Thread: Baby got Book!!!

I'm not one for religious copying of secular songs, but....this was just too funny....watch the whole thing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EobF2TM9Fig

That was funny and clever as hell. Joe

*twitch*

Yeah, I'm not even opening this discussion.

heh. I remember hearing about this a long time ago. I'm not religious either, but this certainly falls under the "clever and different" category.

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

I'm not one for religious copying of secular songs, but....

It's actually more common than you would think. Many of the older hymns written a couple hundred years ago were songs that were secular but Christians re-wrote/changed/added the lyrics to reach a broader audience. People recognized the tune so it was easier to get them involved in singing it.

Originally Posted by ImitationMan

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

I'm not one for religious copying of secular songs, but....

It's actually more common than you would think. Many of the older hymns written a couple hundred years ago were songs that were secular but Christians re-wrote/changed/added the lyrics to reach a broader audience. People recognized the tune so it was easier to get them involved in singing it.

See Also: Hollidays, Imagery

Originally Posted by Manse

See Also: Hollidays, Imagery

Can't argue with that.

Holidays like Christmas (winter Solstice) and Easter (the name, the eggs) were the result of the Roman empire's making Christianity the national religion while not replacing the previous belief system. They just mixed it all together.

Christianity and Judaism never had a rule that priest's couldn't marry. Only one of the 12 tribes of Israel was given the task of caring for the Tabernacle. If you weren't a Levite, you couldn't work in the temple. Yet the Levites didn't die out due to celibacy. The Catholic church carried celibate priests and nuns over from Roman mythology's temple priests and temple virgins.

I've seen research that suggests Jesus was actually born in mid-March. Follow this - stars don't move in the sky. Planets do. Based on a few planets (can't remember which ones) lining up their orbits in just the right way to appear as a moving (wandering) star in the east that stopped moving in the night sky relation with the earth's orbit. The "star" didn't physically stop over Israel. It stayed stagnant is a certain section of the eastern sky that represented the Jewish nation. Astronomers could read the stars which is why they knew about it but King Herod hadn't seen the star. "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." (Matthew 2:2) "Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared." (Matthew 2:7) This "star" wasn't bright enough for the common person to notice it like depicted in many images and the story accepted by many today. Also, the movement of these planets again appeared to stop in the night sky again in late summer, early fall... "and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was" (Matthew 2:9). I wish I could find the link to it. I though it was a very interesting theory.

Ishtar is most likely where we get the word Easter. The goddess Ishtar was worshiped under many different names - Venus, Aphrodite, Isus, Asherah. She was the goddess of fertility and the yearly celebration for her was held in the spring. One way people celebrated this festival was with giving decorated eggs as symbols of fertility. It was easy for the Roman's to tie in Jesus' resurrection with an existing festival of fertility, spring, and new life since it occurred at about the same time of year.

And let's not even get started on July 4th....

Originally Posted by ImitationMan

And let's not even get started on July 4th....

You mean Independence Day? What's so secret about that?

Originally Posted by asianator365

Originally Posted by ImitationMan

And let's not even get started on July 4th....

You mean Independence Day? What's so secret about that?

Oh, didn't you see the documentary (movie) about it. I think it was called "Independence Day". It was all about aliens invading! :P

I just wanted to lighten up the thread after dumping all that information about holiday origins so I picked a holiday that is simple to understand.