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Why no complaints over "the war on Easter"?

Ladewig

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Ladewig
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This year I saw several retailers selling themed Easter baskets. These themes ranged from Barbi to "Pirates of the Caribbean" (with eyepatch, spyglass, and chocolate coins). Surely this type of Easter basket is much more offensive to the fundamentalists than saying "happy holidays" in December is. Why no complaints?
 
Easter's just not that big a deal, I guess, in many spheres. The retailers don't make that big a fuss about it, for one thing.

You'd think, given the theology, that the event of Christ's death and resurrection would be much more significant than his birth. Ah...but then, someone did die, so celebration seems inappropriate. It seems more fitting that the weekend be more subdued.

Not sure just why this all is, but congrats and thanks for raising such an interesting point!
 
Ladewig said:
This year I saw several retailers selling themed Easter baskets. These themes ranged from Barbi to "Pirates of the Caribbean" (with eyepatch, spyglass, and chocolate coins). Surely this type of Easter basket is much more offensive to the fundamentalists than saying "happy holidays" in December is. Why no complaints?
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Wasn't Klaus Barbi a notorious war criminal? I should think someone would protest over that. (I kid! I kid because I love!)
 
Even the most rabid Christians bow before the realization that Easter is about the one true god, Chocobunny. May He continue to bless us with deliciousness, in both Holy Hollow and Sanctified Solid forms!
 
There's nothing holy about hollow. :mad:

Hollow = fraude

And for that matter...

Milk chocolate = chocolate cut to reduce the price (if you need fats to grease it up, there are many better things to use). Hershey, turning "Milk" chocolate into a selling point to the commoners is like selling cocain, bragging "now cut with baby powder!"

And beans in chili is to cut the amount of meat, again a cost savings for the common man.

You and your hollow bunnies, milk chocolate, and bean-laden chili can go live in Franco-American Hell watching Battle of the Planets reruns with Cheop's root-toot-toot voice re-dubbed to be more politically correct for all eternity! :mad:
 
The fundamentalists don't care what's in the baskets, as long as they are called EASTER baskets. Try calling them "spring baskets" and see what happens.
 
Easter was a holiday long before Christians got hold of it. It's been about the birth of spring -- the New Year (April 1st). Hence the bunnies and eggs. What's mentioned in the OP is more an affront to the Pagan beliefs than the Christian ones.
 
Beerina said:
...watching Battle of the Planets reruns with Cheop's root-toot-toot voice re-dubbed to be more politically correct for all eternity!...
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How dare you besmirch Battle of the Planets!

For the record: I have only ever watched the root-toot-toot version.
 
Hey, remember back in the eighties when all the Christians wanted to decommercialize Christmas? Ah, the good ole days. Don't worry, they'll run out of things to do and get around to Easter sooner or later.
 
strathmeyer said:
Hey, remember back in the eighties when all the Christians wanted to decommercialize Christmas? Ah, the good ole days. Don't worry, they'll run out of things to do and get around to Easter sooner or later.
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Easter has, and always will be about BUNNIES! Cute little fluffy chubby wubby BUNNIES. If the Christians try to de-bunnytize Easter, it's going to be the end of civilization as they know it! :p
 
"Easter was a holiday long before Christians got hold of it."
The section about this in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" is immensely entertaining!

LOL
 
Moon-Spinner said:
Easter has, and always will be about BUNNIES! Cute little fluffy chubby wubby BUNNIES. If the Christians try to de-bunnytize Easter, it's going to be the end of civilization as they know it! :p
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This looks like a job for The Hare Club For Men!

Michael
 
I like hollow chocobunnies. That way I can sensuously insert my tongue into the mostly-intact skull of the chocobunny after eating the ears. I like to imagine the chocobunny is still conscious at that point, but too traumatized to move.

Is that disturbing? I also suggested once that they should make hollow chocobunnies with a few chocoorgans inside. Not all of them, just the brain, and a heart, and a liver. And maybe for some of the chocobunnies, another smaller embryonic chocobunny inside. Or joke chocobunnies with a chocolightbulb in an appropriate place. Or a cannibal chocobunny with another chocobunny's ears or paw in its tummy!

Okay, even I'm able to recognize that as disturbing. Still, it would hilarious to see people's reactions.
 
slingblade said:
Easter's just not that big a deal, I guess, in many spheres. The retailers don't make that big a fuss about it, for one thing.

