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Tag Archives: Easter
British people now appallingly ignorant of even the most basic Christian beliefs, Easter poll shows
Judas Priest betrayed Jesus in Bethlehem – poll reveals lack of Easter knowledge: Basic details about the Easter story are known by as few as half of the people polled in a survey Only around half of those quizzed – 55 … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Popular Culture, Society, Secularism
Tagged Easter, Great Britain, Ignorance, Richard Dawkins, U.K., UK, United Kingdom
Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s Easter: Hope, beauty and holy motion
Bruce Cockburn’s Easter: Hope, beauty and holy motion Even though he seems to enjoy celebrating baby Jesus’s birth, Cockburn has fearlessly delved into the adult Jesus’s suffering on “the cross on the hill.” Brian Walsh writes that salvation, for Cockburn, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Theology
Tagged Bruce Cockburn, Easter, Religion
Resurrection Day!
An eleventh century Byzantine panel showing the Anastasi (Resurrection): the risen Christ raises Adam and Eve
Posted in Theology, Visual Arts
Tagged Easter, Resurrection
Hot cross buns, Easter eggs, Ishtar and the Emperor Constantine: Is Easter a Pagan festival?
Worth your listening time: philosopher Tim McGrew discusses whether Easter is Pagan in this short (less than twelve minutes) radio interview. Click on the link and give it a listen.
Posted in History, Philosophy
Tagged Easter, Paganism, Tim McGrew
Have you ever considered: What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday?
What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday? Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and most mainline Protestant churches teach that Jesus descended to the realm of the dead on Holy Saturday to save righteous souls, such as the Hebrew patriarchs, who died … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged Bible, Easter, Hell, New Testament
Lee Strobel replies to Ricky Gervais and explains ‘How Easter killed my faith in atheism’
How Easter Killed My Faith in Atheism Was the resurrection simply the recasting of ancient mythology, akin to the fanciful tales of Osiris or Mithras? If you want to see a historian laugh out loud, bring up that kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Biblical Studies
Tagged Atheism, Atheists, Biblical Studies, Easter, New Atheists
