What does Christianity have that's original AND fun?

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-03-21 02:45am

It's Easter and I'm stuck at home doing nothing. No malls, no movie theaters, it's all CRAP!

This begs the question. What original Christian occasion is fun? Christmas? All the gift-giving and yuletide fornication's taken from the Romans and pagans and heathens and idolaters. Easter? The chocolate rabbits and eggs are merely fertility symbols - I say symbols for testicles. Lusankya says their ovaries. She is wrong.

Even the Muslims suffer from the same thing. Ramadan? What the hell is up with not-eating? Like in Easter where you don't eat meats.

Mang. It's all no fun.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-03-21 02:50am

Well duh, everyone knows this. Judeo-Christian religion is not about fun. It's about guilt and shame.

The only way to make Abrahamic religions fun is to make up your own version of them, which is what the "prosperity gospel" American megachurch versions do.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-03-21 03:24am

Yeah... makes you wonder how such an un-fun religion ever got so prominent.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-03-21 03:36am

I was going to say Easter Egg hunts and candy baskets. That's kind of fun. Then I saw a sign at a Church the other day:

"Easter isn't about the Rabbit."

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-03-21 03:39am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Yeah... makes you wonder how such an un-fun religion ever got so prominent.

"Fun" was not a big part of peasant life until very recently. For almost the entire life of the Church, and particularly its greatest expansionary period, life was harsh, painful, and short. An unending story of back-breaking toil, disease, early death, and heartbreak, punctuated only by the occasional festival and the weekly visits to church where you were encouraged to make even more sacrifices in the vain hope that you would get a better life in Heaven.

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2008-03-21 04:28am

The thing is, there are plenty of "fun" festivals out there, plenty of which predate Christianity. Saturnalia, for instance, is pretty fun. And Thai New Year is basically everyone in Thailand getting together and having a massive water fight. In a tropical country, what's not fun about that? And it's not as though life was that much less crap in ancient Rome and Thailand than it was in early Christendom.

It's like the church leaders went out and tried to deliberately make life as un-fun as it could be.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2008-03-21 08:39am

If life was fun, then the sheep wouldn't be concerned about improving their afterlives, and that's no good for the clergy.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2008-03-21 09:35am

In the Middle Ages, European peasants actually had more days off than modern industrial workers thanks to all the feast days and holidays. Latin American countries still turn important saints' days into wild parties (and of course, there's Carnaval). It's the Protestants who have mostly cornered the market on stultifying boredom.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-03-21 10:50am

RedImperator wrote:In the Middle Ages, European peasants actually had more days off than modern industrial workers thanks to all the feast days and holidays. Latin American countries still turn important saints' days into wild parties (and of course, there Carnivale). It's the Protestants who have mostly cornered the market on stultifying boredom.

There is a bit of an inverse corellation between harshness of everyday life and intensity of parties, isn't it?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2008-03-21 11:08am

PeZook wrote:
RedImperator wrote:In the Middle Ages, European peasants actually had more days off than modern industrial workers thanks to all the feast days and holidays. Latin American countries still turn important saints' days into wild parties (and of course, there Carnivale). It's the Protestants who have mostly cornered the market on stultifying boredom.
There is a bit of an inverse corellation between harshness of everyday life and intensity of parties, isn't it?

I noticed that in college. If someone with an easy major and someone with a hard major were throwing a party on the same night, you always went with the hard major. Also, the engineers and hard sciences majors always had more beer and better drugs on hand.

houser2112 · Post by **houser2112** » 2008-03-21 11:11am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:It's Easter and I'm stuck at home doing nothing. No malls, no movie theaters, it's all CRAP!

This begs the question. What original Christian occasion is fun? Christmas? All the gift-giving and yuletide fornication's taken from the Romans and pagans and heathens and idolaters. Easter? The chocolate rabbits and eggs are merely fertility symbols - I say symbols for testicles. Lusankya says their ovaries. She is wrong.

Even the Muslims suffer from the same thing. Ramadan? What the hell is up with not-eating? Like in Easter where you don't eat meats.

Mang. It's all no fun.

Easter as practiced today isn't even entirely Christian. The idea of a zombified savior is, but the timing isn't. It's logical (although we're talking about religion here; I suppose it's given that logic gets thrown out the window) to think that if Easter were commemmorating an event that it would be celebrated on a specific day, not based on the phases of the moon, which seems rather pagan to me.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » 2008-03-21 04:41pm

RedImperator wrote:
PeZook wrote:
RedImperator wrote:In the Middle Ages, European peasants actually had more days off than modern industrial workers thanks to all the feast days and holidays. Latin American countries still turn important saints' days into wild parties (and of course, there Carnivale). It's the Protestants who have mostly cornered the market on stultifying boredom.
There is a bit of an inverse corellation between harshness of everyday life and intensity of parties, isn't it?
I noticed that in college. If someone with an easy major and someone with a hard major were throwing a party on the same night, you always went with the hard major. Also, the engineers and hard sciences majors always had more beer and better drugs on hand.

That might be true, but those same engineer/science major parties have a distinctive lack of the opposite gender.

Zixinus · Post by **Zixinus** » 2008-03-21 05:37pm

In my country its a tradition to visit most female relatives and friends in your town, and spray them. Usually by perfume and a small poem or song. Then the kids get a choclate or painted egg. It's a kids thing really.

Of course, traditionally it was done with a bucket of water. Nowadays, they just use soda flasks (not in drinks, bot special bottles).

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-03-21 07:10pm

houser2112 wrote: Easter as practiced today isn't even entirely Christian. The idea of a zombified savior is, but the timing isn't. It's logical (although we're talking about religion here; I suppose it's given that logic gets thrown out the window) to think that if Easter were commemmorating an event that it would be celebrated on a specific day, not based on the phases of the moon, which seems rather pagan to me.

Lunar calendars are pagan, now? News to the jews, I'm sure.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2008-03-21 08:14pm

At least in modern days religous holidays are traditionally days on which the whole family comes together with is rather rare nowadays. So for people who enjoy family meetings there´s obviously some fun involoved.

Personally i hate such meetings since i don´t like or don´t care for most of my family (besides parents) so it´s nothing for me and i don´t attend such meetings. But i can understand if people enjoy going home to meet friends and family get drunk with them and enjoy their company.

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