War on Easter?

[Tyo]

The war on Christmas is on hold for another year, but Easter will be here before we know it. Need some ideas for a good anti-Easter crusade. Gotta drive this one underground before it gets out of control like Christmas did.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. How about: "Easter: A Great Time to Celebrate Capital Punishment!" n/t

[EFerrari]

2. "Stop the murder of innocent eggs."

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

34. Isn't eating an egg like eating a fetus?

If we can trot out snowflake babies to keep chronically ill me from seeing the results of scientific research, we can pll that twist of logic off too, can't we?

[EFerrari]

37. Millions of chickens murdered, everyday and the crime salted and peppered.

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

38. I prefer Tabasco myself.

:rofl:

[novalib]

3. SACRIFICE A BUNNY!!!!

I suggest that we PUBLICLY SACRIFICE a small rabbit to Mother Earth!!!

And announce that we are doing so in order to ATONE for OUR CRIMES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT!!!

(It's something I do every year at Easter -- only I do it with a few select friends.)

[China_cat]

5. Complete with Hassenpfeffer recipes.

[novalib]

11. I Prefer...

I prefer WELSH RABBIT!

Or BUNNY a la KING!

Sometimes, I have tried to make Peiking Bunny.

And Rabbit Welllington is oh, so GOOD!

[Pab Sungenis]

25. Welsh rabbit has no rabbit in it.

It's cheese, beer, and toast.

[Bridget Burke]

27. How about a chocolate bunny?

Bittersweet for me!

[tyedyeto]

4. Nope... the next Hallmark Holiday War is Valentine's Day. n/t

[Tyo]

14. Forgot about that one.

I suppose it's religious in a way. I mean I guess there was a St Valentine but I'm not quite sure what he has to do with it.

My view of Valentine's Day as currently celebrated is that we need to take Hallmark and Godiva out of the picture and focus on the really important stuff.:evilgrin:

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Why have a war on Eostre?

Eostre is a beautiful pagan ritual when we honor the great Mother Goddess of the Saxons and celebrate the rebirth and renewal seen in the coming spring. Eggs and rabbits, totems of fertility, are common symbols of Eostre, both the goddess and her festival, and thus make for a beautiful ritual.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

Why would we want to declare war on that?

[rurallib]

7. See! See! the pagans have distorted the story of Christ's resurrection!

The true story of Easter is the remembrance of how Christ rose from the dead, saw his shadow and declared winter was over and then went back in the tomb to eat some boiled colored eggs and chocolate bunnies.

[Tyo]

18. Those Pagans twist everything around n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Because that is our job. Why do we always eat our own?

:)

[Tyo]

9. We can not make exceptions

Our mission must be the complete and total secularization of public life All evidence of religion must be removed from public view. All public expression of faith of any sort must be banned.

On the other hand Eoster sounds very nice. What's the food like?

[novalib]

12. Bunny With Fried Eggs.

I JUST LOVE the Annual Eoster Feast!!

After we SACRIFICE a RABBIT, we make all or some of the following dishes:

Welsh Rabbit.

Bunny a la King.

Peiking Bunny.

Rabbit Wellington.

Served with EGGS -- scrambled, poached, or hardboiled, these dishes a REAL TREATS!!!!

[Tyo]

16. I donno....

Sound a little too harey for me.

[loudestchick]

23. Well, there's also the children hunting for eggs

at a time when winter stores would have been depleted. Finding a nest of eggs would have been a nutritional boon for hunter/gatherer populations in early spring.

But what about the whole egg symboling the soul? bunch of soul devourers...all of ya'. I prefer mine deviled...ummmm deviled soul!

[stubtoe]

26. Bring back the Festival of Eostre!

Perhaps we should replace these Christian "overwrites" with the original holy day rituals of the pagans.

[Pab Sungenis]

28. Then the Fundies and Bill O RLY will go on TV and say

"It's OUR holiday, we stole it from the pagans fair and square, and WE WANT IT BACK."

[cosmik debris]

10. Who could complain about Easter, it has something for everyone

TWO astronomical events: full moon and vernal equinox.

TWO fertility symbols: eggs and rabbits.

Virgin Sacrifice AND ritual cannibalism.

How can that be a bad thing?

[donsu]

13. I never understood the relasionship of rabbits/eggs/rising from the dead

fantasy.

rabbits?

hard boiled eggs decorated in pretty colors? surrounded by chocolate candy?

and jesus apparently rising from the dead (voodoo) myth?

[unpossibles]

19. they are all symbolic of death and rebirth

rabbits because they are naturally fecund

eggs are about the next generation

and a god-figure who is sacrificed and is reborn is common in many mythologies.


As for the pretty colors, I see those as basically symbolizing Spring flowers (this is a guess), which is another fertility symbol. And who doesn't get horny eating chocolate? lol...

[EFerrari]

15. The main thing is, we have to say "Happy Something Else"

"Happy Spring Training" or "Happy Spring Break"

[unpossibles]

20. Happy Vernal Equinox? n/t

[novalib]

21. ACTUALLY.....

It would be this:

HAPPY First Sunday AFTER the First Full Moon AFTER the Vernal Equinox.

(Except, of course, if the person is Orthodox!!!!)

[unpossibles]

24. dang it. True, but not as catchy.... we need to come up with something

how about happy Fertility Day?

[EFerrari]

31. Happy Free Love and Fertility Festival

:rofl:

[Az]

17. Well if your aim is to offend....

You could always wish people a Happy Dead Guy On A Stick Day.

[EFerrari]

22. I prefer Dead but Not Really Day. n/t

[MisterP]

29. don't forget Orthodox Christmas, coming up Sunday

but U.S. fundies don't care about 96% of Christianity, let alone the 8% that are Orthodox...

[knitter4democracy]

36. Old Calendar Orthodox.

Most American Orthodox are on the new calendar, even our church, which is under the Russian Patriarch.

[bmbmd]

30. That rabbit's got a mean streak

a mile wide.

[EFerrari]

32. So, is that the part you eat or the part you don't eat?

[LWolf]

33. No need to war on "easter."

It's a seasonal festival, celebrating the flourishing, fertile new life that bursts forth from the sleeping, seemingly "dead" earth at springtime. Hence rabbits, eggs, and "coming to life."

If you need to war on something, start with Valentine's Day. I cannot, for the life of me, find any real reason for it, and I barely get through the day each year, gritting my teeth at the obsessive-compulsive need for kids to toss around cheap, pre-printed, mostly not signed, rarely actually read after glancing at the cartoon character, "valentine's." Other than an excuse to overdose on candy and waste a school day frantically passing valentines, eating sugar, and worrying about who gave what to whom, what is the point?

Go to war on Valentine's Day. Please.

[mikeytherat]

35. Here's an opening salvo from The Onion - enjoy!

mikey_the_rat

[Parche]

39. war on easter

Eggselent idea