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Parties begin with one hour held on your choice of the Indoor Turf, Sport Court or Gym, Fieldhouse Sports and Game Parties really keep the kids moving! Activities include, but are not limited to: dodgeball, kickball, flag football, soccer, basketball (Gym only), broomball, floor hockey (Sport Court only)…you name it! The little ones will love the parachute and a game of capture the flag. The party then continues in the party space for 30 minutes while kids catch their breath and enjoy punch and cupcakes.
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All ages will love the Fieldhouse Climbing Wall! Every Climbing Wall Party is hosted and includes Climbing Wall Attendants to belay the kids, as well as harnesses and climbing shoes for guests. Climbing Wall parties are set up in the Cafe area for the full 90 minutes so the guests can enjoy climbing with the refreshments close at hand. Our Friday night party is a great option for the tweens and teens!
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Splish, splash, let the memories last! Kids ages 6 and up will love the indoor pool, water slide, lazy river, aquatic climbing wall and zero-depth entry activity and play area! Swim parties include 20 admissions to the pool. Two hours of swim time. Swim parties include two hosts. Age restrictions apply.
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Propaganda in the Rhodesian Bush War
During the Rhodesian Bush War, informational and political warfare was mounted by each of the involved factions: on one side, the Rhodesian government (led by Prime Minister Ian Smith of the Rhodesian Front); on another, the British government and the Commonwealth of Nations; on a third, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and its associated guerrilla army, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA); and, on a fourth, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and its armed wing, the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA).
Beginning in 1965, the Rhodesian government implemented a coordinated strategic information and public diplomacy campaign, which included propaganda, censorship, and psychological operations, aiming to maintain the support of the country's black majority in the face of infiltration and indoctrination of ZANLA and ZIPRA, as well as to appeal to the common British populace, which the Rhodesians hoped would begin to question British government policy regarding Rhodesia.
- 1 Information operations
- 2 Political warfare in the Bush War
- 3 Psychological operations
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Information operations[edit]
Rhodesian propaganda efforts in the West[edit]
The Rhodesian government initiated white propaganda efforts—that is, propaganda which truthfully states its origin—in October 1965, with the publishing and dissemination of a pamphlet titled Rhodesia's Case for Independence, which was distributed within Rhodesia and exported to Britain. Rhodesia's Case for Independence was intended to counter the Whitehall claim that Rhodesia's government lacked legitimacy for independence under Britain's recently adopted no independence before majority rule policy. British readers were asked to "support Rhodesians in their hour of need."[1] When Rhodesia issued its Unilateral Declaration of Independence a month later, the very timing of the declaration was intended as propaganda: not only was the document signed on 11 November (Armistice Day), but the official telegram to London was wired at precisely 13:00 Salisbury time – 11:00 in London, the exact moment on Armistice Day when Britain begins the traditional two minutes' silence to honour the dead of the First and Second World Wars.
Specially printed air-letters were distributed to households in areas with high European-connected populations throughout Rhodesia, which they could post to friends and contacts abroad. The air-letters would include a pre-printed message in support of the Rhodesian government with space for the sender to include a personal note.[2] Leaflets were prepared alleging that the British Government and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) were involved in subversive broadcasts to Rhodesia through Zambian radio waves. A number of patriotic organisations including the Rhodesian Front party and the Candour League were encouraged to write to friends overseas and explain Rhodesia's position.[3]
In February 1966, the Rhodesian government expanded its efforts to the United States. They opened an Information Office in Washington and began disseminating bumper stickers displaying the slogan "Support Rhodesia."[4] When both the United Nations and the US government placed sanctions on Rhodesia, the Rhodesian Information Office continued to operate with support from front groups including "The Friends of Rhodesia" (a US-based lobby closely linked to the Rhodesian Information Office) and the "American Rhodesian Association" (a US-based pro-internal settlement force supported by the political Right).[5]
The RF also engaged in black propaganda efforts. Pamphlets purported to come from the "Tudor Rose Society for the Protection of the British Way of Life" (which was later found non-existent) but in fact prepared by the Rhodesians, were posted in England to electors. Some Royal Air Forces personnel in Zambia received copies of a circular letter purporting to come from an organisation called "the British Forces Friends of Rhodesia Association" and headed by a secret group of senior British officers. The letter warned against orders to go into action against "kith and kin in Rhodesia."[6]
Media censorship[edit]
As the Rhodesian government prepared for their autonomy from Britain, it began to limit foreign communication. It began with a weekly radio broadcast prepared by the Ministry of Information, the content of which was "selective and slanted reporting attempted to build up a black picture of the independent African states to the north, combined with an image of Rhodesia, South Africa and the adjacent Portuguese territories as havens of good government and fair play."[7] The Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, a statutory body, was subjected to close Government control. By the end of 1964 Rhodesia Television, an independent commercial station, was taken over by the Government.
British response[edit]
When the British became aware of the propaganda being mailed to their citizens from Rhodesia, they began a counter-campaign. The Rhodesia Political Department of the British Commonwealth Relations Office wrote a paper titled "Rhodesia: The Regime's Propaganda Machine and its Operations."[8] The paper outlined how in May 1964, even before their official declaration of independence, the Rhodesian Government appointed a South African propaganda specialist named Ivor Benson. Benson became a special adviser within the Ministry of Information and it was his task to develop an effective propaganda machine.[9]
Political warfare in the Bush War[edit]
In early 1972 ZANLA, the military branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) led by Robert Mugabe and ZIPRA, the military branch of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) led by Joshua Nkomo, rose up against Smith's minority government. ZANLA and ZIPRA forces began infiltrating Rhodesia, committing acts of murder and terrorism against farmers. The Rhodesian Front received intelligence that ZANLA fighters were operating out of the Chiweshe Tribal Trust Area. Tribal trust areas were large tracts of land prescribed by law to be used and occupied exclusively by the black population of the area.
In response to the violence perpetuated by the ZANLA fighters in the Chiweshe Tribal Trust, the Rhodesian Front created protected villages. Smith's government attempted to relocate 45,000 people and their houses, belongings and livestock, but they were unable to mobilise.[10] Protected villages quickly proved insufficient, forcing people to live without access to food (stores and grinding mills were closed), clean water, or toilets. Shelter was limited and as the cold season arrived, people continuously died from exposure.[11] The Smith government asserted that these conditions were forced by the violence of the ZANLA forces, and that the lack of adequate accommodations was simply caused by their inability to build the infrastructure quickly enough.
ZANU and ZAPU announced a joint "Patriotic Front" and together began infiltrating Rhodesia, committing murder and acts of terrorism against Rhodesians, particularly in the protected villages, with many of the forces living in these protected village as a form of cover. ZANLA and ZIPRA violence escalated to include murder, rape, abduction, torture, beatings, robberies, and cattle-maimings.[12] This escalation in violence and subsequent civil war became known as the Rhodesian Bush War.
