(0646) Before you begin … morning all by the way … you might like to check out:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/03/they-never-sleep-never-rest.html
Time to open here with a look at the worthy NPR in the US. (0742)
6. Don’t be caught out there
5. They’re still pushing the deathjabs
4. Lady Rebecca
Amazing what a bit of concerted exposure will achieve … but it takes hard work by all sane minded people. We’re not handed out safety and prosperity … we have to fight for it.
3. Donny and his best mate Lindsey
The ways of the God Emperor are inscrutable.
2. The non-profit, public interest NPR being grilled not long ago
Who are they, first up?
Facebook, of course, is totally reliable and trustworthy, just like Two Tier over here, Tavistock, Momentum, Nigel Farage, Alastair Campbell. Here are a few different profiles:
I’m delighted to say that my primary school never marked Easter in any way. Nor did we do sentimental gloop about Xmas. Quite right: that’s not what schools are for. No Eid, either, please, nor Diwali, nor that Xmas-competitor Jewish one (name escapes me). And absolutely no witch-doctoring, Druiding and other bonkers stuff.
Secular stuff is fine by me: if English schools want to do a Shakespeare Supper go right ahead. (My wife once ran a Shakespeare Supper modelled on a Burns Supper: great success.)
Easter is deeply embedded in our culture and predates Christianity:
‘One of the most widely cited pre-Christian festivals linked to Easter is the Anglo-Saxon celebration of Ēostre, also known as Ostara. According to historical accounts, particularly those of the Venerable Bede, Ēostre was a goddess of spring and fertility whose festival occurred around the vernal equinox. This time of year marked a critical juncture for agrarian societies, as longer days and warming temperatures signalled the beginning of the planting season and the reawakening of life.’
At my school in the mid 1960’s we observed both because one leads in to the other (our national religion before and after) and it was explained to us why. I’ve been to Ēostre festivals both here in the West Country and in Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
This chap says you’re talking bollocks. By all means argue with him (he’s stopped carrying my comments). But my own guess is that he’s right on this one.
https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-and-eggs/
It doesn’t matter what his or your opinion is on the history, or purpose, of Easter. It happens. It is real to those who believe in it. That’s what faith is. However the celebration of spring is based in fact, seasons change and those occasions are marked by those who live by them. The way people do it is different the world over. Your problem is you don’t like the hyphenated compound Anglo-Saxon – so you go and look for something you can use to trash it. Yeah, I have Saxon ancestry and my tribe converted en masse to Christianity.
What a jumble. “It doesn’t matter what his or your opinion is on the history, or purpose, of Easter.” But your piece was about a (misrepresentation of) the history of Easter.
My objection is to schools trying to indoctrinate children, whether the indoctrination be religious, political, woke, or whatever. If their parents want to do it, so be it. But money extorted from taxpayers should not be spent on indoctrination.
“It is real to those who believe in it.” Yeah, like the flat earth, global boiling, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the “Druids” at Stonehenge at the solstice.
“you don’t like the hyphenated compound Anglo-Saxon” All is clear. You are bonkers.
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JH: Wonder who’s bonkers.