Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores claims Church Of England.
Oh waaait a minute, I get it, Supermarkets think Easter has nothing to do with Christianity :wah:
Supermarkets are reluctant to stock specially branded Easter eggs which mention Jesus on the packaging, the Church of England said yesterday.
The chocolate eggs are being produced by the Church next Easter after it found that none of the 80million on sale this year had a religious theme.
See link below for entire article.
Read the public comments at the bottom of the page, they're sure to please a lot of people. :yh_rotfl
Supermarkets snub 'Christian' Easter eggs
Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
This may be a remarkably stupid question but what on earth do decorated eggs have to do with Christ's betrayal, passion or resurrection? I fail to see the connection other than that Easter was overlaid onto the perfectly normal celebration of the arrival of Spring, for which decorated eggs are obviously suitable and relevant. Whatever church it happens to be that's attempting to hijack the Spring festivities, bog off back into your own services and myob.
Nobody thinks Easter has nothing to do with Christianity. What has nothing to do with Christianity is Easter eggs.
Nobody thinks Easter has nothing to do with Christianity. What has nothing to do with Christianity is Easter eggs.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
spot;1336319 wrote: This may be a remarkably stupid question but what on earth do decorated eggs have to do with Christ's betrayal, passion or resurrection? I fail to see the connection other than that Easter was overlaid onto the perfectly normal celebration of the arrival of Spring, for which decorated eggs are obviously suitable and relevant. Whatever church it happens to be that's attempting to hijack the Spring festivities, bog off back into your own services and myob.
Nobody thinks Easter has nothing to do with Christianity. What has nothing to do with Christianity is Easter eggs.spot.
The smilies indicate I was jesting. I pointed one of them towards the public's comments in the site containing the full story also indicate I was jesting.
Millions of Christians associate the rolling of eggs down a hill as the rolling away of the stone from Christ's tomb.
Millions of Christians think otherwise.
Relax.
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Nobody thinks Easter has nothing to do with Christianity. What has nothing to do with Christianity is Easter eggs.spot.
The smilies indicate I was jesting. I pointed one of them towards the public's comments in the site containing the full story also indicate I was jesting.
Millions of Christians associate the rolling of eggs down a hill as the rolling away of the stone from Christ's tomb.
Millions of Christians think otherwise.
Relax.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
Touching on Spot's post some-what, I have always been perplexed at the Easter Bunny bit.
As the child of Tory's one was sent to bible class as a child so I do get the whole Easter significance but I just can not place the cute Easter Bunny any-where In my recollection of those classes.
As the child of Tory's one was sent to bible class as a child so I do get the whole Easter significance but I just can not place the cute Easter Bunny any-where In my recollection of those classes.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
binbag;1336325 wrote: The smilies indicate I was jesting.Ah. No, smilies don't appear on my screen. Eww smilies. Why on earth do people persist in thinking I have a sense of humour when it's transparently obvious I don't?
Here, you might like a couple of paragraphs from The Golden Bough as regards pre-Christian relics of the use of eggs, especially painted eggs, as Spring meets Summer. The festivities map onto the newly-arrived and enforced Christian calendar but they can't be classified as Christian ritual.In some German villages of Moravia, as in Jassnitz and Seitendorf, the young folk assemble on the third Sunday in Lent and fashion a straw-man, who is generally adorned with a fur cap and a pair of old leathern hose, if such are to be had. The effigy is then hoisted on a pole and carried by the lads and lasses out into the open fields. On the way they sing a song, in which it is said that they are carrying Death away and bringing dear Summer into the house, and with Summer the May and the flowers. On reaching an appointed place they dance in a circle round the effigy with loud shouts and screams, then suddenly rush at it and tear it to pieces with their hands. Lastly, the pieces are thrown together in a heap, the pole is broken, and fire is set to the whole. While it burns the troop dances merrily round it, rejoicing at the victory won by Spring; and when the fire has nearly died out they go to the householders to beg for a present of eggs wherewith to hold a feast, taking care to give as a reason for the request that they have carried Death out and away.
