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Re: Sarah Palin Vs. Black Thomas Sowell - The Intellectual Superiority Of White Women
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Ed Rhodes
May 19, 2021, 10:09:08 PM5/19/21
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"Leroy N. Soetoro" <GOPN...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> Sarah Palin's a Brainiac, Thomas Sowell is Black like Obama and OJ
> Simpson.
>
> Sarah Palin claimed today that Jesus Christ celebrated Easter during
> his time on Earth.
>
> In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, the former Alaska
> governor promoted her new book about the left's "war on Christmas" and
> argued that all Christian holidays should return to the traditional
> versions practiced by Jesus.
>
> "It makes me so gosh darn angry," Palin explained. "The liberal left
> in this country has targeted Christian holidays and is trying to
> secularize them right out of existence.
>
> "When Jesus celebrated Easter with his disciples there were no Easter
> bunnies or egg hunts. There were no Easter sales at department stores
> or parades in the street. Easter was a special time of prayer and
> Christian activism.
>
> "Jesus would gather all the townspeople around and would listen to
> their stories about the meaning of Easter in their lives. Then he
> would teach them how to love one another, how to protest Roman
> abortion clinics and how to properly convert homosexuals.
>
> "You can't even do things like that these days without getting called
> out by some wacko left-wing human rights group. Christians had more
> freedom under Roman rule than we do now in our own country! We need to
> return Easter back to the way it was when Jesus was alive."
> Gospel of Palin
>
> Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus
> Christ on the third day after he was crucified by the Romans in the
> 1st century A.D. It is the most important holiday for Eastern and
> Orthodox Christians, and also has great significance in the West.
>
> Because Easter is a celebration of Jesus's resurrection from the dead,
> it is highly unlikely that he celebrated the holiday before his death.
> Its first recorded instance is sometime in the mid-2nd century. This
> seemingly obvious fact was not lost on the Fox and Friends team, who
> instantly challenged Palin's assertions.
>
> "Sarah, you know that we love you," started co-host Brian Kilmeade. "I
> can understand if you think Christian holidays have become too secular
> and you want to return to the days of the early church. But you have
> to know that Jesus never celebrated Easter right? I mean you have to
> know that. What do you think Easter celebrates?"
>
> "Well, Brian, Easter celebrates, you know, sticking it to all the
> liberal lefties out there who want to be taking our guns and our
> freedom," Palin responded. "It celebrates the rights of the unborn and
> the right to religious freedom, to not have government come in and
> tell you who to believe in and who not to ..."
>
> "It celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus," Kilmeade
> interrupted. "It celebrates his death and resurrection from the dead.
> Now Sarah, tell me how can Jesus celebrate his own death before he
> died?"
>
> Palin stared blankly into the screen for about 15 seconds, before
> co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck cut to commercial.
Uh, no. I don't like Sarah Palin, but you're quoting a satirical
newspaper on a par with "The Onion."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/palin-jesus-easter/
news:s83h5i$10j0$1...@neodome.net:
> Sarah Palin's a Brainiac, Thomas Sowell is Black like Obama and OJ
> Simpson.
>
> Sarah Palin claimed today that Jesus Christ celebrated Easter during
> his time on Earth.
>
> In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, the former Alaska
> governor promoted her new book about the left's "war on Christmas" and
> argued that all Christian holidays should return to the traditional
> versions practiced by Jesus.
>
> "It makes me so gosh darn angry," Palin explained. "The liberal left
> in this country has targeted Christian holidays and is trying to
> secularize them right out of existence.
>
> "When Jesus celebrated Easter with his disciples there were no Easter
> bunnies or egg hunts. There were no Easter sales at department stores
> or parades in the street. Easter was a special time of prayer and
> Christian activism.
>
> "Jesus would gather all the townspeople around and would listen to
> their stories about the meaning of Easter in their lives. Then he
> would teach them how to love one another, how to protest Roman
> abortion clinics and how to properly convert homosexuals.
>
> "You can't even do things like that these days without getting called
> out by some wacko left-wing human rights group. Christians had more
> freedom under Roman rule than we do now in our own country! We need to
> return Easter back to the way it was when Jesus was alive."
> Gospel of Palin
>
> Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus
> Christ on the third day after he was crucified by the Romans in the
> 1st century A.D. It is the most important holiday for Eastern and
> Orthodox Christians, and also has great significance in the West.
>
> Because Easter is a celebration of Jesus's resurrection from the dead,
> it is highly unlikely that he celebrated the holiday before his death.
> Its first recorded instance is sometime in the mid-2nd century. This
> seemingly obvious fact was not lost on the Fox and Friends team, who
> instantly challenged Palin's assertions.
>
> "Sarah, you know that we love you," started co-host Brian Kilmeade. "I
> can understand if you think Christian holidays have become too secular
> and you want to return to the days of the early church. But you have
> to know that Jesus never celebrated Easter right? I mean you have to
> know that. What do you think Easter celebrates?"
>
> "Well, Brian, Easter celebrates, you know, sticking it to all the
> liberal lefties out there who want to be taking our guns and our
> freedom," Palin responded. "It celebrates the rights of the unborn and
> the right to religious freedom, to not have government come in and
> tell you who to believe in and who not to ..."
>
> "It celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus," Kilmeade
> interrupted. "It celebrates his death and resurrection from the dead.
> Now Sarah, tell me how can Jesus celebrate his own death before he
> died?"
>
> Palin stared blankly into the screen for about 15 seconds, before
> co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck cut to commercial.
Uh, no. I don't like Sarah Palin, but you're quoting a satirical
newspaper on a par with "The Onion."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/palin-jesus-easter/
Ed Rhodes
May 19, 2021, 10:09:45 PM5/19/21
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