Offended by Easter Eggs??

[jimlintott]

I was in a mall today and struck up a converstaion with a guy who was hanging some decorations. Plain easter egg type colours but no eggs. He said that they don't put up eggs because some people might be offended.

I laughed "Who would be offended by eggs?"

Well some googling revealed that I am the one offended by easter eggs (http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14163580.htm). I was quite surprised. I like pisankas.

I'm not really offended by any religous symbols. Some religous people offend my but not the symbols.

Anyone offended by the easter bunny?

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

I'm offended by how their chocolatey goodness affects my waistline.

[bluess]

I am offended by eggs, easter or otherwise, which are thrown at me. Or the ones which have gone bad.

[Pauliesonne]

as long as the easter egg isn't moulded into the shape of Jerry Falwell's head I will be happy....but even if it is, I'll eat it, then I'll take a photo of the feces it turned into and email it to Jerry Falwell!

[Mercutio]

I find it very hard to be offended by foods.

[brodski]

I was in a mall today and struck up a converstaion with a guy who was hanging some decorations. Plain easter egg type colours but no eggs. He said that they don't put up eggs because some people might be offended.

I laughed "Who would be offended by eggs?"

Well some googling revealed that I am the one offended by easter eggs (http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14163580.htm). I was quite surprised. I like pisankas.

I'm not really offended by any religous symbols. Some religous people offend my but not the symbols.

Anyone offended by the easter bunny?
I like the idea that "non Christians" would be offended by Easter eggs, WTF Christan beliefs got to do with eggs, or the word "easter" for that matter?
Anyone who thinks these celebrations are routed in Christianity should be forced to watch "the wicker man" until they get the point.

[supercorgi]

I like bunnies, eggs, and chicks but I'm mad that once again it's us evil atheists who are blamed for stomping over everyone else's good clean fun. :mad:

Hey bunnies, eggs, chicks they're all pagan springtime symbols that Xianity has co-opted.

[Genesius]

I like the idea that "non Christians" would be offended by Easter eggs, WTF Christan beliefs got to do with eggs, or the word "easter" for that matter?
Anyone who thinks these celebrations are routed in Christianity should be forced to watch "the wicker man" until they get the point.
C'mon, Brodski, even blondes know the connection. Haven't you heard this one?

Three blondes died and are at the pearly gates of heaven. St. Peter tells them that they can enter the gates if they can answer one simple question. St. Peter asks the first blonde, "What is Easter?" The blonde replies, "Oh, that's easy! It's the holiday in November when everyone gets together, eats turkey, and are thankful and stuff..." "Wrong!," replies St. Peter, and proceeds to ask the second blonde the same question, "What is Easter?" The second blonde replies, "Easter is the holiday in December when we put up a nice tree, exchange presents, and drink eggnog." St. Peter looks at the second blonde, shakes his head in disgust, tells her she's wrong, and then peers over his glasses at the third blonde and asks, "What is Easter?" The third blonde smiles confidently and looks St. Peter in the eyes, "I know what Easter is." "Oh?" says St. Peter, incredulously. "Easter is the Christian holiday, that coincides with the Jewish celebration of Passover. Jesus and his disciples were eating at the last supper. Then the Romans took him to be crucified and he was stabbed in the side, made to wear a crown of thorns, and was hung on a cross with nails through his hands. He was buried in a nearby cave which was sealed off by a large boulder." St. Peter smiles broadly with delight. Then the third blonde continues, "Every year the boulder is moved aside so that Jesus can come out...and, if he sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter."

[tkingdoll]

Easter eggs are generally made of chocolate.

As a woman, my religion is Chocotarianism. Therefore, anyone offended by Easter eggs is a blasphemer and must be shaved, coated in rich chocolatey goodness and eaten with a spoon.

[brodski]

Easter eggs are generally made of chocolate.

