Wtf Is Easter All About?..

[MERV SKILTON]

Big MERV's MASS DEBATE about EASTER

Who is The Easter Bunny?..

Do you think The EASTER BUNNY has become too violent?

What happens if you eat meat on Good Friday?

Who is Bad Boy Bunny

What's with chocolate eggs, are they maybe just big oblong rabbit poos?.. and where does Jesus fit in with chocolate?

[gravelrash]

I too have always thought its pretty screwed really.

Face it, A bunny rabbit to deliver eggs!!! Let the chicken deliver them instead!!!!!

[JimmyXR6T04]

c'mon guys, didn't you ever learn religion at school.. a bunny rabbit and egg is the symbol of new life (root like a rabbit), and jesus's rising of the dead was new life

Now, as for chocolate... that's seriously just the supermarkets cashing in on the "occasion"

The older I get, the less and less I enjoy christmas and easter

[RHR]

Im hearing you there.. My bro and I have a great idea fro xmas.. Its called the $50 hand shake where no money is exchanged. However I still buy prezzies for all the other folk in the family

Edited 03/04/07 08:41 AM by Dagabond

[XR6T8080]

c'mon guys, didn't you ever learn religion at school.. a bunny rabbit and egg is the symbol of new life (root like a rabbit), and jesus's rising of the dead was new life

Now, as for chocolate... that's seriously just the supermarkets cashing in on the "occasion"

The older I get, the less and less I enjoy christmas and easter

We had religion, I went to non-RE classes - you could say im ahead of my time...

[leigh86]

It's a long weekend. Don't complain. We don't get enough of them.

[mbjunior99]

It's a long weekend. Don't complain. We don't get enough of them.

You got that right!

[phantomchic]

Easter, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity). It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which his followers believe occurred on the third day after his death by crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33 (see Good Friday).

Easter also refers to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, from Easter Sunday through Pentecost; and, in the Roman Catholic Church, to the eight-day feast beginning on Easter Day called the Octave of Easter.

Western Christianity

In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday.

The week before Easter is very special in the Christian tradition: the Sunday before is Palm Sunday, and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for "Three Days"). In some countries, Easter lasts two days, with the second called "Easter Monday." The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with "Easter," e.g. Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, etc. Easter Saturday is therefore the Saturday after Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called Holy Saturday. Many churches start celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the Easter Vigil.

Eastertide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later.

History

Decorated eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem.

[aiboart]

Easter is the echo of the pagan northern hemispehere spring bonk fest. Hence the allusions to fertility, birth and rebith and the use of fertility symbols such as rabbits, eggs and chickens.

Chritianity's idea of 'rebirth' and resurrection then plugged into the existing pagan framework of celebration and ritual. One never completely replaced the other. The persistance of tradition is an intriugign thing and this is the normal way in which religions and other systems partially surplant and partially accreate to each other.

The christian traditions themselves are of course modifications of the earlier jewish passover traditions. I bet if you did deep enough you will find Sumerian and Zoroastrian echos in the jewish passoever traditions… there are certainly plenty of other examples of this in the jewish tradition.

Consumerism then plugged into the christian an jewish traditions with chocolates and packaged holidays and now all coexist in the glorious chaotic phenonena we know today.

Christmas was the northern hemispere mid winter (winter solstice) festival.

If you live at high lattitude in a snowy clime and it is light for 4 hours a day and your survival is daily threatened by freezing to death or by simply running out of food the turning point of winter is something to celebrate.

Further, you all have cabin fever, A party is a dam good idea.

Christians plugged into the existing framework of celebrations.

Thence consumerism plugged into that.

Coca Cola invented Santa Claus in about 1920. (really)

Now the Japanese and Chinese are getting into easter and christmas, I love it.

Regards,

aa

Edited 06/04/07 12:35 AM by aiboart

[MERV SKILTON]

I too have always thought its pretty screwed really.

Face it, A bunny rabbit to deliver eggs!!! Let the chicken deliver them instead!!!!!

now that's a much a better idea.. let a bloody Chicken do the job!!.. why not??