Jesus suffered horribly, before He was ever even nailed to that cross, and hoisted up. He was beaten, bruised, flogged, humiliated, mocked, spat upon, laughed at, and tormented in every conceivable way...for us.

Like you implied, they are the intruders, the theives, the destroyers, the plague that infected otherwise Holy things/days/events/rememberances.

Thanks MS, I downloaded it. I noticed the hand drawn illustrations...don't see that anymore.

The link above is a lengthy read, but an all-in-one breakdown of the Easter holiday, its origins, and detailed breakdown of all the elements associated with it, and more. Read it over, and walk away with a thorough understanding of this holiday.

Proud to have been born in a barn, yes, hay makes for some comfortable bedding, and what is a Duroc hog...relatives you discovered through a DNA search, and now members of your family tree? Poor hogs...what did they ever do wrong?

So now, because they're embarassed, and look like lying losers, they're talking impeachment for the crime of obstruction, because Trump trashed Jeff Sessions on Twitter, and merely "thought" about firing Mueller? What a joke these people are, especially when many of the accusers have their own laundry lists of personal crimes. The liberals are just frothing at the mouth with a hatred like I've never seen, and if they ever regain power, this nation will implode, but things will go just the way that God has them planned out.

Anyone who is against cremation can point to why they believe it to be wrong, but only in very subjective, and round-about ways. I know few care for my "gray area" terminology, but hey, that's how I see it.

Nothing wrong with a church building, but this would be my preference if given a choice.

The sodomites were given the green light to marry, and soon after, infected an entire nation like a plague. Their agenda has even become a part of the public school systems "curriculum", so to speak, all of Hollywood has become their personal propaganda machine, mainstream media celebrates them, and this nation's courts have declared them a protected species. The sodomite agenda has gone full circle, and their dirty deeds of death, are now being celebrated, glamorized, condoned, and even, encouraged, whereas just a few short years ago, they lurked in the shadows because they feared a society that ostracized and condemned them...the very same society that now stands alongside them, fighting for their rights to do wicked things. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

Yep, agree with that, but we're in a new age where the kids rule the adults, and run the household...and schools. Spank a kid these days, and it's child abuse...the parent, or guardian, goes straight to jail. The kids have so much control now, because they know they can just make a simple phone call to have a parent arrested, and locked right up. I got spanked with a belt growing up, and that pretty much kept me in line. I wouldn't have ever dared to argue, yell at, or touch one of my parents, and most kids then never would have tried it either.

Fun fact if some didn't catch it: Notre Dame was built using 52acres of timber, and the enormous beams used were from trees now extinct.

Sorry, maybe I should go a bit easier on your kind. A 124IQ, compared to an 11, average, for mountain folk, well, I guess it's really not all that fair of me to use so many words and syllables. Sorry.😭

Any children, even one, single child at any age is bad enough, but children as young as 3yrs?? Disgusting, irresponsible, liberal parents. None of this nonsense is child abuse though, right? Spank a child on the butt to discipline, and teach them though, and it's straight to jail. Refer to a trans boy as a "he", or the opposite of however he may be feeling at that particular moment, and a teacher gets disciplined, and/or, suspended. Use the word, "family", in many corporate environments, and even colleges, etc., now, and there's outrage, because family typically refers to a male, female, and their children, so it's considered insensitive and offensive. Teach a little boy that he's a boy, or a little girl, a girl, and it's considered child abuse by a growing number, because they're being denied their right to decide. Craziness.

Way too much to cover here, but it has an interesting evolution.

The church's (Romes) ecumenical goals since the Manhattan Declaration have slowly caused them to feign falling in line, in order to appear acceptable with the same common goals, and beliefs. The thing I've noticed is that any searches I've done for, "How does a Catholic know they're saved", or, "How does a Catholic get saved", etc., while concentrating on answers from official Catholic sites only, such as Catholic Answers, etc., have all streamlined the answers. The common answers I see now are, by grace alone, through faith alone, which is utter nonsense, according to their own councils and catecisms. Utter nonsense, and lies. I'm bringing this up because you mentioned baptism, which is one of their many requirements for salvation, as opposed to it being a public declaration, and symbolic of the old man going under, and the new, arising; washed clean and with his new nature, etc.