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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 15:46:06 JST Myles Poland
- Witch Hunter Siegfired
"Easter is a pagan holiday" nonsense is like a smell embedded in fabric that no amount of scrubbing ever manages to fully remove. But I'll do a little deboonking.

The first and ultimate deboonk is that Jesus really did rise from the grave as a matter of historical fact. So even if all the practices and methods of celebration do have explicit pagan roots, that fact is completely irrelevant. What we're celebrating is Jesus's resurrection, not springtime or planting season, or a fertility festival. You can't accidentally worship a pagan fertility spirit when celebrating Easter.

An obvious analogy should spread some light. When we think "cake" we usually think "birthday." But you can use cake to celebrate anything, like a wedding or retirement. Saying that having a religious festival in the spring is inherently pagan is as silly as saying cake is inherently for birthdays. The method of celebration is incidental, what matters is what you're celebrating.

First claim in the video: Eostore remained the name of a month, and therefore the cult was still active. There's really no reason to think this. What things are called lingers a long, long time after the cultural reference has ceased existing or become irrelevant. Look up the original reference for the word "OK" as just one example.

Second claim: Eostore is cognate with other "dawn goddesses" from across Europe. Not really relevant, but worth noting that it was really only the Romans who bought into this kind of divine occasionalism, the idea that, say, the Germanic chief storm god and Jupiter were actually the same being. Going by the raw data concerning various spirits and taking everything at face value, you could posit that ancient European pantheons followed similar hierarchical structures. Otherwise the claims made about various spirits are mutually exclusive.

Third claim: Eostore was worshipped all over northwestern Europe. The presenter relies heavily on assuming (but never bothering to prove) occasionalism, and cognates to draw parallels. This doesn't really hold up for reasons i mentioned previously, and all of this is still irrelevant.

Fourth point: Apparently these dawn goddesses were gigasluts, and the pagan rituals that celebrate them were sexually charged. Does that sound anything like Jesus's resurrection?

My takeaway from this video is that it's irrelevant to the point at hand, and being charitable, only establishes that a month in springtime in the anglophone world is named after a pagan goddess.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/9d2764b1-a7c3-4c70-82b6-2dbc18185d93
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 13:59:31 JST Myles Poland
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:27:28 JST Myles Poland
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@kevinparaguay @doctorsex @Owl @DEERBLOOD @Turdicus @monsterislandcolonizer What concrete, quantifiable steps have you taken to fight the feds?

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 10:29:39 JST Myles Poland
- SuperLutheran (kicky half)
New lore drop at Age of Ruin!

The Ship Herders

ageofruin.info/2024/10/24/the-ship-herders/

CC: @SuperLutheran
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  The Ship Herders
  
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  The Amilguiaro sector is the very definition of Frontier space. With few exceptions, the worlds of Amilguiaro are underdeveloped and reliant on resource extraction to sustain their weak economies. …
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 04:22:31 JST Myles Poland

When I say "Every single time," brother, I mean Every. Single. Time.

For context, David Javerbaum, failed comedy writer, owner of the "TweetOfGod" Twitter account, and who started up the fake Godcast, was just outed as a pedophile.
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:04:41 JST Myles Poland

Periodic reminder that the only reason there's a right wing in the US at all is because of evangelicals.
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:04:40 JST Myles Poland
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@not_benis A preponderance of Catholics vote Democrat.
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  Religious Landscape Study
  
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  Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.
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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:04:39 JST Myles Poland
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@not_benis Catholic have historically been a solid Democrat voting bloc and a liberalizing influence. There's no denying this. Counting on Catholics to keep America American is pointless.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:04:37 JST Myles Poland
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@CharlesSynyard @branman65 @not_benis @RaHoWaJoe Catholicism as a cultural label is just another instance of Catholics having no good way to course correct and shed dead weight until after it's too late. Catholic-race is a thing, and it's a reflection of them still clinging to the days when they were the ZOG of the middle ages.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:04:35 JST Myles Poland
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@koropokkur @CharlesSynyard @not_benis @RaHoWaJoe @branman65 Possession is nine-tenths of the law, and the Argentinian pinko has the big hat.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 00:28:44 JST Myles Poland
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@sickburnbro Apparently immigrants committing less crime is due entirely to the fact that they haven't been here long enough. Controlling for time-in-country, they fall right in line with their racial cohort, as do their children.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 17:11:06 JST Myles Poland

The last set of names sound like Smiling Friends characters.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 22:11:35 JST Myles Poland
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@WoodshopHandman @doctorsex @sickburnbro I think it's less than there is no passion, and more the fact that right wingers have a very strong regard for consequences. Vanishingly few right wingers are going to roll the dice on monetizing their hobby

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 13:21:47 JST Myles Poland
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@graf @Pawlicker @Jonny @SuperSnekFriend G

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 10:33:43 JST Myles Poland
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@vrilium @RealRaul Because God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 03:55:57 JST Myles Poland
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@Shadowman311 They should just make a Joe Biden AI and let it run things until January. Listen here, fat. I have no mouth. And I have to... Y'know, the thing...

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:43:09 JST Myles Poland
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@AnimeTradCath @doctorsex @James_Dixon @transgrammaractivist @Snidely_Whiplash @bobbala @d0c40r0 @matty @KingOfWhiteAmerica @PeterPower @Sulla_Felix @TrevorGoodchild @Will2Power @abner Why go "through" anyone when God Himself told us to pray to the Father?

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:42:19 JST Myles Poland
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @AnimeTradCath @doctorsex @James_Dixon @transgrammaractivist @Snidely_Whiplash @bobbala @d0c40r0 @matty @PeterPower @Sulla_Felix @TrevorGoodchild @Will2Power @abner Catholics hold that tradition and Scripture are of equal authoritative weight.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:42:19 JST Myles Poland
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@AnimeTradCath @doctorsex @James_Dixon @transgrammaractivist @Snidely_Whiplash @bobbala @d0c40r0 @matty @KingOfWhiteAmerica @PeterPower @Sulla_Felix @TrevorGoodchild @Will2Power @abner Call me crazy, but I think Jesus's instructions to the Apostles are more relevant than the instructions given to Job's friends.

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Myles Poland (myles@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:42:18 JST Myles Poland
@BionicNigga @KingOfWhiteAmerica @AnimeTradCath @doctorsex @James_Dixon @transgrammaractivist @Snidely_Whiplash @bobbala @d0c40r0 @matty @PeterPower @Sulla_Felix @TrevorGoodchild @Will2Power @abner Trying to subsume Scripture into the nebulous and ever-changing catholic tradition is absurd. The canon of scripture was collected under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and tradition should be subordinated to scripture.

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