Restricted media[edit]
The Rhodesian government again employed tactics of censorship. Rhodesian cameras were banned from protected villages. At the same time, propaganda was being circulated to discourage Rhodesians from talking about conditions inside of the country. Brightly coloured stickers were distributed throughout the country and posted in restaurants and bars.[13] They consisted of a series of slogans focused around self-censorship including:
"Your Tongue Could Pull a Trigger. Think about national security, don't talk about it." Others included "Women's Lib is One Thing, Women's Lip is Another," "What You've Said May Blow Up a Truck," and "An Open Mouth Makes a Big Target. Think about national security, don't talk about it."[14]
In an effort to make the facts known to the outside world, particularly the West, the Rhodesian Government published a series of booklets offering photographic evidence of the terrorist methods used by Patriotic Front military forces:
Massacre of the Innocents[edit]
A pamphlet released by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information proclaims the strength of the security forces and the benefits of the protected villages. "Today, many thousands have taken grateful refuge in protected villages or live in communities protected by the security forces and the para-military wing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."[15] It states that the terrorists are scared of the government forces, and therefore are pursuing "soft targets". The piece goes on to reiterate criticism of the British government for not providing support. "Tragically, the villagers are dying in a war they do not want, waged to further a political creed they do not understand or care about."[16]
Red for Danger[edit]
The Rhodesian Ministry of Information published a booklet titled "Red for Danger". Hundreds of thousands of copies were dispatched to many different countries and it ranked as a best seller.[17] It identifies ZANU and ZAPU political parties as cover organisations for Communist expansion and was an attempt to elicit the help of Western countries actively pursuing containment. The book drew parallels between the Chinese push for Communism in Vietnam, their success in other African countries, and their pursuit of the same goal in Rhodesia through monetary support and training of the ZANU terrorist forces. "The terrorists who have recently been shot or captured in Rhodesia were all thoroughly indoctrinated with the communist ideology. They carried the literature of Mao Tse Tung and more important, they were armed with modern automatic rifles and machine guns of communist manufacture as well as explosives, grenades and powerful bazookas. In fact, recent Australian visitors have been surprised to find that the weapons being used against Rhodesia are of the same pattern as those being used against Australians, New Zealanders and Americans in Vietnam."[18] To make the case for Western involvement, the booklet continues: "Should Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola succumb to communist domination, the southern coast of Africa would follow and the lifeline between the Western powers and the Far East would be cut."[19]
Anatomy of Terror[edit]
Anatomy of Terror was a booklet published by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and circulated by the Rhodesian information office in Washington, D.C. The booklet offers a short summary of the crimes perpetrated by "Communist-trained thugs"[20] followed by a "Chronological Sequence of Terror" which details brutal attacks committed against black Rhodesians from December 1972 to May 1974 and corresponding photographs.
Psychological operations[edit]
Propaganda: Operation Split-Shot[edit]
As the war progressed and the Rhodesian government's control diminished, the 1st Psychological Operations Unit of the RF implemented "Operation Split-Shot." Leaflets were distributed to engender fear among the Rhodesian population. The campaign was focused around the theme of "Terror and death is the way of the communist terrorists in Rhodesia."[21] Leaflets depicted ZANLA/ZIPRA recruiters forcing black Rhodesians into training camps, raping women in front of their children, spreading sexually transmitted diseases, and killing defenceless civilians. These leaflets also depicted military recruits being mistreated and killed by opposition forces.
Propaganda efforts backfired when Rhodesians who voluntarily joined the opposition forces returned to their villages unharmed. According to senior members of the 1st Psychological Operations Unit, the unit was creating their propaganda based on false intelligence.[22] The Rhodesians began to realise that the information presented in the leaflets was false and therefore began to mistrust their government.
As a final effort, PSYOP forces resorted to reporting messages from the spirits to gain credibility with rural tribes. "Mhondoro, your tribal spirit, has sent a message to say that your ancestral spirits are very dissatisfied with you. As a result of this, there has been no rain, your crops have died and there could be great famine. It is only the Government which can help you, but you have to realize your obligation to help the government also."[23] Efforts were unsuccessful, as the source of the propaganda had already lost all credibility.
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 8
- ^ British National Archives: Dominions Office ref: 207/220. "Rhodesia: The Regime's Propaganda Machine and its Operations." Rhodesia Political Department, Commonwealth Relations Office; 16 March 1966.
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 9
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 8
- ^ Holly Sklar "Trilateralism: the Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management" p.393-394
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 111
- ^ British National Archives, Dominions Office ref: 207/220. "Rhodesia: The Regime's Propaganda Machine and its Operations." Rhodesia Political Department, Commonwealth Relations Office; 16 March 1966.
- ^ British National Archives: Dominions Office ref: 207/220. "Rhodesia: The Regime's Propaganda Machine and its Operations." Rhodesia Political Department, Commonwealth Relations Office; 16 March 1966.
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 41
- ^ Rhodesian Army Association. "The Start of the Protected Village Program. Paragraph 4 and 10
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 29
- ^ Rhodesia Ministry of Information, "Anatomy of Terror." Government Printer (Salisbury): 1974. p. 2
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 67
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph 67
- ^ Rhodesia Ministry of Information, "Massacre of the Innocents" Government Printer (Salisbury): 1978. Paragraph 4
- ^ Rhodesia Ministry of Information, "Massacre of the Innocents" Government Printer (Salisbury): 1978. Paragraph 3
- ^ Rhodesian Ministry of Information, "Red for Danger." Paragraph 1
- ^ Rhodesian Ministry of Information, "Red for Danger." Paragraph 21
- ^ Rhodesian Ministry of Information, "Red for Danger." Paragraph 23
- ^ Rhodesia Ministry of Information, "Anatomy of Terror." Government Printer (Salisbury): 1974. p. 2
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph
- ^ SGM Herbert A. Friedman, PSYOP 1965–1980 Paragraph

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Being able to read pet food labels really helps when choosing which food to buy for your cat. It is not a difficult task if you know what you are looking at.This article hopes to simplify what these labels mean, giving you, the carer more power and knowledge to choose the best possible food for your pet.Bear in mind that rules and regulations will vary from country to country, but many will follow the regulations of AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials).
Typically, you will see four parts to the pet food label. The Display Panel (usually the front of the pack), Nutritional Adequacy Statement, Feeding Guidelines, Typical Analysis and the Ingredients panels.
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This is usually the first part of the label you will see on the shop shelf. Typically, it will have the name of the product, have an identifying image so you know the product is for cats, and the weight of the product. It may also specify if the food is a specific type, such as for kittens, senior pets, weight control, oral care etc.
AAFCO have set rules, which are known as '95%, 25%, 3% rules'
- Beef Cat Food - If the product label reads 'beef' then it must contain a minimum of 95% beef (same would obviously apply with chicken etc).
