Has anyone noticed that EASTER has disapeared? PC idiocy!

[lind9650]

That is why I have not bought any Easter Eggs this year.

Now I find that I was not the only one that has noticed this.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/federal-mp-questions-why-manufacturers-take-easter-out-of-...

Disgusting what people will do to make an extra dollar. Well, they are not getting mine.

Erica

[raptor_rebooted]

When in Europe for Christmas I often go to midnight mass, not because of religion but because I love the music. I am an atheist, as were my parents, and my grandparents, at least in the part of their lives that I knew them.

well, i'm not a believer either

but love attending the eid festivals

because of the food 

i'm pretty sure muslims see it as 

a significant religious holy day 

[raptor_rebooted]

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@imastawka wrote:

Seriously, Erica?

Eggs and bunnies at Easter are a pagan/heathen tradition

And unless you're Greek - Easter is over for this year

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so what? pagan easter eggs,

christian easter eggs, they're still

easter eggs.  if they want to create

different types of eggs that's great but

don't get rid of easter eggs 

[raptor_rebooted]

oh well, at least they have a happy easter

hunt bucket for the non easter eggs 

[***super_nova***]

I'd bet that there are more people attending the Xmas sales than go to church,  🙂  And pigging out on chocolate has nothing to do with religion.  I doubt the really pious people look at chocolate egg and feel spiritual. 

The eggs have meaning for Christians but it was by no means started by them. 

The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient,with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old.   In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago. These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.

[lind9650]

I am not a religious person. I come from a multicultural family and never understood the huge divisions of religions.

After all, each and every one claims that there is only one God, but each God seems to be different.

Anyway, that is not what my OP is all about, it is about changeing a nations tradition for what reason?

Christmas and Easter we have had for 2000 yars, so why deny it now???

No other nation, religion or culture has changed their way of celbrating special religious days.

I asked the manager of our Supermarket at Christmas what all those Happy Holidays banners mean. No Merry Christmas was to be seen and not everyone has holidays over Christmas time. Lots of people have to work throughout that time and Happy Holidays is an insult to them.

I'm just nitpicking.

Erica

[***super_nova***]

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@lind9650 wrote:

Anyway, that is not what my OP is all about, it is about changeing a nations tradition for what reason?

Christmas and Easter we have had for 2000 yars, so why deny it now???

No other nation, religion or culture has changed their way of celbrating special religious days.

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If these days are days of religious significance as you say, then I think it is an insult to the religion to commercialise these holidays.  The point that these celebrations now have very different meaning that they had some 50+ years ago when I was a child, and totally different to the one in 300 something.  So why not disassociate the religious from the commercial properly?

Anyway Christmas is not the day Jesus was born, it is winter solstice, and was a pagan special day.  There is no mention of birth celebrations in the writings of early Christian writers such as Irenaeus (c. 130–200) or Tertullian (c. 160–225). Origen of Alexandria (c. 165–264) goes so far as to mock Roman celebrations of birth anniversaries, dismissing them as “pagan” practices—a strong indication that Jesus’ birth was not marked with similar festivities at that place and time.  The earliest mention of December 25 as Jesus’ birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century .  More recent studies have shown that many of the holiday’s modern trappings do reflect pagan customs borrowed much later, as Christianity expanded into northern and western Europe. The Christmas tree, for example, has been linked with late medieval druidic practices.

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

But what on earth does chocolate bunny and eggs has to do with Christianity?  Actually, not so long ago the eggs were not even chocolate but real eggs painted (and in many christian cultures still are) and the  bunny was just an imaginary critter that hid them in the garden for kids to find.  LOL

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No the bunny had nothing to do with hiding the eggs. The rabbit and eggs were symbols of fertility.

A bit of irony in our age of legal abortion and contraception to be giving symbols of fertility lol.

You're right though, neither have a place in Christianity, they are a holdover from pre-christian times.