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Sarah Palin claims Jesus celebrated Easter

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UPDATED: Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:35
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Friday, October 25, 2013 7:44 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Way to Go Sarah
Sarah Palin claimed today that Jesus Christ celebrated Easter during his time on Earth.
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In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, the former Alaska governor promoted her new book about the left's "war on Christmas" and argued that all Christian holidays should return to the traditional versions practiced by Jesus.

"It makes me so gosh darn angry," Palin explained. "The liberal left in this country has targeted Christian holidays and is trying to secularize them right out of existence.

"When Jesus celebrated Easter with his disciples there were no Easter bunnies or egg hunts. There were no Easter sales at department stores or parades in the street. Easter was a special time of prayer and Christian activism.

"Jesus would gather all the townspeople around and would listen to their stories about the meaning of Easter in their lives. Then he would teach them how to love one another, how to protest Roman abortion clinics and how to properly convert homosexuals.

"You can't even do things like that these days without getting called out by some wacko left-wing human rights group. Christians had more freedom under Roman rule than we do now in our own country! We need to return Easter back to the way it was when Jesus was alive."
Gospel of Palin

Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after he was crucified by the Romans in the 1st century A.D. It is the most important holiday for Eastern and Orthodox Christians, and also has great significance in the West.

Because Easter is a celebration of Jesus's resurrection from the dead, it is highly unlikely that he celebrated the holiday before his death. Its first recorded instance is sometime in the mid-2nd century. This seemingly obvious fact was not lost on the Fox and Friends team, who instantly challenged Palin's assertions.

"Sarah, you know that we love you," started co-host Brian Kilmeade. "I can understand if you think Christian holidays have become too secular and you want to return to the days of the early church. But you have to know that Jesus never celebrated Easter right? I mean you have to know that. What do you think Easter celebrates?"

"Well, Brian, Easter celebrates, you know, sticking it to all the liberal lefties out there who want to be taking our guns and our freedom," Palin responded. "It celebrates the rights of the unborn and the right to religious freedom, to not have government come in and tell you who to believe in and who not to ..."

"It celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus," Kilmeade interrupted. "It celebrates his death and resurrection from the dead. Now Sarah, tell me how can Jesus celebrate his own death before he died?"

Palin stared blankly into the screen for about 15 seconds, before co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck cut to commercial.


http://dailycurrant.com/2013/10/23/sarah-palin-claims-jesus-celebrated
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Oh too funny. Could this really be true?

Does she even realise Jesus was Jewish?

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Friday, October 25, 2013 7:49 PM

BYTEMITE


http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/easter.asp

Nope. I don't like Sarah myself, but this is obvious satire.

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Friday, October 25, 2013 9:02 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yes, it's obvious parody. Daily Currant is a satire site. Rather poor parody, in my opinion. It goes way too far to be humorous and just becomes silly. They lost me even before "Jesus would gather..."

I actually found the comments section more interesting. This is a selection, leaving out the more idiotic comments and those who actually BELIEVED the piece:
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"Everyone, including atheists, practice or believe in a "religion" or set of values that constitutes their view of the world and each deserves the respect and freedom to hold those beliefs. We can only get along if we practice civility toward one another. Disagreement with Palin, as I do as well, does not justify making fun of those who subscribe to a particular faith."

"But respect for religion should not preclude us from making fun of someone who is completely, and almost always, WRONG about the facts of her religion, and the history of our country."

"I agree with you that people have an innate right to believe in or practice any religion they want. I do NOT think that every set of beliefs — be they religious, political or whatever — is deserving of respect or freedom. For example, most sane people can recognize Scientology for the crock of bullshit that it is. I would defend anyone's right to believe the tenets of that religion but that wouldn't mean I respect them or their goofy faith. Same goes for Mormonism, Catholicism, etc., which, in my view, lie along the same continuum of crazy. Some beliefs simply cry out to be made the butt of jokes."

"Really? What religion in your opinion does not "lie along the same continuum of crazy"?"

"Buddhism looks relatively sane from an outsiders point of view. Otherwise they all seem to have strongly irrational beliefs. I just don't buy the whole "invisible man in the clouds" scenario or monkey gods and past lives."

"But surely it is incumbent on people who hold certain beliefs to actually have some knowledge of what they believe in. It's not necessarily Christianity that's being made fun of here - it's the ignorance of people who yell and scream about being Christians while having no knowledge of what Christian ideas might actually entail. The early Christians would have called them Pharisees."

"I agree in principle, as long as people practice their faith in private and do not bring it into public affairs. But we are only talking about this woman because she came very close to the vice presidency of the country, and it is a highly dangerous notion to allow our public officials to curry political support among the populace by openly espousing their religious beliefs. This is not Iran. There is simply no place for that in this country."

"To say that everyones views, no matter how whacky or uneducated need be respected equally is ludicrous. That is just not how society works... We reject idiotic views of entire groups of people all the time... History books or rife with examples......."

