It is to be hoped that The Passion of the Christ doesn’t join The Ten Commandments as standard Easter fair on television. There is enough to scare children today without that showing up on the small screen.
Anya, I’m surprised that some “Pagan” hasn’t filed suit for the misappropriation of “sacred symbols” by non-believers. That’s coming. New converts tend to be overzealous.
]]>I’m surprised (well, maybe not too surprised) that the Christians didn’t demand the removal of those Pagan symbols.
:winks:
]]>One problem I have with overenthusiastic Christians, even or perhaps especially when they’re trying to be sensitive to other religions, is that many of them seem unaware that there were any religions or any holy days celebrated anywhere on the face of the planet before Christians came along… and unaware how many of those holidays they have themselves borrowed.
You can bet O’Really or someone of his ilk will pick up this incident and use it whine about the persecution of Christians.
‘Scuse me now; I have some rites of Spring to engage in, and they weren’t set to music by Stravinsky…
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