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The Last Doctor wrote on 6/4/24 7:46 pm:
> 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?”
> 
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