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In the preceding ceremonies the return of Spring, Summer, or Life, as a sequel to the expulsion of Death, is only implied or at most announced. In the following ceremonies it is plainly enacted. Thus in some parts of Bohemia the effigy of Death is drowned by being thrown into the water at sunset; then the girls go out into the wood and cut down a young tree with a green crown, hang a doll dressed as a woman on it, deck the whole with green, red, and white ribbons, and march in procession with their Líto (Summer) into the village, collecting gifts and singing - "Death swims in the water,
Spring comes to visit us,
With eggs that are red,
With yellow pancakes.
We carried Death out of the village,
We are carrying Summer into the village."
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623.txt
Here, you might like a couple of paragraphs from The Golden Bough as regards pre-Christian relics of the use of eggs, especially painted eggs, as Spring meets Summer. The festivities map onto the newly-arrived and enforced Christian calendar but they can't be classified as Christian ritual.In some German villages of Moravia, as in Jassnitz and Seitendorf, the young folk assemble on the third Sunday in Lent and fashion a straw-man, who is generally adorned with a fur cap and a pair of old leathern hose, if such are to be had. The effigy is then hoisted on a pole and carried by the lads and lasses out into the open fields. On the way they sing a song, in which it is said that they are carrying Death away and bringing dear Summer into the house, and with Summer the May and the flowers. On reaching an appointed place they dance in a circle round the effigy with loud shouts and screams, then suddenly rush at it and tear it to pieces with their hands. Lastly, the pieces are thrown together in a heap, the pole is broken, and fire is set to the whole. While it burns the troop dances merrily round it, rejoicing at the victory won by Spring; and when the fire has nearly died out they go to the householders to beg for a present of eggs wherewith to hold a feast, taking care to give as a reason for the request that they have carried Death out and away.
[...]
In the preceding ceremonies the return of Spring, Summer, or Life, as a sequel to the expulsion of Death, is only implied or at most announced. In the following ceremonies it is plainly enacted. Thus in some parts of Bohemia the effigy of Death is drowned by being thrown into the water at sunset; then the girls go out into the wood and cut down a young tree with a green crown, hang a doll dressed as a woman on it, deck the whole with green, red, and white ribbons, and march in procession with their Líto (Summer) into the village, collecting gifts and singing - "Death swims in the water,
Spring comes to visit us,
With eggs that are red,
With yellow pancakes.
We carried Death out of the village,
We are carrying Summer into the village."
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623.txt
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
Seems to me that Easter eggs, Easter bunnies (hares) and the Christian remembrance of Christs Crucifixion and Resurrection have all blurred into what we now think of as Easter weekend. Does it matter ? It all holds significance to someones round the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
If Easter eggs hold significance to everyone, perhaps the non-Christians in the UK would prefer to buy theirs from the supermarkets without any Christian propaganda on the box.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
binbag;1336317 wrote: Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores claims Church Of England.
Oh waaait a minute, I get it, Supermarkets think Easter has nothing to do with Christianity :wah:
Supermarkets are reluctant to stock specially branded Easter eggs which mention Jesus on the packaging, the Church of England said yesterday.
The chocolate eggs are being produced by the Church next Easter after it found that none of the 80million on sale this year had a religious theme.
See link below for entire article.
Read the public comments at the bottom of the page, they're sure to please a lot of people. :yh_rotfl
Supermarkets snub 'Christian' Easter eggs
Oh, goodness me ! They're not trying to bring religion into our Easter celebrations are they ????? Whatever will they try next ? Bring religion into our Christmas celebrations ?
Christmas is the time of year when most good people get 'rat-arsed' with booze, and distended with rich food, and pay the highest prices for the biggest 9-day-wonder toys for their children, and spend outrageous amounts of money to buy extortionately priced (later discarded) items for their partners and relatives to make up for all the bad things they have done to their partners and relatives that year ................................................. and all to "keep up with the Jones's".
