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

[tasfleur]

But what on earth does chocolate bunny and eggs has to do with Christianity?

Absolutely nothing, chocolate is just a symptom , so to speak.  The point is that Easter and Christmas (albeit randomly dated) has been slowly but surely changed into something completely different.

I often wonder what the person of Jesus himself would think of it all, most likely horrified.

[debra9275]

I hadn't noticed Easter was missing .. but now that you mention it. I see it is

[moonflyte]

So well put Tasfleur  but some don't want to hear it.

History tells us that what is happening now eg, a jihad that is horrific, will take hold if good people do nothing, I'm a christian, I believe treating people humanely and hoping they will do the same. That is not the push we are seeing in Christian countries all over the world, they are under threat and if nothing is done I'm afraid it will be filled by the black hole of jihad and death to all who don't adhere.

We see every day the dangerous rubbing out the beliefs of all who don't fit with their ideas.

[raptor_rebooted]

Christmas and Easter has long stopped being a religious holidays. 

nonsense

millions attend easter and christmas

church services, even in china ! 

Chinese Christians flock to churches for Easter services

http://www.ucanews.com/news/chinese-christians-flock-to-churches-for-easter-services/75589

[go-tazz]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

The retailers do not care why people buy their goods, they just want them to buy.

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A 50 gram Easter egg was $4 in one of the shops and a 200 gram block of chocolate was $3.50,(more

than 4 times the price).

Just buy them a block of chocolate instead,(instead of the 3 or 4 eggs that some get)

There's a new market for someone,(just make up a colourful wrapper size piece of paper with Easter

chocolate written on it that can be wrapped around a block of chocolate)

Easter is a high profit period for the chocolate makers and they will always look at ways to increase those

profits,(so "hiding" the word Easter is a ploy to make it more acceptable to non Christians).

[***super_nova***]

How many millions out of the 7.4 billions of world population?  Small percentage.  But I am not talking about China, I am talking about Australia.  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.

[raptor_rebooted]

But what on earth does chocolate bunny and eggs has to do with Christianity?

egg is an easter symbol, i dont

think it matters so much these

days what type of egg it is.

in Christianity, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected. In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion."  This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into through Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. This Christian use of eggs may have been influenced by practices in "pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete".

as for the easter bunny -

all i know is that he brings

easter eggs 

[raptor_rebooted]

How many millions out of the 7.4 billions of world population?  Small percentage.

how many billions of christians

are there in the world?

if there are only 2 days of the year

they attend church, its christmas

and easter - because they consider

them important, obligatory holy days.

But I am not talking about China, I am talking about Australia.

australian churches are packed

on easter and christmas - because

australian christians consider them

important religious/holy days.

to say that easter stopped being

a religious holiday a long time ago,

is complete nonsense. 

[raptor_rebooted]

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@tasfleur wrote:

It could be argued that christianity is being slowly eliminated and undermined via the 'politically correct' channels;   'channels' meaning those who have a vested interest in seeing it disappear, not just the holidays either.

I'm no christian because some of what I have seen via that religion leaves me cold and shuddering, however, that does not mean I agree with what is going on.   There are those who are working vigorously to push it (religious freedom) out of democratic countries, which will leave a huge cultural black hole ultimately ... those black holes may very well end up filled with a very different and violent culture that spreads it's savagery and radicalism.

It isn't that christianity doesn't have it's own cruel behaviours, history dictates that right up to now, but I am of the opinion that it is the lesser danger (depending on where one lives and which cults are active).

Easter bunnies, easter buns, easter whatever has become a commercial entity, just like christmas, but it doesn't have to be like that, genuine christians should and could work harder to make it what it should be.

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good post.

we don't have to believe or  practice

certain traditions to appreciate them.

our country is full of interesting cultural/

religious traditions and we need to do

what we can to preserve them. 

[raptor_rebooted]

ramadan is getting more commercialised

check out the DKNY ramadan collection.

as it becomes more and more 

commercialised - will it stop being

a religious holiday?  i dont think so.

at least i hope not.

The biggest commercialization of Ramadan is concentrated in countries where Muslims are in the majority. The streets of major cities in the Middle East and South Asia are filled with billboards about Ramadan. One McDonald's ad in Islamabad shows a mosque calling on people to "Dine Divine."

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?410721-Commercialisation-of-Ramadan-Big-boom-for-retailers