As a woman, my religion is Chocotarianism. Therefore, anyone offended by Easter eggs is a blasphemer and must be shaved, coated in rich chocolatey goodness and eaten with a spoon.
Except that most of what you pay for in easter eggs is packaging and empty space the quality of the chocolate is usually pretty poor too. These aspects of easter eggs offend me, which is why I plan on buying Mrs Brodski a number of bars of Green and Blacks, and making some easter eggs.

[alfaniner]

Did you ever see that Easter Egg on the Jay & Silent Bob DVD? It's as close to being offended by them as I ever have.

What?

Oh. Never mind.

[UserGoogol]

Easter eggs are generally made of chocolate.

As a woman, my religion is Chocotarianism. Therefore, anyone offended by Easter eggs is a blasphemer and must be shaved, coated in rich chocolatey goodness and eaten with a spoon.

Milk, Dark, or White?

[Hagrok]

Errr, I always thought Easter Eggs were dyed hardboiled eggs. That's the way we did it when I was a kid, anyway.

[tkingdoll]

Milk, Dark, or White?

Milk, although my religion welcomes all colours. We do not discriminate.

[tkingdoll]

Except that most of what you pay for in easter eggs is packaging and empty space the quality of the chocolate is usually pretty poor too. These aspects of easter eggs offend me, which is why I plan on buying Mrs Brodski a number of bars of Green and Blacks, and making some easter eggs.

That's a nice idea. Make me one?

*flutters nerdy eyelashes*

[Oolon Colluphid]

Easter eggs are generally made of chocolate.

As a woman, my religion is Chocotarianism. Therefore, anyone offended by Easter eggs is a blasphemer and must be shaved, coated in rich chocolatey goodness and eaten with a spoon.

Eh, in that case I'm extremely offended by Easter eggs. Extremely offended! :mad:

[brodski]

That's a nice idea. Make me one?

*flutters nerdy eyelashes*

OK, It will have to be after easter though, I've only got the one mold.

[ruach1]

I was in a mall today and struck up a converstaion with a guy who was hanging some decorations. Plain easter egg type colours but no eggs. He said that they don't put up eggs because some people might be offended.

I laughed "Who would be offended by eggs?"

Well some googling revealed that I am the one offended by easter eggs (http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14163580.htm). I was quite surprised. I like pisankas.

I'm not really offended by any religous symbols. Some religous people offend my but not the symbols.

Anyone offended by the easter bunny?

Yes. When I bite into a chocolate one and the darned thing turns out to be hollow. :bunnyface

Insert commentary on religion or lack thereof here: ____________

[Pauliesonne]

Yes. When I bite into a chocolate one and the darned thing turns out to be hollow. :bunnyface

Insert commentary on religion or lack thereof here: _extremely pissed off___________...

[ruach1]

I like the idea that "non Christians" would be offended by Easter eggs, WTF Christan beliefs got to do with eggs, or the word "easter" for that matter?
Anyone who thinks these celebrations are routed in Christianity should be forced to watch "the wicker man" until they get the point.
Eggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs

Easter comes from the pre-Christian Anglic goddess Eyarstar (sp?) who was a fertility figure worshipped during the spring season. The word was appropriated into English to refer to the main Christian spring celebration for reasons which are obvious: to convert both people and idea to Christianity.

[Pauliesonne]

The name of our resurrection holiday is the name of an old goddess--Easter. The bunnies (fertility), the eggs (new life) the new outfits are all related to this very ancient idea of a cycle of yearly renewal taken quite naturally from the season

[brodski]

Eggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs

Easter comes from the pre-Christian Anglic goddess Eyarstar (sp?) who was a fertility figure worshipped during the spring season. The word was appropriated into English to refer to the main Christian spring celebration for reasons which are obvious: to convert both people and idea to Christianity. That was kind of the point I was driving at, Christian have no less reason to be offended at easter eggs than non Christan's, except for those that worship Eyarstar of course.
When you combine eggs, hares (the "easter bunny" being a rabbit is a Victorian bowdlerization of the myth) and maypoles, you have a very sexual celebration, I don't know why the fundies don't see it.

[UrsulaV]

I find it very hard to be offended by foods.

Ever eaten lutefisk?

