For years I
wondered just how white rabbits, colored eggs and yellow chicken candy became
part of the Easter celebration. Perhaps
God produced a miracle for the church where rabbits hopped around the cross at
night and shit out colored hard-boiled eggs for the guards to find the next
morning, and chickens pooped out babies with wings that you see in all the
religious pictures.
I don’t know
much about the Catholic Church and its teachings; but rabbits and eggs and
flying babies seem as logical as statues crying blood, stigmata and exorcism...
I have
recently found that, like most church celebrations, the Catholic clergy interwove
pagan rites into their holy days to make them more palatable to the people who
were forced to convert.
and I am not afraid of burning in hell
the Ol'Buzzard
As a child I tried to believe, but the more I learned the shakier my belief got. Until one day when the contradictions seemed to be too many and the explanation was pretty much, "because we say so." I tried to make sense of it until about my mid twenties I just said, "Give me a Flying Spaghetti Monster any day." That was it.
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