So... it's my birthday again? And yes... it is "All Fools Day". So why has the first of April become to be associated with fools? Here's my take.
You see, the 1st April is the first day of the old Pagan New Year... (that's why the tax year still runs from April to April). April is the beginning... when Spring springs into life and everything starts to grow again!
Easter usually falls around this time too. The word Easter comes from the ancient fertility god Eastra, of Saxon origin... the goddess of spring. That really explains the Easter bunny and the egg thing doesn't it? In 1582 Pope Gregory rearranged the calendar for the christian world making the new year fall on the 1st January.
So... those who existed for countless centuries before and those of us alive today, (who have not been christened or baptised into their religion)... were regarded as fools... by those who hijacked this old Anglo Saxon festival in the name of christianity.
We all know of the abundance of historical evidence, whereby those unfortunate enough to have been placed in the care of various christian religious institutions were systematically sexually abused... and those stories keep on coming, along with the now thankfully failing attempts to excuse or cover them up.
Those appalling accounts, of what can only be described as pure evil will continue... so long as fools believe so called 'christians' have some kind of moral respectability of moral superiority over the rest of us.
So far this 'all fools day' I have read two news items... one of which concerns a self appointed London based African Christian 'preacher' who, with his assistant, stripped a member of his 'flock' naked then proceeded to sexually abuse her... under the pretence of some kind of 'baptism'.
The other, the principal or head 'teacher' of a Christian Education Alliance in Tulsa, USA... who has been arrested by federal agents for using an app to view child pornography through a chatroom.
Christianity... the events of which were passed down by word of mouth for a hundred years or so... before even beginning to be written down?
The religion that to this day, still continues to insist on 'truths'... based on absolutely no historical documented evidence... that any of it ever happened?
And you thought 'Fake News' (and those fools inclined to swallow it)... was a recent thing... didn't you? Happy April 'Fools' Day! <-
