Pagan Munument in Arlington, Texas

How is it that we can call this guy a zealot without also calling Eric Pianka a zealot?
 
Just have the Christians steal the monument like they did the Pagan holidays and call them their own. Then attach fables and myth to them and make them a big deal. This monument could be real significant one day with enough time passing by.
 
Ohh Ohh the Zealots. Run for the hills. Run for the hills.

The original link wasn't worth the posting much less your thread. I'm glad you're painting with a broad brush there BTW.

Some obscure preacher from a small church in a small town makes an internet comment and all the sudden we're going back to the ages of fire and brimstone and hell damnation.

Give me a break.
 
zeal·ot Pronunciation (zlt)
n.
1.
a. One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
b. A fanatically committed person.
2. Zealot A member of a Jewish movement of the first century a.d. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.
 
Eric Pianka the UT professor with the pet Buffalo named 'Lucifer'? Eric Pianka the guy who advocates the creation of a bio-engineered virus that would eliminate of a significant percentage of the Earth's population?
 
GT,
I for one thank you for posting this article. I don't think it is about those 'zealots' though. I think it is about someone who if far afield and misguided in his zeal.
I remember when I was growing up in Alrington my youth group did an Easter sunrise service over looking the pond that was by the old park on I20. I didn't find anything particular 'pagan' about it then, and I don't now.
I can understand that it could be something that attracts those who practice Wicca because it could resemble Stone Henge to them. Do I really care? No.
Of course I have read every single Harry Potter, and find no major (I can't think of a minor one right now) objection to the books. I enjoyed them for the works of fantasy they are.
I do know that many are concerned about what has been percieved as fantasy bleeding over into reality. There are those who live their lives of delusion, on just about every side of the fence.
 
Perham,
I guess I don't understand the point of your post. Are you attacking my education about the history of Easter, or Christmas? I wasn't attempting anything approaching a histio-religious exegesis of the meaning and timing of Easter and/or Christmas.
My point was that sometimes a sculpture is just that, and shouldn't really be taken to mean much else. To attach great religious meaning where none is intended was more the point of my thread.
So what was the point of your post? It seemed clearly directed towards me and assumes I am ignorant of all things I did not post.
 
Perham,
I apologise if I was unclear in my first post about the antecedant to 'it.' When I said I didn't find anything particularly pagan about 'it,' the 'it' to which I was referring was this art sculpture. The Sculpture seems to be the issue here. At least that is what I was speaking of, and I assumed was the point of what we were talking about.
Now if you want to talk about this 'zealot' and his lack of understanding any connection between Easter and paganism that would be another thing.

So let me see if I can rephrase in a more clear manner.

As a Christian I do not find this sculpture offensive nor necessarily pagan in nature.

Is that more clear for you?
 
That is clearer now. Thank you.

So now I guess we go to the sculpture? Is it that Stonehenge looking thing in the linked article? Is that what you didn't find "pagan"? I guess some people may, or may not, see paganism in something like that.
 
P/C, it doesn't really matter. The fact that Jesus died on one pretty sealed the deal of it being the main Christian symbol.
 
Perham,
what you just said, was the point of my first post on here. So glad that the picture clears it up for you.
 
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