Happy Easter

He died for us….

(Original artwork at MusingMinds, hat tip – Polipundit)

And Happy Passover to all of our Jewish readers of faith as well.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

20 Comments

1. Best wishes to you as well and all those you love..(4 more days of Matzah for me and then Chinese food…yeah!).

   Ben

   Comment by benj — April 16, 2006 @ 7:27 pm - April 16, 2006

2. The matzoh I can deal with…

   It’s the gefilte fish that turns my stomach!!!

   Good thing I’m Catholic, then, huh?

   Eric in Hollywood
   He is risen…He is risen, indeed!

   Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — April 16, 2006 @ 8:27 pm - April 16, 2006

3. Funny, my housemate, also Catholic, almost retches when he sees me snack on gefilte fish…with horseradish of course. Then again, when in a restaurant for breakfast, watching him eat sausage does not sit well with my digestive track which is set on kosher for most things so turnabout is fair play I guess..lol.

   Comment by benj — April 17, 2006 @ 6:19 am - April 17, 2006

4. Good point, benj!

   Let’s settle on a nice brisket and some chocolate macaroons, then.

   Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 9:51 am - April 17, 2006

5. Nice sketch.

   However, some of us are familiar with the (earlier) scapegoat ritual and how that relates to the crucifiction and resurrection myth.

   Comment by raj — April 17, 2006 @ 11:22 am - April 17, 2006

6. raj, the consummate bitch artist said…

   “However, some of us are familiar with the (earlier) scapegoat ritual and how that relates to the crucifiction and resurrection myth.”

   It’s unabashed idiots like you who make God’s love of man all the more mind-boggling.

   As for the rest of us sinners, we all know you’re just a miserable prick.

   Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 11:36 am - April 17, 2006

7. #6 HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 11:36 am – April 17, 2006

   I take this as an admission that you have no idea what the scapegoat ritual refers to. Or how it relates to the “Jesus died for your sins” clap-trap.

   Comment by raj — April 17, 2006 @ 12:00 pm - April 17, 2006

8. #6 HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 11:36 am – April 17, 2006

   It’s unabashed idiots like you …

   Oh, and, lest it has passed your notice, I tend to ignore taunts. I learned to do that about a decade ago when I used to post on the ridiculous abomination–Rush Lamebrain’s favorite web site–FreeRepublic.com.

   I’ll do the /sarcasm here.

   Comment by raj — April 17, 2006 @ 12:04 pm - April 17, 2006

9. raj, don’t flatter yourself, sweetie…

   You couldn’t ignore anyone, so great is your need for attention. If this weren’t the case, you wouldn’t feel the need to try polluting a “Happy Easter / Passover” thread.

   Oy, what a miserable wretch you are!

   Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 12:26 pm - April 17, 2006

10. It’s amazing how the atheists like Raj always are the biggest proselytizers, isn’t it?

    One would think they didn’t really believe what they were saying and were looking desperately for other people to validate their beliefs.

    To my mind, believing in God is absolutely logical; otherwise, one must consider mankind, who knows and controls barely a fraction of the universe, to be the highest of beings.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 17, 2006 @ 12:32 pm - April 17, 2006

11. Nice point, NDT.

    The Tower of Babel comes to mind, for some reason.

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — April 17, 2006 @ 12:36 pm - April 17, 2006

12. I just think it’s a very pretty drawing and a glorious message.

    Comment by V the K — April 17, 2006 @ 12:49 pm - April 17, 2006

13. And it was a nice weekend. I was able to participate in my very first Seder; then my partner and I went to church on Sunday.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 17, 2006 @ 1:00 pm - April 17, 2006

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    Comment by Attmay — April 17, 2006 @ 1:57 pm - April 17, 2006

15. I had a nice weekend, too. Church was good. I love teaching Sunday School. And all the trees in our neighborhood are in full bloom.

    Comment by V the K — April 17, 2006 @ 6:38 pm - April 17, 2006

16. I hope you all had a nice weekend. My mom has been working on lots of new ways to cook with Matzah.

    Comment by Attmay — April 18, 2006 @ 8:02 pm - April 18, 2006

17. In my dictionary the first definition of scape goat is:

    One that is made to bear the blame of others.

    Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

    Theologicly this is a little inaccurate as Jesus was not drafted, he bore the punishment for the sins of mankind voluntarily. Otherwise scapegoat sounds about right.

    Otpu

    Comment by otpu — April 18, 2006 @ 9:09 pm - April 18, 2006

18. otpu — April 18, 2006 @ 9:09 pm – April 18, 2006

    Do a little research. The scapegoat ritual involved two goats. Each year, the tribe ritually heaped one of the goats with the “sins” of the tribe. The other goat was without sin. The goat upon which the “sins” of the tribe were ritually heaped upon was driven into the wilderness, presumably to die. The goat that was without sin was sacrificed, and the flesh was partaken of the tribe.

    The analogy to the crucifiction should be obvious. The Jesus character in the bible was supposedly without sin and he was supposedly sacrificed. (The sinless goat.) What was the sinful goat? The Judas character, perhaps, since he allegedly betrayed the Jesus character, and, thus, sinned.

    Let’s take this one step further: the “communion” ritual. The communion ritual is, obviously, ritual cannibalism. But, in analogy to the scaptgoat ritual, it is the partaking of the flesh of the scapegoat by the tribe.

    The modern definition of “scapegoat” is interesting, but it has little to do with the scapegoat ritual of ancient times.

    Comment by raj — April 19, 2006 @ 5:16 pm - April 19, 2006

19. Nice blog! This is my first visit.
    Wow, Raj, your understanding of Christianity and its Jewish roots is lacking (as is your spelling). Judas plays no real role in the history of redemption, certainly nothing that approaches his being a “goat” (to continue to abuse and stretch the analogy upon which you’re fixated). Rather than being “ritual cannibalism”, the New Covenant instituted at the Last Supper is (to use your word) “obviously” a direct reference to the previous Covenant, in which the sacrifice was eaten. Jesus was no more calling for cannibalism than he was (“obviously”) calling for door worship, when He said He was the door to the sheepfold, or vine worship when He said He was the True Vine.
    Hollywood NeoCon called it right.

    Comment by Geoff — April 22, 2006 @ 9:16 am - April 22, 2006

20. One thing that never seems to occur to the “it’s-all-a-myth” types is that the mythology may prefigure the truth as played out in Christian history. If there is a God (humor me, skeptics), then God is not bound to our time/space limitations. Perhaps the mythology, from pagan fertility cults and the like (certainly it predated even Judaism), may have FORESHADOWED Christ.

    Those who make fun of us for believing in Christ have made a decision NOT to believe. When they try to make it sound like the inevitable result of their superior wisdom, all they’re doing is showing their own insecurity.

    One of the smartest people in history was probably the one who first figured out how to make a wheel. Our modern skeptics wouldn’t want to hang around much with him — he worshiped bison and deer and probably didn’t use deodorant — but he may have had a higher I.Q. than do many of our modern atheists.

    When we go away to college, a lot of us learn how to worship our own intellects. Some of us eventually graduate, and others do not.

    Comment by Lori Heine — April 22, 2006 @ 5:07 pm - April 22, 2006

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