- Beef Dinner/Feast/Platter etc. - If the product label contains a modifier to the name, ie; reads 'dinner, feast, platter' etc., must contain 25% chicken (chicken etc). If more than one product is listed in the name, for example 'Chicken and Veal feast' then the product must contain 25% chicken and veal combined.
- With Beef - If the label reads 'with' beef then it must contain a minimum of 3% beef.
- Beef Flavour - If a label reads 'beef flavour' then it must have detectable amounts of beef, but there is no specific percentage required and it is usually minimal.
Nutritional Adequacy Statement:
This usually includes a statement about the food and feeding instructions. If the product is labelled as 'complete and balanced' then it must meet standards established by the AAFCO and contain ingredients which meet the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profile. This means that the product meets the nutritional requirements of your cat as set out by the AAFCO.
If the product is labelled as 'Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate that Brand Name provides complete and balanced nutrition for the growth and maintenance of cats'. This means that the product has been tested with AAFCO feeding trials.
Guaranteed Analysis:
This lists the minimum percentages of protein and fat and the maximum percentages of fibre. They are listed as crude sources, not digestible sources. Ingredients vary hugely in quality and digestibility.
Dry matter values:
This relates to how much protein is in the food once all the moisture has been removed. Two of the three Australian brands of food I have do not list the moisture content. But let's presume the two tinned varieties contain a moisture content of 80% (which is about average for canned food). To calculate the dry matter minus the percentage of moisture from 100. Then divide this figure by the percentage of protein.
Dry matter percentages of three brands of food:
Brand A - Cheap supermarket tinned food
|Protein 8.5%
|Moisture 80%
|100 - 80 = 20 / 8.5
|= 42.5% dry matter protein
Brand B - Expensive 'gourmet' supermarket tinned food
|Protein 12%
|Moisture 80%
|100 - 80 = 20 / 12
|= 60% dry matter protein
Brand C - Premium dry food
|Protein 32%
|Moisture 10% (as started on pack)
|100 - 10 = 90 / 35.5
|= 39.4% dry matter protein
So, while the premium dry appears to have the highest dry matter protein, Brand B, the expensive 'gourmet' brand actually contains the highest % of dry matter. However, quantity doesn't necessarily translate to quality. Check to see what the first ingredient is on the product. Is it 'meat, meat by-product or something else'?
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We need to bring some manufacturing back to the US...but very carefully. We want skilled jobs that pay a living wage and don't pollute the environment.
I took the bullet train from Shanghai to Nanjing a couple of weeks ago, a journey in a pleasant First Class, sparkling clean rail car at 200 km/hour, for about $30. It's a two-hour journey where you see things you would never see from an airplane.
Along the way, in every direction, are miles and miles of factories. They come in all shapes and sizes - small and squat to miles-long facilities and enormous smokestacks. All of these factories are apparently producing simple assembled products, electronics, plastics, castings and everything you can think of in between. The smokestacks are producing energy to serve China's insatiable appetite for growth.
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei told the G-20 meeting in 2014 that manufacturing accounts for nearly 60% of Chinese GDP, an unsustainable share which has created the problems of pollution and overcapacity, he said. This is very evident as I traveled through the manufacturing areas between Shanghai, Wuxi and Nanjing. The pollution was overwhelming; the skies were thick with a smoky fog and the sun was a muted disk low in the sky. I could smell the air that made my eyes sting and my throat sore. The pollution gets so bad from time to time that people wear surgical masks during the most dangerous periods. I brought along some drugstore surgical masks this time too, as the pollution rates were reported to be off the charts.
This is the Chinese Industrial Revolution on steroids. Europe and the US went through significant periods of pollution as we industrialized our economies. But in China, it is happening very rapidly.
The Chinese government is no longer shying away from or denying allegations of the horrendous air quality. In fact, in the latest government Five Year Plan, China is finally putting real muscle and money into environmental clean-up. I expect to see substantial improvement over the next few years.
Americans need to work on balancing the difference between the Chinese economy supported by 60% manufacturing and the US economy where only 11-12% is based on manufacturing. Manufacturing is the fundamental backbone of a healthy economy. We need to bring some of it back to the US- but very carefully. We want skilled jobs that pay a living wage and don't pollute the environment.
Rebalancing global supply chains is not a step back to your father's manufacturing of the 1960s. Instead, it is a strategic leap forward with manufacturing consideration given to all of your global growth markets. Consider manufacturing the appropriate products in countries where you sell those products, including China, the largest target market in the world.
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text: The Origins of Easter * This study is downloadable for free at: www.EasterTruth.info Easter – What comes to mind? What do you think of when you hear the word "Easter"? Easter – What comes to mind? Easter – What comes to mind? In North American Culture, when someone is speaking of Easter, they are most likely referring to the events surrounding Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. Why is it though, that thoughts of easter eggs, chocolate bunnies, and pastel colours also run through our minds when we hear the term Easter? Easter – What comes to mind? Are these things also related to the events surrounding Jesus' death? Where did they come from and how did they get associated with the celebration we now call Easter? The purpose of this presentation is to find answers to these questions. What does the Bible say? As Bible believing Christians, it would make sense to start this search in God's Holy Word, the Bible. "Easter" in the Bible? Is the word 'Easter' found in the Bible? The word "Easter" is not found at all in most Bibles, including the NKJV, NIV, NASB, NLT, ESV, CEV, NCV, ASV, YLT, TNIV and many others. "Easter" in the KJV? However, It is found once in the King James Version of the Bible (in Acts 12:4). "And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people." (Acts 12:4 KJV) "Passover" – In the KJV? Using Strong's Exhaustive Concordance: The word "Passover" occurs 77 times in the KJV of the Bible. 49 times in the Old Testament as -> Strong's #6453 – 'pesach' 28 times in the New Testament as -> Strong's #3957 – 'pascha' Easter (KJV) = Passover? The word "Easter" that appears in Acts 12:4 in the KJV of the Bible is also Strong's Greek word #3957 – 'pascha', which means passover. The scholars that translated the KJV of the Bible, translated the word pascha as passover 28 times in the New Testament and then in Acts 12:4 they decided to translate it as easter. Easter (KJV) = Passover? The word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 in the KJV of the Bible is clearly a mistranslation of the Greek word "pascha". "Pascha" should be properly translated as "Passover" and is done so in most other translations. Easter (KJV) = Passover? "...intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people." (Acts 12:4 KJV) "...intending to bring him before the people after Passover." (Acts 12:4 NKJV) "...Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover." (Acts 12:4 NIV) "...intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people." (Acts 12:4 ESV) Pascha mistranslation… "Pascha ... mistranslated 'Easter' in Acts 12:4, KJV, denotes the Passover ... The term 'Easter' is not of Christian origin." - Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, 1985, p. 192, "Easter". Pascha mistranslation… "As surprising as this may sound, nowhere in the New Testament can you find any reference to Easter. In the King James Version of the Bible (in Acts 12:4) you do find the word Easter, but it is a blatantly erroneous mistranslation that has been corrected in virtually every other Bible translation. The original Greek word there is pascha, correctly translated Passover in virtually every modern version of the Bible everywhere it appears in the Scriptures." - "Would Jesus Keep Easter?" by Jerold Aust (http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn75/easter.htm) Pascha mistranslation… How did such a large mistranslation come about? "The King James Version Bible was written by scholars whose orientation was toward Catholic and Anglican church doctrines, and this caused some of the errors in translation i.e., the translation of the Greek word pascha, which means 'passover', as "Easter" in Acts 12:4." - Biblestudy.org (http://www.biblestudy.org/question/what-does-the-word-easter-mean.html) Where did "Easter" come from? Where did this term come from and what does it mean? So far, we have learned that the term "Easter" is not truely found in the Bible. Let us turn to the dictionnaries to see what they say about the term "Easter". Easter - Definition Easter: n. festival (held on a variable Sunday in March or April) commemorating Christ's resurrection. [Old English] - The Oxford Dictionary of Current English, New Edition, "Easter" Easter - Definition Easter: A Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus. [from Old English : Eastre ] - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000), "Easter" Easter - Definition Easter: \Eas'ter\, n. [AS. e['a]ster, e['a]stran, paschal feast, Easter; akin to G. ostern; fr. Anglo-Saxon. E['a]stre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated in April; - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), "Easter" Easter - Definition "The word Easter may come from Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of Spring and fertility, whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox." - "Easter Word Origins" from Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/features/easter.html) Easter - Definition "According to the eighth-century theologian the Venerable Bede (who came up with the dating system of AD and BC), Easter is named for Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. She is associated with the egg and with the hare, both symbols of procreation that have been enduringly incorporated by the church in the form of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny who brings them." - "Easter", from Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/easter) Easter - Definition "Easter, Ostara, or Ishtar was the goddess of Spring in the religion of the ancient Angles and Saxons. Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor. With the beginnings of Christianity, the old gods were put aside. From then on the festival was celebrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ, but was still known as Easter after the old goddess." - "Easter", from The Encyclopedia Britannica (1934) Easter - Definitions Though we use the term (or name) "Easter" to refer to Jesus' death and resurrection "Easter" is clearly not connected with any sort of Hebrew or Christian origins. The term is derived from the name of an ancient pagan goddess (Eostre, Ostara, Ishtar) and has no relation whatsoever to the events surrounding Jesus' death. In other Languages Upon studying the terms used to refer to the events surrounding Jesus' death and resurrection in other languages, we find that they use terms that are slightly more meaningful than the term "Easter" (pagan goddess of spring) that we use in English. Great Day or Great Night In some languages the term used is "Great Day" or "Great Night". Examples include: Bulgarian: Velikden Czech: Velikonoce Latvian: Lieldienas Polish: Wielkanoc Slovak: Velka Noc Slovenian: Velika no Ukrainian: Vjalikdzen Resurrection Day or Festival In others it is translated as "Resurrection", "Resurrection Day" or "Resurrection Festival". Some examples include: Croatian: Uskrs Chinese: Fuhuo Jie Korean: Buhwalchol Bosnian: Uskrs or Vaskrs Serbian: Uskrs or Vaskrs Vietnamese: Le Phuc Sinh Lakota: Woekicetuanpetu Taking what? In some languages the term used is quite peculiar: Hungarian: Husvet (literally "taking, or buying meat") Estonian: Lihavõtted (literally "meat taking") Pesach or Passover However, in most other languages, the term used for the events surrounding Jesus' death and resurrection is more precisely derived from "Pesach", the Hebrew term for Passover. Some examples include: Pesach / Pascha / Passover Hebrew: Pesach Greek: Pascha French: Pâques Italian: Pasqua Spanish: Pascua Portuguese: Pascoa Romanian: Paste Russian: Paskha Polish: Pascha Japanese: Seidai Pasuha Albanian: Pashket Danish: Paske Finnish: Paasiainen Icelandic: Paskar Norwegian: Paske Swedish: Pask Irish: Caisc Turkish: Paskalya Indonesian: Paskah Persian: Pas'h Why do we still use "Easter" ? Almost every other language uses a relevant term when it refers to the events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus. Why is it that we, English speaking Christians, still use the name of a pagan goddess to refer to this sacred event? Calculating the date of Easter When is Easter? It is on a different date each year. Always on a Sunday Always in the Spring Most people just check a calendar Calculating the date of Easter "Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after." - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Calculating the date of Easter "The day on which this feast is observed, the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox." - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Spring or Vernal Equinox Equinox is latin for "Equal Night" When daytime equals nighttime Calculating the date of Easter "Though the New Testament contains no reference to an annual feast celebrating the Resurrection, the practice was well-established by the second century. Early churchmen were divided on whether to hold a feast on 14 Nisan (the date of the Biblical Pesach, which morphed into the name for Easter in many languages) or on the following Sunday; disputes and excommunications ensued in this Quartodeciman controversy until the Council of Nicea in 325 decided it must fall on a Sunday. Eventually the date was formulated roughly as "the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox." This can range between March 22 and April 25." - Easter, from Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/easter) Calculating the date of Easter "Easter Sunday typically falls on a different date each year. Easter is always the first Sunday after or on the first full moon, after the spring (vernal) Equinox. The first Ecumenical Council was held at Nicea in present-day Turkey in the year 325. It decreed that Easter would be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon that occurred after the spring equinox. This retained a lunar connection as a sort of 'memory' of the Jewish calendar system, and ensured that the feast would be on a Sunday. Because lunar phases occur independently of the solar year, this means that there is a 'window' of several weeks during which Easter may be celebrated. By this reckoning, in our calendar, Easter must occur between March 22 and April 25." - How is the Date for Easter Calculated, From WikiAnswers (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_the_date_for_Easter_calculated_each_year) Calculating the date of Easter "The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) set the date of Easter as the Sunday following the 14th day of the paschal full moon, which is the full moon whose 14th day falls on or after the vernal (spring) equinox. We know that Easter must always occur on a Sunday, because Sunday was the day of Christ's Resurrection. But why the 14th day of the paschal full moon? Because that was the date of Passover in the Jewish calendar, and the Last Supper (Holy Thursday) occurred on the Passover. Therefore, Easter was the Sunday after Passover." - How Is the Date of Easter Calculated? By Scott P. Richert (http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/f/Calculate_Date.htm) Calculating the date of Easter "The rule of Rome was that the celebration must always be on a Sunday - the Sunday nearest to the fourteenth day of the first month of the Jewish year. And if the fourteenth day of that month should itself be a Sunday, then the celebration was not to be held on that day, but upon the next Sunday. One reason of this was not only to be as like the heathen as possible, but to be as unlike the Jews as possible." - A.T. Jones, The Two Republics, p.214 What some might be thinking… Why does the calculation of the date of easter need to be so complicated? What was the original method of calculating it and why did it change? And what is with the constant connection with Jesus' death and the Passover? Isn't the Passover a Jewish thing? What does the Bible say? Passover in The Old Testament "It is the LORD's passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." (Exodus 12:11-14 KJV) Passover in The Old Testament "Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb." (Exodus 12:21 NKJV) "That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses." (Exodus 12:27 KJV) Passover in The Old Testament "Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves." (Exodus 12:37-39 