[tkingdoll]

OK, It will have to be after easter though, I've only got the one mold.

I don't want it if it's moldy! :eye-poppi



*I'm making fun of Americans, aren't I mean?

[Pauliesonne]

I don't want it if it's moldy! :eye-poppi



*I'm making fun of Americans, aren't I mean?

Na.....making fun of America is like shooting fish in a barrell.

[ceo_esq]

Eggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs

Easter comes from the pre-Christian Anglic goddess Eyarstar (sp?) who was a fertility figure worshipped during the spring season. The word was appropriated into English to refer to the main Christian spring celebration for reasons which are obvious: to convert both people and idea to Christianity.

This is highly speculative, particularly given that we don't really have any evidence of there having been an Eostre apart from Bede's statement that he thought Eostre was a pagan goddess (whose worshippers, if they ever existed, had died out long before "Easter" ever came to be identified with the Christian feast) after whom the month Eostremonath had been named. In fact, I believe the earliest recorded uses of a variant of the word "Easter" to refer to the Christian feast postdate the Christianization of Britain by quite a bit.

[brodski]

I don't want it if it's moldy! :eye-poppi



*I'm making fun of Americans, aren't I mean?
Um, I'm not american, i just can't spell...

[Ryokan]

Ever eaten lutefisk?

Why do you hate Norway so much? Why do you have to inform the rest of the world that we eat something like that?


Anyway, just to add to the conversation, in Norwegian we call easter 'påske/paaske', which is derived from the Jewish passover/pesach.

Eggs figure prominently in the holiday, but the easter bunny is a recent newcomer, mostly taken from the Americans.

[Moon-Spinner]

Instead of a chocolate bunny, my mother once gave us a fruit egg – I was traumatically offended that year!!!

But seriously folks, I have never met any non-Christian who was offended by bunnies or eggs. It’s usually the televangelists that rail against those symbols.

[Beerina]

If you're offended by someone who's doing something, but otherwise minding their own business, that's your problem.

Since when was it of concern to them? It's bred by a system where direct outlawing of behavior is largely prohibited, so the only way to get laws passed is to feign tremendous psychological damage, get lawyers and newspeople to do teary-eyed stories about you, and hope there's a power hungry thuglitician who'll be happy to grab the ball and run with it under the idea that suddenly the government has the power to outlaw such things because, well, people feel really, really bad about it.

Personally, I prefer that anyone who is offended by something and attempts this should be publically and literally spanked.

[hellaeon]

im pretty sure it meant to say

"You dont show christian symbols about the christian meaning of easter, this offends christians, so we wont let you show anything to do with easter without them"

[tkingdoll]

Um, I'm not american, i just can't spell...

I know you're not, I was just pointing out that the spelling is USAian and that there are two meanings of 'mould'.

Ah, feggeddit. Where's my chocolate? Eh?

[alfaniner]

Instead of a chocolate bunny, my mother once gave us a fruit egg – I was traumatically offended that year!!!
...

Yes, the worst thing is biting into something you think will be pure chocolate, or at least cream-filled, and get orange jelly...

[Moon-Spinner]

Yes, the worst thing is biting into something you think will be pure chocolate, or at least cream-filled, and get orange jelly...

Jelly filled would have been better than the fruit egg I got, which was a solid block mixed with chunks of dried fruit, and it was bitter to the taste. Man, the Easter Bunny must have been on vacation that year!

[ceo_esq]

Jelly filled would have been better than the fruit egg I got, which was a solid block mixed with chunks of dried fruit, and it was bitter to the taste. Man, the Easter Bunny must have been on vacation that year!

He must have been nearby; you obviously found his spoor.

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

I know you're not, I was just pointing out that the spelling is USAian and that there are two meanings of 'mould'.

Ah, feggeddit. Where's my chocolate? Eh?

Is that broccoli killing its natural enemy, the snake, in your avatar?

[meg]

The only easter egg I was ever offended by was a real egg one that was hidden and not found for several weeks. I'd say that one got pretty offensive.

