thinking about Easter

http://www.cagle.com/2012/04/easter-stewardship-gods-climate-plan/

Easter, Stewardship & Godâ€™s Climate Plan

"Is there any aspect of our spiritual or physical life where our actions are without consequence? Everything we do has consequencesâ€”and the earthâ€™s life-sustaining ecology was not designed to be immune from our actions and choices.

God gave mankind the ability to reason, and the experts are telling us that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere disrupts the climate and causes the earth to overheat. This warming results in new and unusual weather patterns, more intense storms, worse flooding, longer droughts, more frequent heat waves."

http://www.evolver.net/user/kokolion/blog/jesus_was_buddhist_easter_resurrection#comment-129931

Jesus Was a Buddhist: An Easter Resurrection

"In no way do I mean to impugn the intentions at the heart of Christian principles, or the boundless eternal spirit of Yeshua â€“ to the contrary, only to point out that the way towards buddhahood for the bodhisattva (the enlightened being who compassionately renounces Nirvana to return on behalf of the suffering) lies in the practice of generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom.... Liberally mix that with Love; and with Right Understanding, Right Purpose, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Occupation, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Meditation, and you will be on that path of spiritual evolution yourself."

http://firstnooftheday.blogspot.com/2011/04/undiscovered-diary-of-jesus-christ.html

The undiscovered diary of Jesus Christ

"Friday
Woke up this morning and thought; â€œGood..... Friday!â€Â As it turned out, there was nothing good about it at all.Â I had a terrible day.Â Everyone was really rather nasty, especially that Pontius Pilot, I even said to him â€œdonâ€™t you know who my father is.â€Â To cut a long story short; got arrested. Put on trial â€“ what a joke of a judiciary.Â It then went from bad to worse.Â By the end of the day it was all getting beyond a joke and to top it all, it started bloody raining.Â Definitely not a day I want to be reminded of in future."

http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2009/04/happy-resurrection-holiday-the.html

Happy Resurrection Holiday! The Origins of Easter

"The resurrection story of Jesus is virtually identical to the tale of the resurrection of the Phrygian god Attis who preceded him:Â According to Gerald Berry's Religions of the World: The Record of Man's Religious Faiths Primitive rites, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and others written in 1965, "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." Â

thinking about Easter

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