NKJV) Passover in The Old Testament "These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover." (Leviticus 23:4-5 KJV) Passover in The Old Testament "Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it." (Numbers 9:2-3 KJV) Passover in The Old Testament "And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land." (Numbers 9:14 KJV) Passover in The Old Testament God commanded all believers (Israelites and strangers) to keep the passover, which was to be observed on 14th day of the first month (Abib/Nisan) of the biblical Hebrew calendar. They were to select a perfect lamb without blemish and then it was to be sacrificed. They celebrated this as a memorial of what God did to save them from the plagues and bondage in Egypt. Passover is an important event "The annual festivals commanded by God all prefigured some event relating to the Messiah. Also, something worthy of mention is that each of the festivals which have been fulfilled met their fulfillment on the actual day of celebration. That is to say, Christ was sacrificed as our paschal lamb on the day of Passover. Christ presented Himself before the Father on the day of Firstfruits. These parallels hold true to each of the holidays. Type met anti-type on the very same day, and it was all fulfilled in that day." - Atoning for the Day of Atonement, by Raymond Thompson, 20 April 2008 (http://www.spectrummagazine.org/collegiate/2008/04/20/atoning_day_atonement) Passover in The New Testament Jesus observed the passover from his childhood. "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he [Jesus] was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast." (Luke 2:41-42 KJV) Passover in The New Testament Jesus knew exactly when and how He would die. "And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified." (Matthew 26:1-2 KJV) What event is this? Passover in The New Testament "Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." So they said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare?" And He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"' Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready." So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover." (Luke 22:7-13 NKJV) Passover in The New Testament "When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. Then He said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you." (Luke 22:14-20 NKJV) Some might be thinking…. Hey… that's not Passover. That's just communion. We do that all the time You know, whenever we feel like it Some people do it daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly There's no rule for that Passover in The New Testament "The Passover meal Jesus ate with the disciples was without the paschal lamb because the Savior wanted to institute a new Passover meal commemorative of His redemption from sin through bread and wine, the new symbols of His own body and blood soon to be offered 'for the forgiveness of sins' (Matt 26:28)." - Theologian Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festivals in Scripture and History Part 2 - The Fall Festivals, 1996, p.33 What else took place during this observance of the yearly Passover feast that Jesus and the apostles took part in? Passover in The New Testament "Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." " (John 13:1-8 NKJV) Passover in The New Testament "Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean." So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them." (John 13:9-17 NKJV) Passover in The New Testament If we weren't taught otherwise, we would almost think that Jesus was telling the apostles (and all believers) to continue observing the passover But from then on to do it how He did it that day (with the footwashing, and eating of unleavened bread and drinking wine). And every time we celebrate this Passover event (i.e. yearly), we should do so in remembrance of Him and His awesome Sacrifice for us. Passover in The New Testament The apostle Paul also indicated that we should still be keeping the feast of Passover: "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." (1 Corinthians 5:7-8 KJV) Passover in The New Testament "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come." (1 Corinthians 11:23-29 KJV) Passover in The New Testament "The meaning of the Christian Passover is both commemorative and prefigurative, just like the Old Testament Passover. On the one hand, it commemorates the past deliverance from bondage and sin through Christ's suffering and death. On the other hand, it prefigures the future celebration of the marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev 19:9) at the establishment of God's Kingdom. Christ Himself alluded to the eschatological fulfillment of Passover when He said to the disciples that He would not eat Passover again 'until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God' (Luke 22:16)." - Theologian Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festivals in Scripture and History - Part 2 - The Fall Festivals, p.33 Summary from the Bible… Easter is not found in the Bible at all Passover is found all over the Bible Easter was not celebrated by Jesus Passover was celebrated by Jesus Easter observance was not commanded by Jesus or anyone else in the Bible Passover observance was to be done in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice Jesus is our Example "For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps" (1 Peter 2:21 NKJV) Reality Check Time… Wait a second now… If all this is true, then wouldn't the early Christians have kept the Passover? And if so, would they have observed it on the Jewish Passover date or the date we now observe as Easter Sunday? The Early Christians "The earliest Christians celebrated the Lord's Passover at the same time as the Jews, during the night of the first full moon of the first month of spring (Nisan 14-15). By the middle of the 2nd century, most churches had transferred this celebration to the Sunday after the Jewish feast. But certain churches of Asia Minor clung to the older custom, for which they were denounced as 'judaizing'. The first ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 decreed that all churches should observe the feast together on a Sunday" - The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. 4, pp. 604-605, "Church Year". The Early Christians "There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians." - Encyclopedia Britannica, volume VIII, p.859. The Early Christians "Some church historians assert that Easter observance began in the first century (CE), but they must admit that their first evidence for the observance comes from the second century." - BibleWorld.com (http://www.bibleworld.com/easter.pdf) The Early Christians "By the later second century, it was accepted that the celebration of Pascha was a practice of the disciples and an undisputed tradition. The Quartodeciman controversy, the first of several Paschal/Easter controversies, then arose concerning the date on which Pascha should be celebrated. The term "Quartodeciman" refers to the practice of celebrating Pascha or Easter beginning on Nisan 14 of the Hebrew calendar, "the LORD's passover" (Leviticus 23:5)." - Easter, from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter) The Early Christians "The Quartodecimans contentiously keep Passover on one day, once per year...They keep the Passover on whichever day the fourteenth of the month falls...Christ had to be slain on the fourteenth of the month in accordance with the law" - Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide. Section IV, Verses 1,3;1,6;2,6. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, pp. 23-25). The Early Christians "There is no doubt that Apollinarius was a Quartodeciman...Those who kept Passover in the evening understood it to be a repetition of the Lord's Supper" - Stewart-Sykes A. Melito of Sardis On Pascha. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood (NY), 2001, p. 81). The Early Christians "In Asia Minor most people kept the fourteenth day of the moon...Moreover the Quartodecimans affirm that the observance of the fourteenth day was delivered to them by the apostle John" - Socrates Scholasticus. Ecclesiastical History, Book V, Chapter XXII. Excerpted from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 2. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. American Edition, 1890. Online Edition Copyright © 2005 by K. Knight. The Early Christians "Audians...they choose to celebrate the Passover with the Jews--that is they contentiously celebrate the Passover at the same time as the Jews are holding their Festival of Unleavened Bread. And indeed that this used to be the church's custom" - Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide. Section VI, Verses 8,11; 9,2. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, pp. 410-411. The Early Christians "It is not known how long the Nisan 14 practice continued. But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday (the Sunday of Unleavened Bread) had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival accordingly. By the later 3rd century, however, some Christians began to express dissatisfaction with the custom of relying on the Jewish community to determine the date of Easter. The chief complaint was that the Jewish communities sometimes set their week of Unleavened Bread to fall before the spring equinox" - Easter, from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter) The Early Christians "Anicetus argued for Easter while Polycarp, a student of the apostle John, defended observing 'the Christian Passover, on the 14th of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, regardless of the day of the week' " - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Micropaedia, Vol. 8, p. 94, "Polycarp". The Early Christians "The actual introduction of Easter-Sunday appears to have occurred earlier in Palestine after Emperor Hadrian ruthlessly crushed the Barkokeba revolt (A.D. 132-135)... The fact that the Passover controversy arose when Emperor Hadrian adopted new repressive measures against Jewish religious practices suggests that such measures influenced the new Gentile hierarchy to change the date of Passover from Nisan 14 to the following Sunday (Easter-Sunday) in order to show separation and differentiation from the Jews and the Jewish Christians" - Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festival in Scripture and History, 1995, pp. 101-103 The Early Christians "A whole body of 'Against the Jews' literature was produced by leading Fathers who defamed the Jews as a people and emptied their religious beliefs and practices of any historical value. Two major causalities of the anti-Jewish campaign were Sabbath and Passover. The Sabbath was changed to Sunday and Passover was transferred to Easter-Sunday. Scholars usually recognize the anti-Judaic motivation for the repudiation of the Jewish reckoning of Passover and adoption of Easter-Sunday instead. Joachim Jeremias attributes such a development to 'the inclination to break away from Judaism.' In a similar vein, J.B. Lightfoot explains that Rome and Alexandria adopted Easter-Sunday to avoid 'even the semblance of Judaism'" - Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festival in Scripture and History, 1995, pp. 101-103 Quote from Polycrates… "We observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away… Among these are Philip, one of the twelve apostles, ... and, moreover, John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord,... And Polycarp in Smyrna, who was a bishop and martyr... All these observed the fourteenth day of the passover according to the Gospel, deviating in no respect, but following the rule of faith. And I also, Polycrates, the least of you all, do according to the tradition of my relatives… And my relatives always observed the day when the people put away the leaven… For those greater than I have said 'We ought to obey God rather than man'." - Eusebius. Church History, Book V, Chapter 24. Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert. The Early Christians "Originally both observances [Passover and Easter] were allowed, but gradually it was felt incongruous that Christians should celebrate Easter on a Jewish feast, and unity in celebrating the principal Christian feast was called for" - The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 5, p. 8, "Easter Controversy". The Emperor Constantine - Quote from Constantine "The commemoration of the most sacred paschal feast being then debated, it was unanimously decided, that it would be well that it should be everywhere celebrated upon the same day... It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. By rejecting their custom, we establish and hand down to succeeding ages one which is more reasonable... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. For we have received from our Saviour another way" - Theodoret of Cyrus. Ecclesiastical History (Book I), Chapter IX. Excerpted from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 3. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. American Edition, 1892. Online Edition Copyright © 2005 by K. Knight. Reflections on that Quote… "Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. For we have received from our Saviour another way" – Constantine's quote from the previous slide I don't know what Constantine was drinking, but the Bible tells us exactly what Jesus asked us to do And the last time I checked, worshipping on Easter Sunday was not one of them Someone should also have informed Constantine that Jesus was Himself a Jew Death Penalty… "Edicts of Theodosius against the heretics, A.D. 380-394...Theodosius...decreed that...by the death of the offender; and the same capital punishment was inflicted on the Audians, or Quartodecimans, who should dare to perpetrate the atrocious crime of celebrating on an improper day the festival" - Gibbon E. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Chapter XXVII. ca. 1776-1788. The Early Christians "The early development of the celebration of Easter and the attendant calendar disputes were largely a result of Christianity's attempt to emancipate itself from Judaism. Sunday had already replaced the Jewish sabbath early in the second century, and despite efforts in Asia Minor to maintain the Jewish passover date of 14 Nisan for Easter [or, rather, the true Passover] (hence the name Quartodecimans [meaning 'Fourteeners']), the Council of Nicaea adopted the annual Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox (March 21)" - R.K. Bishop quote, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 1984, Editor: Walter Elwell, "Easter". The Early Christians "From Rome there came now another addition to the sunworshipping apostasy. The first Christians being mostly Jews, continued to celebrate, in remembrance of the death of Christ, the true Passover; and this was continued among those who from among the Gentiles had turned to Christ. Accordingly, the celebration was always on the Passover day, the fourteenth of the first month. Rome, however, and from her all the West, adopted the day of the sun as the day of this coloration. According to the Eastern custom, the celebration, being on the fourteenth day of the month, would of course fall on different days of the week as the years resolved. The rule of Rome was that the celebration must always be on a Sunday." - A.T. Jones, Great Empires of Prophecy, 1898, p.389 Easter Customs…. Bible has no record of Jesus or the apostles observing an Easter Sunday service, dying easter eggs or going on an easter egg hunt The early Christians originally observed the Passover as a memorial of Jesus' sacrifice Constatine and the church at Rome decided to change the Passover to Easter Sunday But where did the easter bunny, easter egg and other easter customs come from? Easter Customs…. "As with almost all 'Christian' holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication. Since its conception as a holy celebration in the second century, Easter has had its non-religious side. In fact, Easter was originally a pagan festival." - The Traditions of Easter, by Jerry Wilson (http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm) Easter Customs…. "The reasons for celebrating our major feasts when we do are many and varied. In general, however, it is true that many of them have at least an indirect connection with the pre-Christian [pagan] feasts celebrated about the same time of year — feasts centering around the harvest, the rebirth of the sun at the winter solstice (now Dec. 21, but Dec. 25 in the old Julian calendar), the renewal of nature in spring, and so on." - The New Question Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen, M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers, Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554. Easter Customs…. "The early church fathers were also careful to emphasize that Christian holidays should be very unlike pagan holidays. They were to be characterized by solemnity and decorum, in sharp contrast to the riotousness of pagan celebrations... Even more important to these early writers was that Christians stay away from pagan celebrations themselves, disobedience of which seems to have been a rather common occurance... Despite this early concern about paganism infiltrating Christianity, it seems that Christians began to develop a different perspective on the matter of pagan holidays. Rather than seen as a threat to Christianity, pagan holidays and customs came to be viewed as a way to encourage and ease conversion to Christianity." - History of Christian Holidays. (http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/holidays/history.htm) Easter Customs…. "Eostre was the Saxon version of the Germanic