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Originally posted by FMFOk i am willing to relinquish the idea that they may be pagans but one cannot escape the fact that Easter in Indonesia as elsewhere contains pagan elements, otherwise, you will need to explain your fellows presence with a huge Easter egg, so large in fact that it took two people to carry it!
If you believe that the two guys you saw in that photo are "pagans" because they had an "egg" and if you seriously believe that the events I described in the OP were a "pagan festival" involving the worship of pagan deities "Ashtoreth and Astarte", then that ~ I suppose ~ is your perception of Christianity in Indonesia. So be it. 🙂
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI suppose "pagan" eggs were "pagan elements" for "pagans". There is no "pagan element" in Christ being executed and being resurrected [unless you can tell me there is]: it is 100% Christian theology. There is no "pagan element" in Christians here commemorating these pivotal events in the life of the figure they revere. Unless they are using the "eggs" to worship a "pagan" deity in some way, they are not "pagan elements".
Ok i am willing to relinquish the idea that they may be pagans but one cannot escape the fact that Easter in Indonesia as elsewhere contains pagan elements, otherwise, you will need to explain your fellows presence with a huge Easter egg, so large in fact that it took two people to carry it!
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Originally posted by FMFright sooooo lets get this, two fellows carrying a huge Easter egg through the city on behalf of Christians to petition parliament to stop closing churches and there is not a pagan element in site, thank you for that.
I suppose "pagan" eggs were "pagan elements" for "pagans". There is no "pagan element" in Christ being executed and being resurrected [unless you can tell me there is]: it is 100% Christian theology. There is no "pagan element" in Christians here commemorating these pivotal events in the life of the figure they revere. Unless they are using the "eggs" to worship a "pagan" deity in some way, they are not "pagan elements".
Originally posted by robbie carrobieUnless they are engaged in a "pagan rite", "pagan worship" or a "pagan festival", celebrating "pagan deities", or affirming "pagan beliefs", I don't see how they can be described as "pagan elements"
right sooooo lets get this, two fellows carrying a huge Easter egg through the city on behalf of Christians to petition parliament to stop closing churches and there is not a pagan element in site, thank you for that.
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Originally posted by FMFand this huge effigy of an egg, it was merely coincidence, I see.
Unless they are engaged in a "pagan rite", "pagan worship" or a "pagan festival", celebrating "pagan deities", or affirming "pagan beliefs", I don't see how they can be described as "pagan elements"