Easter celebrations are also headed in that direction! So why try to stop it ? Why spoil peoples' enjoyment by bringing religion into it ? :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, I can't see why these supermarkets should make such a fuss, well I can - it's all to do with money! The supermarkets buy in items that they know will sell the best. An Easter egg that has religious wording on it, or on the box, they probably feel will only appeal to a minority of the buying public. They are in business, and their business is to make money. Simple really. A pity, but a fact.
This is, of course, what has happened to the Christmas celebration. Commercialism.
Oh waaait a minute, I get it, Supermarkets think Easter has nothing to do with Christianity :wah:
Supermarkets are reluctant to stock specially branded Easter eggs which mention Jesus on the packaging, the Church of England said yesterday.
The chocolate eggs are being produced by the Church next Easter after it found that none of the 80million on sale this year had a religious theme.
See link below for entire article.
Read the public comments at the bottom of the page, they're sure to please a lot of people. :yh_rotfl
Supermarkets snub 'Christian' Easter eggs
Oh, goodness me ! They're not trying to bring religion into our Easter celebrations are they ????? Whatever will they try next ? Bring religion into our Christmas celebrations ?
Christmas is the time of year when most good people get 'rat-arsed' with booze, and distended with rich food, and pay the highest prices for the biggest 9-day-wonder toys for their children, and spend outrageous amounts of money to buy extortionately priced (later discarded) items for their partners and relatives to make up for all the bad things they have done to their partners and relatives that year ................................................. and all to "keep up with the Jones's".
Easter celebrations are also headed in that direction! So why try to stop it ? Why spoil peoples' enjoyment by bringing religion into it ? :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, I can't see why these supermarkets should make such a fuss, well I can - it's all to do with money! The supermarkets buy in items that they know will sell the best. An Easter egg that has religious wording on it, or on the box, they probably feel will only appeal to a minority of the buying public. They are in business, and their business is to make money. Simple really. A pity, but a fact.
This is, of course, what has happened to the Christmas celebration. Commercialism.
I'm a Saga-lout, growing old disgracefully
Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
G#Gill;1336412 wrote: Oh, goodness me ! They're not trying to bring religion into our Easter celebrations are they ????? Whatever will they try next ? Bring religion into our Christmas celebrations ?
Christmas is the time of year when most good people get 'rat-arsed' with booze, and distended with rich food, and pay the highest prices for the biggest 9-day-wonder toys for their children, and spend outrageous amounts of money to buy extortionately priced (later discarded) items for their partners and relatives to make up for all the bad things they have done to their partners and relatives that year ................................................. and all to "keep up with the Jones's".
Easter celebrations are also headed in that direction! So why try to stop it ? Why spoil peoples' enjoyment by bringing religion into it ? :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, I can't see why these supermarkets should make such a fuss, well I can - it's all to do with money! The supermarkets buy in items that they know will sell the best. An Easter egg that has religious wording on it, or on the box, they probably feel will only appeal to a minority of the buying public. They are in business, and their business is to make money. Simple really. A pity, but a fact.
This is, of course, what has happened to the Christmas celebration. Commercialism.
You often generalise gill
I certainly dont buy presents for my loved ones to make up for bad stuff i have done to them, and i have no interest in keeping up with the Joneses:rolleyes:
Christmas is the time of year when most good people get 'rat-arsed' with booze, and distended with rich food, and pay the highest prices for the biggest 9-day-wonder toys for their children, and spend outrageous amounts of money to buy extortionately priced (later discarded) items for their partners and relatives to make up for all the bad things they have done to their partners and relatives that year ................................................. and all to "keep up with the Jones's".
Easter celebrations are also headed in that direction! So why try to stop it ? Why spoil peoples' enjoyment by bringing religion into it ? :rolleyes:
Seriously, though, I can't see why these supermarkets should make such a fuss, well I can - it's all to do with money! The supermarkets buy in items that they know will sell the best. An Easter egg that has religious wording on it, or on the box, they probably feel will only appeal to a minority of the buying public. They are in business, and their business is to make money. Simple really. A pity, but a fact.
