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What is your denomination?

Roman Catholic
315
34%
Eastern Orthodox
65
7%
Non-Chalcedonian (Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East , etc.)
10
1%
Anglican/Episcopalian
57
6%
Lutheran or Reformed (including Calvinist, Presbyterian, etc.)
86
9%
Methodist
30
3%
Baptist
104
11%
Pentecostal
31
3%
Restorationist (LDS Movement, Jehovah's Witness, etc.)
36
4%
Other Christian
200
21%
 
Total votes : 934

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Postby Lantrus » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:02 am

Constaniana wrote:
Jute wrote:Anyone care for those personality tests? Those "Which [X] are you?" Here's a Easter themed one, telling you which Saint you are most like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/0 ... 9812588151

I got St. Francis.


Same as well.

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Postby The Union of the West » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:28 am

Jute wrote:Anyone care for those personality tests? Those "Which [X] are you?" Here's a Easter themed one, telling you which Saint you are most like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/0 ... 9812588151

I got St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Postby Jute » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:35 am

The Alexanderians wrote:
Jute wrote:Anyone care for those personality tests? Those "Which [X] are you?" Here's a Easter themed one, telling you which Saint you are most like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/0 ... 9812588151

I'm St. Catherine apparently. Is this a Catholic-centric quiz/test/thingy?

Not sure, actually. Seeing as it came from the Huffington Post, maybe liberal?
Either way, I got St. Valentine :P
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Postby Angleter » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:49 am

Jute wrote:
The Alexanderians wrote:I'm St. Catherine apparently. Is this a Catholic-centric quiz/test/thingy?

Not sure, actually. Seeing as it came from the Huffington Post, maybe liberal?
Either way, I got St. Valentine :P


The thing itself refers to the 'Church of the Resurrection', which it transpires is a church in Illinois. After far more digging than should be necessary, their Facebook page said they're part of the Anglican Church in North America, which are a breakaway traditionalist Anglican group. Which probably explains "St. Cranmer" and "St. Wilberforce".
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Postby Aelex » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:59 am

Jute wrote:Anyone care for those personality tests? Those "Which [X] are you?" Here's a Easter themed one, telling you which Saint you are most like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/0 ... 9812588151

I did the test two time for the lulz and finished with Jeanne D'Arc and Saint Thomas D'Aquin. Was I incousiously influenced by my patriotism? :eyebrow:
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Postby Jute » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:08 pm

Angleter wrote:
Jute wrote:Not sure, actually. Seeing as it came from the Huffington Post, maybe liberal?
Either way, I got St. Valentine :P


The thing itself refers to the 'Church of the Resurrection', which it transpires is a church in Illinois. After far more digging than should be necessary, their Facebook page said they're part of the Anglican Church in North America, which are a breakaway traditionalist Anglican group. Which probably explains "St. Cranmer" and "St. Wilberforce".

So, not really liberal.
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When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
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Postby Sun Wukong » Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:01 pm

Have a happy Easter all.
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Postby Tarsonis Survivors » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:00 pm

Happy Pascha

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Postby Constantinopolis » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:29 pm

Guys, um... it's not Sunday yet...
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Postby Sun Wukong » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:34 pm

Constantinopolis wrote:Guys, um... it's not Sunday yet...

So wait... Christmas gets like a whole goddamn month, if not more, in which it - and the associated well-wishing - is inescapably omnipresent... but I can't tell someone to "have a happy Easter" even a day early?
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Postby The Alma Mater » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:43 pm

Constantinopolis wrote:Guys, um... it's not Sunday yet...


Yes, we are celebrating the days that there was no God. Tomorrow we mourn his rising.
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Postby Sebastianbourg » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:51 pm

The Alma Mater wrote:
Constantinopolis wrote:Guys, um... it's not Sunday yet...


Yes, we are celebrating the days that there was no God. Tomorrow we mourn his rising.

:eyebrow:
I know you're attempting to make a joke but there was never no God; God didn't die!
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Postby The Alma Mater » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:59 pm

Sebastianbourg wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Yes, we are celebrating the days that there was no God. Tomorrow we mourn his rising.

:eyebrow:
I know you're attempting to make a joke but there was never no God; God didn't die!


THAT is something the opinions within christianity differ about.
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Postby Herskerstad » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:10 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Sebastianbourg wrote: :eyebrow:
I know you're attempting to make a joke but there was never no God; God didn't die!


THAT is something the opinions within christianity differ about.


