[escepticos] Curiosidades diversas

[José María Mateos]

2009/4/10 Miguel Martínez Estremera <mimartin en cepymearagon.es>:
> A mí también me cansa intentar contestar uno a uno a tods los ociosos que
> por culpa de esta maldita fiesta cristiana me hacen escribir.

Al hilo de esto:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/apr/10/easter-christianity

"Thousands of years ago, when Jesus was no more than a twinkle in his
dad's eye, the ancient peoples of Europe worshipped the goddess
Oestre, or Eastre, at this time of year. The Babylonians on the other
hand, worshipped Ishtar, or was it Inanna, or maybe Astarte? Anyway,
whoever it was, it was another female goddess who represented
fertility, spring, the return of the sun, fecundity, birth, rebirth
and so on. Some people still worship these ancient goddesses, and to
this day Wiccans and other pagans continue to celebrate the spring
equinox as one of the eight Sabbats in their  Wheel of the Year.

Which is why I'm always baffled when people like the new archbishop of
Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, make pronouncements about
the nation's "religious traditions", as if all our traditions and
customs were introduced by and the sole responsibility of the
primarily Christian religions these men represent: because they're
not."

Un saludo.
-- 
José María Mateos
Las penas del Agente Smith: http://rinzewind.org