[tkingdoll]

Is that broccoli killing its natural enemy, the snake, in your avatar?

No, they have teamed up in order to find sunglasses. Is that not evident from the picture?

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

No, they have teamed up in order to find sunglasses. Is that not evident from the picture?

Wasn't sure if the broccoli was strangling the snake, or riding bareback. I have now seen the light.

[cyborg]

People who buy Easter eggs for Easter are idiots.

I'm waiting for Tuesday - all the eggs have their prices slashed and I get to eat lots of cheap chocolate!

Hahaha, fools and their conformity to arbitary festival dates!

[tkingdoll]

Wasn't sure if the broccoli was strangling the snake, or riding bareback. I have now seen the light.

Both snakes and broccoli avoid the light, because neither have eyelids. You're not paying attention are you?

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

... because neither have eyelids...


Not touching that subject with a ten foot pole. :boxedin:

[UrsulaV]

Why do you hate Norway so much? Why do you have to inform the rest of the world that we eat something like that?

Norway? I'm talkin' about Minnesota! You're just gettin' fallout from my decade spent shovelling snow and avoiding lutefisk.

[bug_girl]

Actually, I have questioned the easter eggs and decorations all over our office. (I know! Gasp!)
It's a state office, and I think that if we are going to celebrate a holiday, we should celebrate all of them, or none of them. I know that we have at least one person in the office who is a Jehovah's witness, and she's really offended by the decorations.
(I know, really makes it hard not to like the easter stuff, really, if it p!sses of a JW :) )

But add in the Jewish students, and Muslims, and Hindis, and a Pastafarian...Seems like something more about spring, and less closely associated with Christianity would be a better choice.
For something that runs on Tax Dollars.

[ruach1]

Wasn't sure if the broccoli was strangling the snake, or riding bareback. I have now seen the light.
No, no, no. You're all wrong.

Its actually Paul Muad-dib Atreides riding a sandworm over the sands of Dune (looking for Easter eggs).

Its so obvious. Yeesh... :)

[Complexity]

Paul has a green afro? How very very.

[Oolon Colluphid]

Paul has a green afro? How very very.

Now why did I assume that the broccoli was tkd? :boggled:

[Dr Adequate]

Easter is evil (http://www.demonbuster.com/easter.html)

Did you tell your child that the "easter bunny" lays eggs? That is a lie. The Bible says that liars will NOT go to Heaven! Bet you never thought of that one!The Easter Bunny is a false god! (http://www.thunderministries.com/cults/Easter.html)

The rabbit is well known as a sexual symbol of fertility. In various parts of the world, religions which developed from Babel also associate the rabbit with periodicity, both human and lunar (Egypt, China, etc.). As you may remember, the Mother Goddess Semiramis (Easter) is associated with the moon. In other words, the Easter bunny symbolizes the pagan Mother Goddess. Annual Spring-time fertility rituals are associated worship of the pagan Mother Goddess and Tammuz, the reincarnation of her husband Nimrod. All hail Tammuz, Bringer of Chocolate!

Beware the rabbits of ANTICHRIST (http://home.earthlink.net/~spiritoftruthministries/id49.html)

The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits,hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.These are all antichrist activities! Hot cross buns are evil?

Mmm ... full of paganly goodness.

The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now. The "buns," known too by that identical name, were used in the worship of the queen of heaven, the goddess Easter ...

Diogenes Laertius, speaking of this offering being made by Empedocles, describes the chief ingredients of which it was composed, saying, "He offered one of the sacred cakes called Boun, which was made of fine flour and honey." The prophet Jeremiah takes notice of this kind of offering when he says, "The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven." *

* Jeremiah 7:18. It is from the very word here used by the prophet that the word "bun" seems to be derived. The Hebrew word, with the points, was pronounced Khavan, which in Greek became sometimes Kapan-os (PHOTIUS, Lexicon Syttoge); and, at other times, Khabon (NEANDER, in KITTO'S Biblical Cyclopoedia). The first shows how Khvan, pronounced as one syllable, would pass into the Latin panis, "bread," and the second how, in like manner, Khvon would become Bon or Bun. HELLO ... EARTH TO MAD PERSON ... BUNS ARE NOT EVIL. AND ENGLISH IS NOT A SEMITIC LANGUAGE. HELLO ...