Not within the main branches. Trinitarians will not view as somehow all 3 persons of the trinity being gone or somehow eradicated. Arians and many other Unitarians that view Jesus as just another prophet which would not imply the death of God. Modalists would likely just have it that the son switch to the father the moment of the death of said body. So you might do yourself a favor and define which branches or individuals who take it as God being completely gone for 3 days since you've made notice with a capital THAT as if it somehow is a massive, schismatic controversy.
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Postby Sebastianbourg » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:12 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Sebastianbourg wrote: :eyebrow:
I know you're attempting to make a joke but there was never no God; God didn't die!


THAT is something the opinions within christianity differ about.

I'll rephrase it; God did not cease to exist.

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Postby Lleu llaw Gyffes » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:30 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Sebastianbourg wrote: :eyebrow:
I know you're attempting to make a joke but there was never no God; God didn't die!


THAT is something the opinions within christianity differ about.


God died on Friday and rose on Sunday.
Jesus is totally and utterly God AND totally totally and utterly Man.
Take no notice of that bearded man hiding behind the curtain!

Creed of St Athanasius: Father is God, Son is God, Holy Ghost is God; yet they are not three Gods, but one God.

Is there anything in Scripture or Tradition to say what Father and Holy Ghost did on Saturday?

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Postby The Alma Mater » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:53 am

Lleu llaw Gyffes wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
THAT is something the opinions within christianity differ about.


God died on Friday and rose on Sunday.
Jesus is totally and utterly God AND totally totally and utterly Man.
Take no notice of that bearded man hiding behind the curtain!

Creed of St Athanasius: Father is God, Son is God, Holy Ghost is God; yet they are not three Gods, but one God.

Is there anything in Scripture or Tradition to say what Father and Holy Ghost did on Saturday?

No, but many assume the son was being tortured in hell.

Which indeed technically means they still existed; so my claim that people could be celebrating a god-free world is wrong :(
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Postby The Archregimancy » Sat Apr 04, 2015 2:37 am

Sun Wukong wrote:
Constantinopolis wrote:Guys, um... it's not Sunday yet...

So wait... Christmas gets like a whole goddamn month, if not more, in which it - and the associated well-wishing - is inescapably omnipresent... but I can't tell someone to "have a happy Easter" even a day early?


A full week early.

Everyone surely knows that Easter is the 12th of April this year ;)

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Postby The Alexanderians » Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:11 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:So wait... Christmas gets like a whole goddamn month, if not more, in which it - and the associated well-wishing - is inescapably omnipresent... but I can't tell someone to "have a happy Easter" even a day early?


A full week early.

Everyone surely knows that Easter is the 12th of April this year ;)

Exactly, don't know why everyone's wishing me a Happy Easter a week early.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:22 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:So wait... Christmas gets like a whole goddamn month, if not more, in which it - and the associated well-wishing - is inescapably omnipresent... but I can't tell someone to "have a happy Easter" even a day early?


A full week early.

Everyone surely knows that Easter is the 12th of April this year ;)


Nonsense. The honouring of the Anglo-Saxon godess Eostre was the 20th of march. People are all vastly too late :P
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Postby The Archregimancy » Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:50 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
A full week early.

Everyone surely knows that Easter is the 12th of April this year ;)


Nonsense. The honouring of the Anglo-Saxon godess Eostre was the 20th of march. People are all vastly too late :P


Repetition for the sake of pedantry...

The Archregimancy wrote:Easter falls when it does not because of a hypothetical Germanic goddess whose existence is wholly unrecorded outside of one of the Venerable Bede's more obscure 8th century writings (the De Temporum Ratione), and whose existence is unattributed outside of Bede, but because it's inevitably closely associated with the Jewish Passover - the Last Supper being a Passover seder. One of the earliest dating controversies in Christianity was the Quartodecimanian controversy, where the disagreement was between those figures in Rome who wanted to hold Easter on the Sunday closest to Passover, and those eastern Mediterranean churches who wanted to always begin Easter on 14 Nisan - ie, the day before the Jewish Passover on 15 Nisan [Jewish Calendar] - regardless of whether or not it was a Sunday. Since the Jewish calendar is lunisolar, Passover moves across the Julian/Gregorian calendar; which is why Easter also moves. English and German are in fact highly unusual in using a variant of 'Easter' (whatever the existence of Eostre/Ostara, the month of April seems to have been called some variant of 'Eosturmonath' in post-Classical Germanic societies) as their name for the celebrations connected to the resurrection of Jesus. In most other major European languages, the name of the celebration is taken from a word for Passover; this includes Scandinavian countries.

