonard Woolley's book about his excavations in Ur of the Chaldees. (Fantastic book by the way).

Julian - not a very good Christian but would like to be a better one.

There is evidence of Bibilical events in history - I think it was Josephus who wrote about Christ in his writings

What about Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, didn't they write something ?

OP - wasn't it Pontius Pilate who first said "oh no he's back"?

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Good point, and yes, of course.

I was thinking of accounts in writings outside of the Bible as there are some / many who would dispute Biblical accounts.

I don't believe there is any contemporaneous account of Jesus's life. The earliest is Paul about 80 years after he is said to have died. Josephus was 10 or so years after that. The greatest documenters of the day (the Romans) have no account of him at all, trial or otherwise.

Documented history is not on Christianity's side. Hence the importance of Faith.

TBH I've never heard of Josephus, who was he and why would he be a reliable source ?