Oh, oranges are evil too.

As Rome cherishes the same feelings as Paganism did, so it has adopted also the very same symbols, so far as it has the opportunity. In this country, and most of the countries of Europe, no pomegranates grow; and yet, even here, the superstition of the Rimmon must, as far as possible, be kept up. Instead of the pomegranate, therefore, the orange is employed; and so the Papists of Scotland join oranges with their eggs at Easter... How fortunate for the Scottish idolators that the Highlands have so many orange groves.

Do I wake or sleep?

The Easter Bunny is an abomination! (http://ezinearticles.com/?id=114571)

When John the Baptist recognized Jesus as our Passover sacrifice, he declared: "Behold the Lamb of God" (John 1:29). He didn't say, "Here comes the Easter Bunny!" Again, like the Easter ham, the Easter rabbit is also rejected in the Bible as an abomination (Leviticus 11:6-7).This thread is making me hungry.

[alfaniner]

The best eggs you can usually only get around this time of year are the candy-covered malted milk balls. I particularly like the smaller ones, after keeping them in the freezer. It's hard to find the larger ones that turn your tongue white any more.

[Godmode]

People who buy Easter eggs for Easter are idiots.

I'm waiting for Tuesday - all the eggs have their prices slashed and I get to eat lots of cheap chocolate!

Hahaha, fools and their conformity to arbitary festival dates!

That depends on how you define "Easter eggs". If you mean the choclate ones, I agree. But in my family easter eggs have always been hard-boiled eggs that we dyed and coloured with crayons.

[clarsct]

While the origins of 'Easter/Eyastar/Eostere' are somewhat shrouded by the mists of time, it is safe to say that it is NOT a word that was used in Judea at the time of Christ, or even close thereafter.


The word has Anglo-Saxon origins and was indeed, probably handed down from one old tradition or another, though whether or not it is a Goddess, or merely a feast/celebration is unclear.


However, Eggs and Bunnies as symbols of fertility and rebirth go back much, much farther than Xianity.

Not to mention when you dip the bunnies in eggs and crackermeal, then fry them up, they are very tasty.

[yanit]

Easter comes from the worship of the goddess(es) Ishtar, Astarte, and Eostre, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if I should refer to her/them in the singular or plural because as I understand it it's the same goddess of fertility, only called different names by different cultures through the years.

Absolutely nothing Christian about Easter, yet so few of them know it. :D The silly fools.

[ceo_esq]

Absolutely nothing Christian about Easter, yet so few of them know it. :D The silly fools.

It would be more accurate to acknowledge that the name "Easter" (addressed in my earlier post), or Easter baskets, or Easter bunnies, etc., have nothing to do with the essential Christian features of the holiday.

[ruach1]

Easter comes from the worship of the goddess(es) Ishtar, Astarte, and Eostre, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if I should refer to her/them in the singular or plural because as I understand it it's the same goddess of fertility, only called different names by different cultures through the years.

Absolutely nothing Christian about Easter, yet so few of them know it. :D The silly fools.

:footinmou

If you're going to continue writing in this Forum, you'll have to do better than this. (At least you didn't have any spelling errors.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

Oh yeah,

welcome to JREF Forums! :)

[bluess]

We have an escaped Easter egg. We actually listed the hiding places to avoid this catastrophe, and one seems to have escaped. We have all sworn on the great chocolate gods that we did not move the egg. I believe that 1 week will reveal its super-secret location. I just hope the blue dye (water soluble, non-toxic) doesn't permanently stain whatever it is resting on.

[yanit]

:footinmou

If you're going to continue writing in this Forum, you'll have to do better than this.

I thought we were discussing the origins of the festival, the bunnies and eggs and all? :o

(At least you didn't have any spelling errors.)

Never. :D