"Oh yes it can Sir! Being a person of faith literally announces the world that you are happy to take an a great amount of views without any evidence to back them up. Remember that faith starts when observable evidence run out and it doesn't deserve respect."

"That's an extremely close minded and arrogant thing to say, while you may disagree with a persons beliefs, to disrespect a person for not thinking like you is such an ignorant thing to do. Now i'm not a heavily devout christian, and I don't take much of the bible as literal fact, but the teachings of Christianity and most other religions do have their merits. Contrary to what a lot of people think that their holy books say, most preach tolerance, forgiveness, and kindness. And if everybody lived the way that Jesus did I have no doubt that the world would be a nicer place. And before someone cites a line from the old testament in response to me, i'm not talking about the old testament, i'm talking about the teachings of Jesus. Teachings that say we should not condemn each other for being different or for being sinners. What the bible has taught me is that It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, atheist, or have even killed somebody, we should treat others with compassion. And that includes not condemning others for what they believe"

"Faith is just a way to continued believing in a "lie"...Think about how we teach our children to believe in Santa Clause...One day the children find out it is not true...But because they get gifts they are happy to play along...But the Church is just looking for a way to get money out of everyone to keep funding the "lie"...That is sad...I know the true benefit of Church is community, but would it not be better to have it under the truth of todays social beliefs..."

"I think that The Bible promises that Jesus will one day return to Earth at which time He will judge the living AND the dead! Wow...that's a big job, but nonetheless, I am certain that Jesus did not request that His followers help Him out by doing as much judging as possible prior to His second coming (third if you're Mormon, right?) He simply left us with the message...'Love God The Father with All your heart; and Love Thy Neighbor as you love yourself. (Neighbor means enemy, those people that tend to piss you off, that's hard to do. Easy to love our friends and family, no need to tell us that. We're instructed by Him to place our negativity (hatred, anger, vengeance, greed, jealousy, ad infinitum) place this baggage at the FOOT OF THE CROSS. He said..."Drop all that hateful bullshit.." (of course I paraphrase) Sorry, I got carried away."



...I just found the exchanges and comments interesting...not unlike something that might have gone on here....

But you know what really gets me? Piers Morgan BOUGHT IT at first! That's the last time I'll ever--well, actually, I don't watch Piers Morgan, or even MSNBC anymore, but hey ho righties: There's a lefty commentator you can hold up to ridicule, and I'll snark right along with you!

Found that by googling "Palin Jesus" to see if the news had caught up with this, and yeah, it's all over the place...but the Piers Morgan thing amazed me. I don't know the guy, only watched him a couple of times and didn't like him, but to be THAT dumb...!


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Friday, October 25, 2013 9:10 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Actually, after thinking about it, that some people took it seriously shows three things:

1. How easily people can befooled;
2. How many people out there don't bother using their brains;
3. How Palin has said so many stupid things that people would swallow it so easily.


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Friday, October 25, 2013 9:22 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Actually, the lies attributed to Palin & what she's not said are what makes fools of so many.

Like how this thread got started.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 1:42 AM

OONJERAH


Quote MAGONSDAUGHTER, "Sarah Palin claimed today that Jesus Christ
celebrated Easter during his time on Earth."

I never paid any attention to Sarah Palin, never heard her speak.
Tho I lean strongly liberal, I actually have no interest in politics,
nor have I been able to take it up. I never heard of the Daily
Currant
, either.

So I read it thinking Sarah had said every word. I thought it was a riot!

Should we make fun of people who don't think for themselves?
Knowing full well that they could not if their life depended on it?
No, we should not.

*cracking up again!*


======================
A man's gotta know if his mind is rational.

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 1:55 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


me too, jerah

Especially given the stupid stuff generally spouted by the christian right.

I mean if you believe in the young earth, then basically reality is a very strange place to be

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 2:52 AM

OONJERAH


Quote:

Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
I mean if you believe in the young earth, then basically reality is
a very strange place to be



I do not know if History is taught in US schools today or not.
I heard about 20 years ago that it had been dropped from Elementary
& Junior H.S. to make room for computer instruction.

If it's been dropped, purpose no doubt sinister. It's working, too.

Without any history, Young Earth would seem to make sense ... to some.

Trust me: It's a very strange place here now. Hold the line!


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A man's gotta know his roots.

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:11 PM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Quote:

Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
I mean if you believe in the young earth, then basically reality is
a very strange place to be



I do not know if History is taught in US schools today or not.
I heard about 20 years ago that it had been dropped from Elementary
& Junior H.S. to make room for computer instruction.


==================
A man's gotta know his roots.



Total myth.




"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:35 PM

BYTEMITE


Eh... Not really wrong either. The version of history we get in school is so distorted by agenda to be pretty much useless.

Like Thanksgiving pageants with happy pilgrims and happy native americans. Instead of, you know, starving pilgrims and sick/dying native americans with small pox blankets. And how amazingly awesome the US system of government is, instead of the clusterfuck it REALLY is.

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