Seattle Superintendents Open The Door To A Godless America?

[Archbob]

The worst part of it is that they are not really spheres.

 

[JollyRoger]

Yeah, we need descriptions that better match the object. For example, more like this:

The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. It derives its unflattering common name from the disagreeable odor generated

 

[Skwink]

I wonder what people would think if a Catholic school renamed Earth Day to God's Creation Day?

 

[amadeus]

I call BS.

BS as far as the eye can see.

 

[JollyRoger]

I am appalled that liberal states are deliberately destroying the time honored religious institutions through the use of underhanded tactics such as this to sidestep common place tradition.

MUNSON TOWNSHIP -- A Northeast Ohio community is taking the "Easter" out of the egg hunt.

As the White House prepares for its annual Easter Egg Roll -- a tradition dating back to 1878 -- some in the community of Munson Township are asking if it's alright in Washington, how could the word "Easter" offend someone in this small rural community?

Still, township trustees are opting to call this year's Easter weekend event "The Spring Egg Hunt."

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/183128/45/Geauga-County-Should-Easter-be-in-egg-hunt

Come on Ohio, you have become more librul than the White House.

 

[BuckeyeJim]

I swear you guys wait for small isolated incidents like these to get extremely offended.

I know right?

 

[JollyRoger]

We really need to put the Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility back into our egg hunts. Otherwise, the American Family Association will be deprived of having its celebration of unbridled procreation properly named.

http://www.cause-of-god.com/easter.html

As a result, pagan symbols have been so thoroughly embedded that they are now generally thought to be Christian in origin. An example is the Easter lily. Where is there biblical authority for its prevalence at Easter? Merrill Unger (Archeology and the Old Testament, pp. 173, 174) describes the Canaanite goddess “as a nude woman bestride a lion with a lily in one hand and a serpent in the other.” The lily “bespeaks the grace and sex appeal of the bearer” and the serpent “symbolizes her fecundity” (fertility).

If anyone thinks it is too great a leap from the pagan symbolism of the lily to its place at Easter, one need only investigate the name Easter. W. E. Vine writes, “The term Easter is not of Christian origin. It is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven” (Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, entry “Easter” loc. cit.). The Chaldean Semeramis, the wife of Nimrod, was the original impersonation of the “queen of heaven,” the goddess of spring. The Babylonians called her Ishtar. To the Canaanites she was known as Astarte. She is Venus of the Greeks, Aphrodite of the Romans, and Ashtoreth of the Zidonians. These all represent fertility and were worshipped in the spring as new life burst forth after the death grip of winter. Hastings Encyclopedia on Religious Ethics describes these ancient Easters as “spring feasts . . . marked with great sexual license” (p. 117).

In Anglo-Saxon culture Astarte was known as Eostre (the Saxon origin of the English word Easter), in whose honor the Druids held religious festivals in April, calling it Easter Month (Eostre-monath). This may be the reason for the careless insertion of the word Easter instead of Passover to translate pascha in Acts 12:4 in the King James Version.

Other objects associated with the modern celebration of Easter join the lily as suspect. The egg as a symbol of fertility is found universally in ancient cultures. The Egyptians, Persians, and Chinese all had customs of coloring eggs. Babylonian legend teaches that an egg of great size fell from heaven into the Euphrates River, where fishes rolled it onto the bank. There it was incubated by doves until it hatched out (who else?) the “queen of heaven.”

The Roman Church incorporated the egg as an emblem of Christ’s resurrection. Pope Paul V taught people to pray at Easter, “Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee this, thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance unto thy servants, eating it in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Again, where is the biblical authority to support such a notion?

The Easter bunny, actually a hare, was associated with the moon because of its nocturnal habits. The Egyptians called the hare, un, which means “to open”—to open spring at the vernal equinox. Un also means “period”—both lunar and human cycles, the hare having prolific fertility.

