If Mort Divine ruled the world

[CiG]

Show me where "church" is mentioned in the Tweets.

 

[Einherjar86]

It. Doesn't. Matter.

My grandma is catholic and calls going to church on Easter.... “easter worship”

(hope Krow doesn't mind me using this)

And my point is that churches were bombed. Why the fuck do they need to mention churches? Nothing about your comments makes sense.

 

[CiG]

Hell, saying "Easter worshippers" in the same Tweet as saying it's a holy weekend for many faiths makes it even less specific.

(hope Krow doesn't mind me using this)

It. Doesn't. Matter.

And my point is that churches were bombed. Why the fuck do they need to mention churches? Nothing about your comments makes sense.

Because in similar statements about attacks against Muslims and Jews they mention synagogues and mosques. Because the former leader of the free world and the almost leader of the free world should address directly an attack on an entire religion, because they do so any other time.

Words matter, remember?

 

[Einherjar86]

It doesn't matter that Christians use the phrase "Easter worship"? Seems to me that was at the center of this conversation a while back...

 

[CiG]

One example given by a guy who uses mind-altering drugs daily means nothing.

 

[Einherjar86]

Jesus Christ, do a fucking google search. This is a stupid argument, but there are plenty of hits for "easter worship" and "easter worshipers" that predate these tweets you're so fucking in love with.

 

[CiG]

I wonder if any Passover worshipppers were hurt in the bombings. After all it was a holy weekend for many faiths bro.

 

[Einherjar86]

I wonder if any twitter followers were under the impression that Christians weren't targeted during the attacks.

 

[CiG]

Did a Google search of "Easter worshipers" and went back over a dozen pages and other than cretins like Slate desperately trying to play defense for Obama and Clinton, and conservatives ranting about the bizarre new euphemism, nothing shows up other than things referring to "Easter Worship" which is a general name for church events.

For context, there are also events called Christmas Worship and Good Friday Worship and these are named for the fact that the churches hold worship on these days. Nobody would ever call people killed in a church on Christmas or Good Friday "Christmas worshipers" or "Good Friday worshipers."

Show me some examples where "Easter worshipers" was used before this, and if you try to use "Easter Worship" as an example I'm going to reject it.

I wonder if any twitter followers were under the impression that Christians weren't targeted during the attacks.

You're side-stepping the Tweets when you imply that people aren't dumb enough to not know Christians were killed. People also weren't dumb enough to think Hillary Clinton isn't a corrupt person, that doesn't excuse her corruption.

 

[CiG]

I just did a Twitter phrase search and there are 0 results for the phrase "Easter worshiper" (and with the extra 'p') before 2019.

Decided to do an advanced Google search for the phrase used between 2000 and 2018, here are the results:

"Easter worshipers"

"Easter worshippers"

 

[Einherjar86]

These are random:

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/05/archives/thousands-of-greeks-here-mark-easter.html

Scores of Easter worshipers surged toward him, lighting their candles from his, passing the light to others.

https://www.pnj.com/story/holidays/...-pastors-easter-message-welcome-back/7853575/

Like other clergy, Monsignor James Flaherty, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, near the main entrance to Pensacola Naval Air Station, wants to make Easter worshipers feel welcome.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/552021/Key-to-Heavens-gate-isnt-a-cult-worshipers-cautioned.html

As dawn peeked through the clouds, 300 Easter worshipers gathered in a high school stadium and praised God as the only keeper of heaven's gate.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/30/mass.suicide/index.html

"Jesus Christ is the gate, he's the only way. There's no UFO waiting behind a comet," Pastor Bob Botsford told 300 Easter worshipers gathered in a high school stadium near where the cult members died.

http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/head-line-news-details/6457

Muslim woman ready to be suicide bomber to kill Easter worshipers set free

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2014/04/21/7955453/

Easter worshipers injured in when car crashes into Fla. church

https://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20120409/News/605062974/DN/

Easter worshipers blessed with vivid sunrise

 

[CiG]

Well, fuck. I guess this was me this whole time:



I stand corrected.

 

[Dak]

So, some non-English speaking journalists and references to the Heavens Gate cult dominate. D grade Twitter team I guess. Hanlon Honk honk.

I'm sure the Twitter team was born prior to the 1997/1998 taglines for HG. Not.

 

[Einherjar86]

I'm sorry if I came off brash--I was just shocked that people haven't encountered the phrase.

@CiG You're a bigger man than Dak. He deleted his original post.

 

[CiG]

Everyone is bigger than Dak, he's a midget.

 

[Dak]

@CiG You're a bigger man than Dak. He deleted his original post.

I deleted it because I replied with the page open for like 30 mins and hadn't seen your reply. Then I replied and it loaded showing your response. Sorry.

 

[Dak]

Everyone is bigger than Dak, he's a midget.

Thank god for medical definitions of midgets or I'd be butthurt

 

[Einherjar86]

I deleted it because I replied with the page open for like 30 mins and hadn't seen your reply. Then I replied and it loaded showing your response. Sorry.

And changed your post.

Look, you can complain about what I've linked here all you want. The fact is that it is a phrase that's been used, and used fairly regularly in journalism for years. I could increase that list if I cared to keep searching the depths of the internet archive. But I don't. You're pushing a baseless perspective here, so I'm done.

 

[CiG]

I'd genuinely never heard that phrase before and it still reads as weird to me, but facts don't care about my feelings so I have to cede.

 

[Dak]

And changed your post.

Look, you can complain about what I've linked here all you want. The fact is that it is a phrase that's been used, and used fairly regularly in journalism for years. I could increase that list if I cared to keep searching the depths of the internet archive. But I don't. You're pushing a baseless perspective here, so I'm done.

Depths. An important word. Also I said Christians using the term. You have reports using the term. And one/five examples isn't proof of an idiom or colloquialism. It's some random US/nonUS journalists with a bad grasp of English (but I repeat myself) over the last 20 years.

I didn't even have any hand in the fact that page after page of Google returns show that in 2000 years of Christian history, there seems to be no example of Christians ever referring to themselves as "Easter worship[p]ers" that can be appealed to to demonstrate that it's just an idiom or a colloquial turn of phrase.