Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel65 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: [OT] The dumb and the guilty (Was Re: How many ....) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 20:58:19 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <199e94ddd32456be8b7d600a5058347b@dizum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 09:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8b4ed65886026afc2da4ab636ba6876f"; logging-data="2129021"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18YECpzW7Ij97eDOY+hSUaH4/UmR92cbz8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HMELSj1vDJtqhX2o0mcKMi3lHWM= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3844 The Last Doctor wrote on 6/4/24 7:46 pm: > The Last Doctor wrote: >> solar penguin wrote: >>> Idlehands wrote: >>>> On 2024-04-05 10:54 a.m., solar penguin wrote: >>>>> The Doctor 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?” > Oh!! Look out, Mike, you've probably just gone waaaay down to the bottom of the asswipe's Christmas List!! ;-P Does the asswipe even believe in Christmas?? Probably NOT!! -- Daniel