The modern Easter egg hunt can be traced back to pagan Germany. Children were told that if they were good, a white hare would steal into the house while they were asleep and put a number of beautifully colored eggs in odd corners of the house for them to find when they awoke. Again, what have hares and colored eggs to do with the risen Lord?

Lent is also of Babylonian origin. The English word Lent comes from the Saxon Lenct, meaning “spring.” It represents a period of mourning for Tammuz, the supposed reincarnation of Semeramis’ husband, Nimrod, whose death and reappearance was celebrated in the spring. Forty days of mourning preceded the one day of joy over the return of Tammuz. God condemned Israel’s partaking in this celebration: “And He said to me, ‘Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.’ So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz” (Ezek. 8:13-14, NKJV). How has Satan so cleverly corrupted the truth!

And what of hot cross buns? A sacrificial “cake” made with fine flour and honey was offered to the “queen of heaven” on Friday. It was called a “boun,” from which we get our word “bun.” “The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger” (Jeremiah 7:18, NKJV). “The women also said, ‘And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?’” (Jeremiah 44:19, NKJV).

Believers need to know that the early church did not celebrate a special day either to commemorate the Lord’s incarnation or His resurrection. Believers should also know that people did not widely celebrate Easter in America until after the Civil War (late 1800s) when there was a large immigration of European Catholics to this country.

Paul warns us, “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Eph. 5:11, NKJV). Again he writes: “What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. . . Therefore ‘Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean’” (2 Cor. 6:16, 17, NKJV). Jesus said, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God” (Luke 16:15, NKJV).

Frankly, I don't think we should indoctrinate our children to such rituals via the public school system.

 

[Cynovolans]

Which came first, the Easter Egg or the Spring Sphere?

This story has inspired me to think of better alternate names for easter eggs.

Spoiler :

1. Painted April Orbs
2. Springtime Prolate Spheroids
3. Past-Spring-Equinox-Celebratory Embryos!
4. There's candy in it but I wish allergy medicine was-eggs
5. Round Chocolate-filled spherical-shaped uhhhhhh wow this is hard uh sphericons?

 

[Aegis]

I dont know what you mean. I said eggs dont have anything to do with the Bible.

You correctly assessed that it has something to do with Paganism. Paganism is religious. The OP said that the school intended to remove religion out of the annual egg hunt. The OP didn't say which religion, though. Everyone just jumped to conclusion about it being over Christianity.

 

[Skwink]

Err nevermind this.

 

[Brian Shanahan]

I swear you guys wait for small isolated incidents like these to get extremely offended.

Nah they get the "reporters" at The Faily Heil, to invent the "incidents" out of thin air, and then get indignant over stuff that's not happening.

Only difference here is it's coming from Murdoch for World Dictator News.

 

[Aegis]

The worst part of it is that they are not really spheres.

lol, I missed this. And they call themselves a school.

 

[Ajidica]

Elementary school, which either means it is publicly funded Sunday School or White Guilt 101 with a remedial course in Racial Diversity.

 

[civ_king]

As I'm not a pagan I'm not offended by the fact they wont call them Easter eggs, but calling them Spring Spheres makes them sound stupid, better to no have them at all

 

[JollyRoger]

Scrambled or fried would be better.

 

[NickyJ]

Stupidity. Complete and utter stupidity. How can they possibly be called a school?

Somebody's a Christaphobe.

Yup.

 

[Formaldehyde]

You are right. It was "complete and utter stupidity" for that 16-year-old to want to bring Easter ornaments into a public school environment in the first place. And it was also stupid for the teacher and the principal to not simply tell her to find something more appropriate to do for her "project".

 

[JollyRoger]

What kind of school lets a 16 year old tempt 3rd graders with candy?

 

[Archbob]

lol, I missed this. And they call themselves a school.

They should at least call them "spring oblongated roundish objects".

 

[JollyRoger]

They should at least call them "spring oblongated roundish objects".

Or Spring Breakables. It seems the War on Easter starts earlier every year.