lunar goddess Ostara. She gave her name to the Christian Easter and to the female hormone estrogen. Her feast day was held on the full moon following the vernal equinox -- almost the identical calculation as for the Christian Easter in the west. One delightful legend associated with Eostre was that she found an injured bird on the ground one winter. To save its life, she transformed it into a hare. But 'the transformation was not a complete one. The bird took the appearance of a hare but retained the ability to lay eggs. ..the hare would decorate these eggs and leave them as gifts to Eostre.'" - Linkages between the equinox, Pagan celebrations & Easter (http://www.religioustolerance.org/spequi2.htm) Easter Customs…. "Many Easter customs come from the Old World...colored eggs and rabbits have come from pagan antiquity as symbols of new life...our name 'Easter' comes from 'Eostre', an ancient Anglo Saxon goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honor. Some Easter customs have come from this and other pre-christian spring festivals." - Compton's Encyclopedia, 1956, Volume 4, "Easter" Easter Customs…. "In time an elaborate system of beliefs in such natural forces was developed into mythology. Each civilization and culture had its own mythological structure, but the structures were often quite similar. The names of the gods may have been different, but their functions and actions were often the same. The most prominent myth to cross cultural lines was that of the fertility cycle. Many pagan cultures believed that the god of fertility died each year during the winter but was reborn each year in the spring. The details differed among cultures, but the main idea was the same" - Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1995, "Gods, Pagan," p. 508 Easter Customs…. "The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. They believed an old fable about an egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates River. From this marvelous egg - according to the ancient story - the Goddess Ishtar (Semiramis), was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter" - The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, p. 309. Bottecelli's "Birth of Venus" Easter Customs…. "As Romans became familiar with the Greek myths of Aphrodite, they increasingly identified Venus with that goddess. They also linked Venus with other foreign goddesses, such as the Babylonian Ishtar. One result of this connection was the naming of the planet Venus, which Babylonian astronomers had earlier associated with Ishtar." - Encyclopedia of Myths, "Venus" (http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Tr-Wa/Venus.html) Easter Customs…. "The egg has become a popular Easter symbol. Creation myths of many ancient peoples center in a cosmogenic egg from which the universe is born. In ancient Egypt and Persia friends exchanged decorated eggs at the spring equinox, the beginning of their New Year. These eggs were a symbol of fertility for them because the coming forth of a live creature from an egg was so surprising to people of ancient times. Christians of the Near East adopted this tradition, and the Easter egg became a religious symbol. It represented the tomb from which Jesus came forth to new life" - Greg Dues, Catholic Customs and Traditions, 1992, p. 101 Easter Customs…. "The origin of the Easter egg is based on the fertility lore of the Indo-European races ... The Easter bunny had its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. Hare and rabbit were the most fertile animals our fore-fathers knew, serving as symbols of abundant new life in the spring season" - Francis Weiser, professor of philosophy at Boston College, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs, 1958 , pp. 233, 236. Easter Customs…. "As at Christmas, so also at Easter, popular customs reflect many ancient pagan survivals—in this instance, connected with spring fertility rites, such as the symbols of the Easter egg and the Easter hare or rabbit" - The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. 4, p. 605, "Church Year". Easter Customs…. "Motives of the same sort may have led the ecclesiastical authorities to assimilate the Easter festival of the death and resurrection of their Lord to the festival of the death and resurrection of another Asiatic god which fell at the same season. Now the Easter rites still observed in Greece, Sicily and southern Italy bear in some respects a striking resemblance to the rites of Adonis, and I have suggested that the Church may have consciously adapted the new festival to its heathen predecessor for the sake of winning souls to Christ" - Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1993, p. 359. Easter Customs…. "When we reflect how often the Church has skillfully contrived to plant the seeds of the new faith on the old stock of paganism, we may surmise that the Easter celebration of the dead and risen Christ was grafted upon a similar celebration of the dead and risen Adonis [the Greek name for Tammuz], which ... was celebrated in Syria at the same season" - Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1993, p. 345. Easter Customs…. "Easter is different. The very name comes from the Babylonian fertility goddess Ishtar, and the main attractions are eggs and rabbits, symbols of fertility. There's a tradition that colored eggs originated in the dyeing of eggs with the blood of newly sacrificed children, whose lives were given in the hope of a plentiful harvest. I can't think of anything more repulsive to God. The date of Resurrection Morning is well known. It's the Jewish Feast of Firstfruits. It's by far the most important event in human history and deserves our full attention in a heart felt expression of praise and thanksgiving." (continued…) Easter Customs…. "We might be able to convince God that we didn't know the date of His birth, but we have no such excuse with His resurrection. Various pagan groups have made headlines lately accusing Christians of hijacking their holidays. Sometimes I think that the only way to re-focus our attention on the reason for their celebration is to give them back and to the best of our ability memorialize the days on which the events we revere actually took place." - The Pagan Origin of Christian Holidays (http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/the-pagan-origin-of-christian-holidays/) Easter – a pagan holiday? "So, once I got started reflecting on how Pagan holidays had been kidnapped, I then thought of the old Pagan holiday Eoster, where the return of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eoster from the Land of the Dead bringing Spring in Her wake was celebrated. For centuries this Pagan celebration's rituals included things like Eoster eggs, the Eoster hare (or bunny for us Americans) , and decorating our houses with Eoster lilies and other beautiful flowers in celebration. I think it's only fair to talk about how we Pagans were there first, and how we'd like to get some credit for all the Pagan contributions involved when other folks celebrate the return of their own particular Redeemer from Death with our borrowed trappings when springtime comes around." (continued…) Easter – a pagan holiday? "But of course, now it's time for the big one – Yule. You know, celebrating with Yule logs, and holly, and mistletoe (not to mention the stolen kisses!) . Singing those old Yule time carols. Putting up the evergreen Yule tree and decorating it. Drinking a lot of mead - or these days, spiced cider or spiked eggnog. Giving presents. Lots of presents. The Sun [pause] of God being born with the New Year. Gathering together and celebrating with family and friends…did I mention drinking a lot? Yule's a GREAT Pagan holiday! Yes, my friends, the Puritans were right – Yule (by any other name smelling as sweet) is definitely NOT a Christian holiday." - We Want them Back! (A Pagan View of the Holidays), by Bluehawk, December 18th 2005 (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usga&c=holidays&id=10378) Easter – a pagan holiday? Ostara (March 21st): As spring reaches its midpoint, night and day stand in perfect balance. (With light on the increase.) The young Sun God now celebrates a sacred marriage with the young maiden Goddess, who conceives. In nine months she will again become the Great Mother. It is a time of great fertility and growth, and newborn animals. Ostara is the time of Fertility of the Earth. Other Names: Eostre and Spring Equinox. - A Beginner's Guide To The 8 Wiccan Holidays Author: Silver Wolf Posted: October 28th. 2007 (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usor&c=holidays&id=11776) Easter – a pagan holiday? Yule (December 21st): Yule has the longest night and the shortest day of the year. It is the time when the Goddess gives birth to a son, the God. Witches and Wiccans celebrate the Festival of the God's Rebirth. It is a time