Addendum to the Ishtar = Easter meme: The Zealotry of Anti-Theism

Trigger warning: description of a rape analogy; discussion of mental illness stigmatization Yesterday I talked about the anti-Semitism in erasing the Jewish history of Christian holidays. (It is anti-Semitism; I know some folks think that I’m being hyperbolic here, but I’m not. When you erase an entire people’s culture, history, and religion from the equation, …

The Ishtar = Easter Meme and Pagan Anti-Semitism

So, this is annoying me enough today that I feel I should do a post on it. This picture has been shared around so many times on FB in the past week it’s given me whiplash: There is an awesome breakdown of why this is bullshit over at The Belle Jar, posted last year around …