Hence, for example, we have Greek Pascha, French Paques, Welsh Pasg, Russian Paskha, Spanish Pascuas, Latin Pascha, Swedish Pask, Icelandic Paska, and Gaelic Casca (the initial 'P' having transmuted to a 'K' sound in q-celtic languages). This principle even works in many non-Indoeuropean languages, hence Indonesian Paskah, Hebrew Pascha, Basque Bazko, Finnish Pääsiäistä, Hawaiian Pakoa, or Persian Pak. English speakers attempting to draw a direct correlation between Eostre and the original selection of the date of Easter in the Mediterranean are displaying an almost wilfully ignorant level of ethnocentrism.

None of which is to say that there weren't subsequent later influences on local celebrations of these festivals in Northern Europe once Christianity spread outside of its Mediterranean homeland, or that there might not have been useful points of commonality for early missionaries in existing midwinter and spring celebrations - but the dates of both Christmas and Easter had been set long before Christianity had any substantive interaction with Norse paganism. They were not 'stolen' from Norse paganism - unless anyone cares to claim that Norse paganism influenced the timing of Passover.


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Constantinopolis wrote:Ah, that explains the strange fact I discovered myself a little earlier, namely the weird English and German names for Pascha (which are obvious cognates of each other, but unrelated to the names everyone else uses, including other Germanic languages). Thank you!

By the way, is there any connection between "Eosturmonath" and East/Ost (i.e. the English/German name of the direction from which the sun rises)? In other words, does "Eosturmonath" mean something along the lines of "sunrise month"? Or is that just a coincidence?


We're in the grounds of language reconstruction, which is simultaneously a somewhat speculative art, but also better developed than people might think.

In any case, page 43 of Kroonen's 2013 Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic notes the following (some abbreviation; accent marks left out).

*austera- adv. 'east, eastwards' - ON austr adv. Far. eystur adv. Elfd. oster adv. OE east adv. E east OFri. aster adv. OS ostar adv. MDu ooster adv. OHG ostar adv. - Lat. auster m. 'south wind; south'; YAv. usastara- adj. 'eastern.
An adverb created to the PIE word for 'dawn' (see *austron-) with the constrastive *tero-suffix.

*austron- f. 'Easter' - OE eastre f. 'spring goddess', pl. 'Easter', OHG ostara f. 'Easter'. MHG oster(n) f., G Ostern f.pl. - Close to Lith. ausra f. 'dawn'; also cf. Skt. usas- f., OAv. usa, YAv. acc. usanhem, usqm < Arm. ayg; Lat. aurora f.
The Indo-European word for 'dawn' was an s-stem, viz. nom *h2eus-os, gen. *hzus-s-os. Germanic and Baltic replaced this formation with a form in *-reh2-, cf. Skt. usra- f. 'dawn, morning'. Also cf. *austera-.


From which we can see that your deduction is probably largely correct. The etymological sources of the modern English and German 'Easter' are from the proto-Germanic root for 'East' and early Indo-European root for 'dawn', which also may have been applied to some form of spring Goddess if Bede is to be believed - though Bede is the only source for this. Certainly the etymological roots of 'Eosturmonath' would seem to originally be 'east/dawn month'.

Abbreviations:
ON - Old Norse
Far. - Faroese
Elfd. - Elfdalian
OE - Old English
E - English
OFri - Old Frisian
OHG - Old High German
MHG - Middle High German
OHG - Old High German
OS - Old Saxon
MDu - Middle Dutch
Lat. - Latin
Skt. - Sanskrit
PIE - Proto-Indo-European
YAv. - Young Avestan
OAv. - Old Avestan
Arm. - Armenian

* is the standard linguistic symbol identifying a reconstructed word in a reconstructed proto-language; where the symbol is missing, the word is attested via documentary evidence.

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Postby Jute » Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:52 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
A full week early.

Everyone surely knows that Easter is the 12th of April this year ;)


Nonsense. The honouring of the Anglo-Saxon godess Eostre was the 20th of march. People are all vastly too late :P
So that's where the name comes from?
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sat Apr 04, 2015 4:03 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Nonsense. The honouring of the Anglo-Saxon godess Eostre was the 20th of march. People are all vastly too late :P


Repetition for the sake of pedantry...

Why do you think I quoted it specifically at you ;)
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sat Apr 04, 2015 4:04 am

Jute wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Nonsense. The honouring of the Anglo-Saxon godess Eostre was the 20th of march. People are all vastly too late :P
So that's where the name comes from?


No. But Wiccans like to pretend it is.
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Postby Jute » Sat Apr 04, 2015 6:37 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Jute wrote:So that's where the name comes from?


No. But Wiccans like to pretend it is.

They do? Interesting...
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When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."

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