This is, of course, what has happened to the Christmas celebration. Commercialism.
You often generalise gill
I certainly dont buy presents for my loved ones to make up for bad stuff i have done to them, and i have no interest in keeping up with the Joneses:rolleyes:FOC THREAD PART1
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
kazalala;1336413 wrote: You often generalise gill I certainly dont buy presents for my loved ones to make up for bad stuff i have done to them, and i have no interest in keeping up with the Joneses:rolleyes:
As you said - it was a generalisation ! (that makes two of us
):yh_eyerol
I certainly dont buy presents for my loved ones to make up for bad stuff i have done to them, and i have no interest in keeping up with the Joneses:rolleyes:As you said - it was a generalisation ! (that makes two of us
):yh_eyerolI'm a Saga-lout, growing old disgracefully
Christian' Easter eggs snubbed by stores.
oscar;1336327 wrote: Touching on Spot's post some-what, I have always been perplexed at the Easter Bunny bit.
As the child of Tory's one was sent to bible class as a child so I do get the whole Easter significance but I just can not place the cute Easter Bunny any-where In my recollection of those classes.
The hare is native to britain and a common sight in spring used to be cavorting hares (mad as a hare, the march hare) The bunny is NOT native to the British isles
Easter is the pagan spring festival that the christians laid claim to for the simple reason they couldn't stop people celebrating the start of spring - just as they couldn't stop people celebrating the winter solstice so they made that christmas. Rolling eggs is an old fertility rite (I think). Most christian festivals are at the same time as the pagan festivals they replaced, lammas, Michaelmas etc etc. all the ones that coincide with a change in the seasons are former pagan festivals.
Yet again the followers of a foreign religion that has been imposed on us are trying to corrupt our traditions.
As the child of Tory's one was sent to bible class as a child so I do get the whole Easter significance but I just can not place the cute Easter Bunny any-where In my recollection of those classes.
The hare is native to britain and a common sight in spring used to be cavorting hares (mad as a hare, the march hare) The bunny is NOT native to the British isles
Easter is the pagan spring festival that the christians laid claim to for the simple reason they couldn't stop people celebrating the start of spring - just as they couldn't stop people celebrating the winter solstice so they made that christmas. Rolling eggs is an old fertility rite (I think). Most christian festivals are at the same time as the pagan festivals they replaced, lammas, Michaelmas etc etc. all the ones that coincide with a change in the seasons are former pagan festivals.
Yet again the followers of a foreign religion that has been imposed on us are trying to corrupt our traditions.
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We have Bilbys here because the rabbit is shunned as an introduced rodent that hops around making holes all over the place.
Easter Bilby main page - The Australian Bilby Appreciation Society
Actually gmc. using the 25th of december was the romans answer to " We have too many christian converts how do we win them over? Allow him to share in the sun gods birthday".
Easter /spring celebrations just happen to coincide with nissen 14. And the thirty three and 1/3 days etc etc. The date of Jesus death.
Easter Bilby main page - The Australian Bilby Appreciation Society
Actually gmc. using the 25th of december was the romans answer to " We have too many christian converts how do we win them over? Allow him to share in the sun gods birthday".
Easter /spring celebrations just happen to coincide with nissen 14. And the thirty three and 1/3 days etc etc. The date of Jesus death.
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So mary magdalene and Mary mother of Jesus came back from Christ's grave and bust in the door and proclaim to all the apostles that Jesus has risen from the grave. Upon hearing this Peter looks at James startled, but then John says "well looks like we better hide the eggs we only have enough for us and Jesus always eats the eggs". Paul then comes up with the idea that if they painted them to look like something else it will help. When Jesus finaly shows up he looks at his 12 apostles and says " You guys hid the eggs from me didn't you?" so he raises his hand and turns them all to chocolate bunnies.