Easter is weird
PJ_Soul
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I don't get Easter. Why do people who aren't even practicing Christians celebrate Easter, and why oh why are there bunnies and chickens, and a Spring version of Santa that only brings candy and plush dolls??? Easter seems to me like the most holy and important religious holiday for Christians, and a gruesome one too if you include the whole Good Friday thing. Why did they allow what is supposed to be the observance of their Messiah's torture and death and celebration of his resurrection from the dead to become their saviour get hijacked by chocolate? It's like taking Ramadan and making it the month of county fair fun complete with pie eating contests and petty gambling.
So what the fuck? I mean, Christmas is bad enough, but at least there are still nativity scenes and religious songs and stuff to remind people that Jesus has something to do with it on some level. I'm an Atheist, and I'M offended by what Easter is (at least in North America). Anyway, I just think it's weird, and every time someone says happy Easter to me I think about it (and then tell them I'm an Atheist and don't celebrate it justbso I can see the confusion when they try to connect my religious status to Easter... it usually doesn't connect!).
So what the fuck? I mean, Christmas is bad enough, but at least there are still nativity scenes and religious songs and stuff to remind people that Jesus has something to do with it on some level. I'm an Atheist, and I'M offended by what Easter is (at least in North America). Anyway, I just think it's weird, and every time someone says happy Easter to me I think about it (and then tell them I'm an Atheist and don't celebrate it justbso I can see the confusion when they try to connect my religious status to Easter... it usually doesn't connect!).
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It's what it's allllllll about
Ever wonder why there are so many religions? They are still creating them to this day to make money
I'm all about spirituality, but religion is the biggest sham
the celebration atleast the way is our year has to do with market..same as christmas,birthdays,valentine etc..
money needs to be spent..is how things are..
from the moment you dont believe in God,there is no point someone to explain to u what easter means when he believes..how he/she connects...
i have i gay friend..he explain me that he likes boys..i dont get it..im into women..
i found boobs amazing ..i try to explain him....he dont get it....
so for me its cool..what ever people believe ..or into...
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we need a holiday for that
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Totally agree with you. "Holiday Christians" are everywhere. They come out once a year all pretty to church, shout 'Hallelujah', and don't come back til next year. But the truth of the matter is Jesus is real. How do I know? Faith. Restored my marriage. Now I get to raise and watch my two daughters grow up. Some stranger isn't going to raise them. Your "head knowledge" is cool but highly ignorant and ungrateful. More power to you. Your Atheist beliefs are your right. But that doesn't take away the undeniable fact that He exists. He has always existed and will continue existing no matter what you say or believe in. Jesus was in fact against religion. He tore down every decree and false doctrine established by the Pharisees. In James 1:27 says 'Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.' So what makes you a good person? The other reason I know he exists is because if he didn't, you wouldn't of wrote your comments here. See, no other god causes so much anger as Jesus. No one gets pissed when people talk about Buddha, Allah,Hare Krishna, L. Ron Hubbard, or any other god. But when it's about Jesus... well, you know the story. Happy Just Living
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Well you Aussies just take the cake. Here the rest of the world has chocolate bunnies and you have... chocolate people?
Hmm, wait a minute... come to think of it... not a bad idea. All that chocolate, extra calories to store up for winter Down Under. I take it back- that's brilliant! Good show, Loulou!
I'm not a religious person, I guess I would be labeled Agnostic if push came to shove, but what's the point of being offended by other people's beliefs? If it's not your thing, that's fine, but why does it offend you?
You just need to relax and not get mad if somebody wishes you a Happy Easter, Merry Christmas, or says God Bless You after you sneeze. They're not trying to convert you, they're just being friendly the way they know how. If somebody says that to you and you feel the need to confront them with the fact that you're an atheist, that's your problem. It's your problem that it offends you. Most of us can let that sort of thing roll down our back and take it as somebody just being friendly and not as an opening to start a religious debate.
What is the meaning of Easter?
Easter is the day when we celebrate Jesus Christ rising from the dead. Jesus is the Son of God and heroically gave His life to die for our sins. On the third day after He died -- the day we now celebrate as Easter Sunday -- His friends went to His grave, and found that He had risen from the dead. They saw an angel who told them, "Don't be afraid! I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as He said it would happen."
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We are completely unreligious but all of my kids know why most holidays are celebrated.
Why would he be offended by the commercialization of a holiday he doesn't believe in? I would think that's the concern of Christians.
And I wasn't just talking about that quote, but the part afterward when he said that when people tell him Happy Easter he goes into the whole "I'm An Atheist" thing.
The bottom line remains, if you are being offended by something that doesn't concern you, then you need to relax.
It doesn't offend me. I figure if people want to buy candy and eggs, let them. I don't think it necessarily diminishes or takes anything away from the holiday, although when I was a kid I was really confused as to what Easter was actually about, since all I knew was egg hunts and chocolate bunnies.
I watched a thing about how they make chocolate bunnies on the History channel but they didn't explain the connection between rabbits, junk food, and Jesus's body coming up missing.
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Here is an article that explains the origins of the Easter Bunny.... Eggs.... And decorating.
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http://news.discovery.com/history/what- ... 20406.html
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