Easter Poll

[RB TexLa]

Poll question: Easter Poll

Who has attended an Easter Vigil tonight and feels a renewal of faith particularly in the bringing about of peace.

[JVS]

1. I went on Good Friday and go tomorrow.

[cynatnite]

2. Frankly, I don't get it....

I do believe Jesus was on this planet. But nowhere does he say we have to celebrate his rising. It doesn't say we have to go to church every sunday. Hell, Jesus never said we had to celebrate his birth.

I don't understand faith so it's pretty useless to me.

Oh, and the answer is no. It doesn't fit our beliefs.

[JVS]

3. It isn't a matter of "having to"

[cynatnite]

8. I guess I'll never understand it

It was never required by Jesus to go to church and yet, there are churches on just about every block with varying degrees of belief.

But I have little use for organized religion anyway so I'm not losing anything.

[JVS]

9. Maybe they are there because the people want to go, not that they...

think they have to go.

[cynatnite]

12. My fundie mother believe's it's a 'have to'...

in order to be a 'good christian'. It's the same for most of my family.

I don't doubt there are some that it's because they really want to, but most I have ever met it was 'have to' in order to be a 'good christian'.

[Patchuli]

20. It's a matter of obedience to the Word

which tells us to study the Scriptures, praise and be part of a church family. I go out of joy, belief and obedience. I do know that the Lord will love me either way but I would prefer to please Him. If your mother takes no joy out of her worship, then she's missing something. It's not just an obligation...

Happy Easter!

[Erika]

13. Mega complexes all wanting donations

to make them bigger. You are losing something. All their operations are tax exempt. We make up their taxes.

[Erika]

4. Christ was the Prince of Peace

The war mongers and W's administration is in direct opposition of those beliefs.

[Proud_Democratt]

21. I would agree with Christ being a Prince of Peace, however

it is a story. Maybe it is even a lie, based on a lie(virgin birth). The New Testament was written, translated, re-translated, censored by church leaders that had personal agendas to fulfill.
It's very sad that a religious figure like Jesus, has been mishandled by the early Roman Catholic nutjobs. The same ones that forbade the New World expedition and were torturing Jews to convert them to Christianity. Brotherly love...what a hypocrasy in the name of Christ.
His parables, if true, were of common sense, and inargueably, were of peace.

[medeak]

5. believe in everything....

rekindling the metaphysics family brought me up in:

http://www.religiousscience.org/ucrs_site/philosophy/index.html

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I prefer to celebrate "Easter" in the most traditional way possible.

by having raucous, solstice, pagan, springtime, buds bloomin', nature burstin', shorts and tight skirts comin' out of the wardrobe on a sunny warm day SEX.

As if rabbits & eggs have jack diddly squat to do with Jesus.

[Erika]

10. that also n/t

[DemInDistress]

7. not me..jesus was a man who died..period..nothing godly about

jesus. yes, he was popular with some but god? NO, don't buy it never will and I went to catholic school. that also doesn't mean you can't believe jesus rose from the dead if that's what you want to accept.
earth was not created in 6 days while GOD took off on sunday,adam was not created from 100 lbs of clay nor eve from adam's rib. the snake did not tempt eve to "eat the apple" from the tree of knowledge and then tempt adam to eat that apple whereupon GOD cast them out of the Garden of Eden to
earn a living. BTW, adam and eve's first born son turned out to be a murderer ABEL. quite a tale that
bible.

[Erika]

11. Yeah, truly interesting

Today's first soap opera,

[demosincebirth]

14. Just got back. Happy Easter everyone!

[RB TexLa]

15. Peace unto you

[JohnnyRingo]

16. I don't attend...

But I wouldn't want to discourage anyone else from exercising their religious ceremony.

on edit:
Happy Easter.

[Wwagsthedog]

17. I sure do like Dove Dark Chocolate easter Eggs. nt

[DarkTirade]

18. No option for 'I celebrated Ostara a couple weeks ago'? :)

[Dervill Crow]

23. And Beltane approaches . . .

Easter really snuck up on me this year. No spiral hams to be found in the store, so my husband is making stuffed green peppers even as I type . . . I forgot this is a holiday for my kids, and the grown ones are coming over today for dinner.

Guess I better get off the computer and showered and stuff. I slept until almost 2 pm today. I love Sundays!

[nemo137]

19. My Easter Vigil was staying up til 5 writing a history paper on Ireland

Then getting up and going to Church and almost falling asleep at the altar rail. Happy Easter, all.

[Dervill Crow]

22. I went to the Spirit-Guided Friends Church

with some friends last night. If I was a Christian I'd say I felt the Holy Spirit was there, even though it wasn't a church service; they have an open house once a month and do readings (tarot, runes, past lives, numerology). It was a nice outing.

I especially avoid church on Easter because so often it is the "five-point gospel presentation" (anyone who has done D. James Kennedy's Evangelism Explosion class knows what I'm talking about) for the Easter/Christmas church attendees--not my cuppa tea.