Paganism is ok when we say it is

by zenpunk 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  JanH

  Imbue,

  This is a topic I've been discussing privately since I think it is hypocritical for atheists to celebrate religious holidays.

  Why should it be? Christians adapted a pre-christian festival to their own purposes. This is true about Christmas, and of course all other Christian holidays as well.

  Atheists simply do the same thing. There is a public celebration going on, and we adapt the parts we like (giving gifts, lights, eating and drinking) and throw out the superstitious junk.

  How is this more hypocrisy than Christians celebrating e.g. Easter, which is a Christian adaptation of Jewish, Mithraic and a number of other celebrations?

  Giving old customs new meaning is not exactly a novel idea. Why should atheists be prevented from doing the same?

  - Jan
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  Crazy151drinker

  Ugly:

  So then JW's should not use the English or Spanish days of the week, or any name based on latin or anglo language. So basicly they are screwed! Maybe they will just make up some new names. They make everything else up.......
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  Xander

  LOL @ Crazy

  The 'new light' JW calender:

  Sunday -> 'Russelday'
  Monday -> 'Rutherfordday'
  Tuesday -> 'Knorrday'
  Wednesday -> 'Franzday' (hmmm....maybe make that 'Friday'? Sounds the same. Plus, 'TGIF' still works!! 'Thank God it's Franzday' does have a nice ring to it....)
  Thursday -> 'Henschelday'

  hmmmm....other suggestions? We've still got 12 months to go, too!

  Edited by - Xander on 5 August 2002 17:19:3
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  Crazy151drinker

  Saturday - Slaveawayday

  Friday- Doomsday

  Sunday- ??? They will just have to get rid of Sunday. Even though the Sun gives 'light' its not the right kind, and even if it was, it would change, and we cant have Changinglightday......
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  JanH

  Crazy,

  So then JW's should not use the English or Spanish days of the week, or any name based on latin or anglo language. So basicly they are screwed! Maybe they will just make up some new names. They make everything else up.......

  Believe it or not, this actually was about to happen once. Woodowrth, the eccentric editor of The Golden Age (now Awake!) suggested in his magazine to change month names to take away all pagan names. Rutherford was sane enough to put an end to the idea, and humiliated Woodworth publicly over it. You can read about this, and see the calendar, in James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed.

  Incidentally, the arch-tyrant Robespierre also tried to remove "pagan" month names from the calendar during the French revolution. It didn't last long, as he lost his head in the end.

  - Jan
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  Crazy151drinker

  Well if Ceaser can make his own months why cant Bethel?? Dictators think the same.....
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  zenpunk

  I agree with Crazy. They use so many buzz words for everything else, what's 7 more for the days of the week?
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  Satanus

  Saturday could be AWAKE!DAY. No more sleeping in!

  Sunday would be WATCHTOWERDAY as in wt study day.

  Also, tuesday could be bookstudyday. Thursday could be servicemeetingday.

  Maybe the months could be named after wt prez's and other wt greats. Maybe they could start a new year count, starting from 607bc.

  HAHAHAHA

  SS