to honor the Holly King. Accomplishes of the past, love, togetherness, and love are also celebrated. These things are celebrated by burning the Yule Log in a bonfire. Other Names: Winter Solstice, Christmas, Alban Arthan, Finn's Day, Festival of Sol, Yuletide, Great Day of the Cauldron, and the Festival of Growth. - A Beginner's Guide To The 8 Wiccan Holidays Author: Silver Wolf Posted: October 28th. 2007 (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usor&c=holidays&id=11776) Easter – a pagan holiday? "Ostara or Oestara... also known as the Spring Equinox, Ostara falls on 21 March. Ostara is sacred to the Ancient Goddess Eostar or Astarte, whose symbols are the egg and hare and who give rise to the term Oestrus. She is probably the oldest Goddess of fertility and can be traced back over 4, 000 years. Ostara is the first sign of spring; it also is the Witches' version of Easter. It is a time to celebrate that spring is here and that the land is alive." - How to Get the Most Out of Your Year, by Merlin EA, August 20th, 2006 (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ukgb2&c=holidays&id=10898) Can it get any closer to home? Something to think about…. Without a doubt, the worship of Easter is of pagan origin and there are still people today, even in modern cities, that observe the purely pagan worship of the goddess of spring. Anyone professing to be a Bible believing Christian would admit that is totally wrong and an abomination to God. Something to think about…. However, most people still observe Easter, not as a pagan celebration, but in remembrance of the death and resurrection of Jesus even though there is no biblical command to do so. They also use the date that Constantine and the church at Rome declared for this celebration at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. They also often use symbols and activities that are directly taken from pagan worship and then use them to worship the true God. Some might be thinking… Who cares? What's the big deal anyway? Does it really matter how and when we worship this sacred event? We know that we are worshipping Jesus' death and resurrection and that's all that matters, right? What does the Bible say? Regarding Worship… "Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.' You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way" (Deuteronomy 12:30-31 NKJV) Regarding Worship… The very next verse states: "Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it." (Deuteronomy 12:32 NKJV) Regarding Worship… "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain" (Jeremiah 10:2-3 KJV) Regarding Worship… Clearly, not all forms of worship are acceptable to God. Here are some examples: Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:3-5) Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1-10) All involved claimed to worship the True God But what was God's reaction? "That My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them." (Exodus 32:10 NKJV) Faith delivered to the saints… "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (Jude 1:3 KJV) Regarding Worship… "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him" (1 Kings 18:21 NKJV) Whom will you serve… "And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24:15 NKJV) Whom will you serve? The End! Thank you for your time! Any Questions? Compiled by: FLO BORS (April 2009) email: email@example.com


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Earlier this month, Syracuse assistant Bernie Fine was accused of sexual molestation by former ball boys Bobby Davis and Mike Lang. Coach Jim Boeheim immediately declared Fine innocent, defending his longtime friend. He also attacked the allegations as "a bunch of a thousand lies" and surmised that the accusers were motivated by financial gain, two damning character attacks.
Boeheim had the right to defend his friend. His counter allegations against Davis and Lang were over the top, but that was Boeheim's right also.
He went all in with Bernie Fine, choosing to take the fight right to the court of public opinion, preferring to not wait for the legal process to play out.
Now comes an explosive and troubling 2002 taped conversation between Davis and Fine's wife, Laurie. It comes on the heels of a third accuser, Zach Tomaselli, telling police he also was molested by Fine, in his case in a Pittsburgh hotel room in 2002.
Yet, Syracuse University said Sunday that Boeheim "is not commenting further on the subject at this time," which simply isn't good enough. You can't come out that strong at first and then go silent now.
[Related: Syracuse fires assistant Bernie Fine amid scandal]
Sunday, ESPN played a tape of a 2002 phone conversation between Davis and Laurie Fine, which appears to confirm she knew Bernie Fine had abused Davis starting when he was a teenager and even that there were other cases.
"I know everything that went on, you know," Laurie Fine said on the tape. "I know everything that went on with him.
"Bernie has issues, maybe that he's not aware of, but he has issues … And you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted … Bernie is also in denial. I think that he did the things he did, but he's somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased them out of his mind."
Later, Laurie Fine states that she believes there were other victims also.
"Do you think I'm the only one that he's ever done that to?" Davis asked.
"No … I think there might have been others but it was geared to … there was something about you," Laurie Fine said.
"Yeah, that's what I'm wondering," Davis said. "Like I'm wondering why I was like the worst one."
"I don't know," Laurie Fine said.
Later, the two discuss that Davis and Bernie Fine never had oral sex.
"I think he would want to, but …" Davis said.
"Oh, of course he would. Why wouldn't he?" Laurie Fine said.
The story gets even more bizarre. Davis said, and Laurie Fine appears to acknowledge, that the two of them had a sexual relationship when Davis was 18. Davis said he told Bernie Fine about it.
Later on the tape, Laurie Fine appears to explain why she never came forward or confronted Bernie about the abuse.
"Because I care about you, and I didn't want to see you being treated that way …," Laurie Fine said.
"Yeah," said Davis.
"And, it's hard …," Fine said. "If it was another girl like I told you, it would be easy to step in because you know what you're up against. … (When) it's another guy, you can't compete with that. It's just wrong, and you were a kid. You're a man now, but you were a kid then."
The strength of the tape in an actual court of law remains to be seen. It may not be admissible. It may not even be relevant. ESPN aired just chosen snippets of the conversation and Laurie Fine has not come out and explained why she said what she said or the context of the quotes.
You have to allow for the presumption of not just innocence, but of an explanation.
Whether Fine is even charged with any crimes remains to be seen. The Davis and Lang cases could be outside the statute of limitations and don't appear to be airtight anyway. The third alleged accuser has, at this time, no corroborating evidence, although federal agents raided Fine's home over the weekend.
Fine has denied he ever did anything wrong and survived a previous investigation by Syracuse University.
[Related: Taperecorded call between former Bernie Fine and third accuser surfaces]
Legally, this case has a long way to go. It is worth repeating and repeating and repeating that this isn't the Jerry Sandusky case. That became public after a three-year state police investigation led to the state attorney general and a grand jury charging Sandusky with 40 counts of abuse.
These are just early accusations. The investigation is still in its beginning stages.
That said, just as Boeheim had the right to use his bully pulpit to defend, he now has the obligation to explain his thoughts on the released tape.
It is an astounding listen and one that appears to severely damage the word of Bernie Fine and strengthen that of Bobby Davis. The wife of the accused appears to have confirmed the abuse.
When this first broke, Boeheim said Davis and Lang were lying. He said they were ruining a good man for money. He's trashed them repeatedly to help defend his assistant.
He could've come out and thrown his full support behind Fine, asked for patience to allow the legal process to come out and avoided going after Davis and Lang. That would've been perfectly acceptable.
Instead, he took it further and chose to attack, attack, attack.
Now here's Laurie Fine doing more damage than anything we've heard before. Boeheim set this game up in the court of public opinion, where his voice carries considerable power.
Now as the questions mount, he can't change the rules. What does he say about Bernie Fine now? What's his explanation for all of this?


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