You'd think, given the theology, that the event of Christ's death and resurrection would be much more significant than his birth. Ah...but then, someone did die, so celebration seems inappropriate. It seems more fitting that the weekend be more subdued.

Not sure just why this all is, but congrats and thanks for raising such an interesting point!
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Easter always struck me as a bizarre holiday when I was a kid. It was the remembrance of the brutal death (and alleged resurrection) of a person, but was yet juxtaposed with cute pastel colors, bunnies, eggs and baby chicks. I don't think there is a more bizaare holiday in America.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I like hollow chocobunnies. That way I can sensuously insert my tongue into the mostly-intact skull of the chocobunny after eating the ears. I like to imagine the chocobunny is still conscious at that point, but too traumatized to move.

Is that disturbing? I also suggested once that they should make hollow chocobunnies with a few chocoorgans inside. Not all of them, just the brain, and a heart, and a liver. And maybe for some of the chocobunnies, another smaller embryonic chocobunny inside. Or joke chocobunnies with a chocolightbulb in an appropriate place. Or a cannibal chocobunny with another chocobunny's ears or paw in its tummy!

Okay, even I'm able to recognize that as disturbing. Still, it would hilarious to see people's reactions.
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You're kind of tame, Monkey. Planned Parenthood suggests a fun Spring Festival consumption of chocobunnies in another way.

Make a small hole in the end of a chocobunny and fill the hollow space with semi liquid cherry puree. Dye a large soft taco pink and put the chocobunny inside with more cherry puree. Serve on a flat stainless steel tray along with a pitcher of Bloody Mary's which is to be consumed entirely before eating. Provide surgical mask and latex exam gloves, which are donned after Bloody Mary consumption.

Massage the chocobunny out of the pink tortilla along with the surrounding cherry puree (caution, some mess is to be expected) until it's cute little ears and head are completely exposed. Crush the skull, and use your pursed lips to provide a seal while you suck out all it's cherry puree brains. You may either deliver the rest of the deceased baby bunny from the taco and consume it or chop it up and burn it. If still not satisfied, have another and another and another and another. The more the merrier!:jaw-dropp

Remember. It's not a chocobunny. It's a right to choose.
 
slingblade said:
You'd think, given the theology, that the event of Christ's death and resurrection would be much more significant than his birth.
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Actually, I fail to see how Easter has any theological significance. According to Christian theology, it was on Good Friday that humanity was redeemed. Easter was just an encore.
 
FarmallMTA said:
You're kind of tame, Monkey. Planned Parenthood suggests a fun Spring Festival consumption of chocobunnies in another way.

Make a small hole in the end of a chocobunny and fill the hollow space with semi liquid cherry puree. Dye a large soft taco pink and put the chocobunny inside with more cherry puree. Serve on a flat stainless steel tray along with a pitcher of Bloody Mary's which is to be consumed entirely before eating. Provide surgical mask and latex exam gloves, which are donned after Bloody Mary consumption.

Massage the chocobunny out of the pink tortilla along with the surrounding cherry puree (caution, some mess is to be expected) until it's cute little ears and head are completely exposed. Crush the skull, and use your pursed lips to provide a seal while you suck out all it's cherry puree brains. You may either deliver the rest of the deceased baby bunny from the taco and consume it or chop it up and burn it. If still not satisfied, have another and another and another and another. The more the merrier!:jaw-dropp

Remember. It's not a chocobunny. It's a right to choose.
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I'm sure on your planet, this sort of thing is considered clever or amusing.

Please don't delay your return there.
 
I'm complaining! Why no holiday for Norther, Wester, and Souther?
 
Ladewig said:
This year I saw several retailers selling themed Easter baskets. These themes ranged from Barbi to "Pirates of the Caribbean" (with eyepatch, spyglass, and chocolate coins). Surely this type of Easter basket is much more offensive to the fundamentalists than saying "happy holidays" in December is. Why no complaints?
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It's one thing to declare war on a holiday that features an obese elf breaking into your house and making out with Mommy.

But a Bunny? With those whiskers, the ears? Fur ball of a tail? Twitchy little nose, and its foot is good luck, guaranteed? Plus it's impossible to frown while saying the word "bunny"?

That's as ridiculous as declaring war on all those lovable, cuddly and fuzzy wuzzy witches and goblins and vampires and skeletons and ghouls of Halloween.
 
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