The War on the Easter Bunny
Tuesday April 10, 2007
Ah, here we go again. It seems the "War on Christmas" schtick was so profitable, it had to become a year-round operation. I get the idea that this time it's not going to be quite as successful. Take the silly Rhode Island politician, who was so offended when a school, wanting to keep the bunny but lose the religious entanglement, dropped the name "Easter bunny" in favor of the more secular "Peter Rabbit." And so, to preserve this ancient American cultural tradition,* he introduced legislation to prevent any more school officials from rechristening (no pun intended) the bunny. State Representative Richard Singleton is just tired of the rabble taking precious icons like the Christmas tree and the Easter bunny and renaming them willy-nilly, and he's not going to take it any more. Besides, everyone knows that if you fight hard enough, and pass enough laws, the culture will stay just the way you like it and nothing will ever change.
Rep. Singleton's not the only one, either (and he may be the sanest)- one even refers to the school's decision as a "Slap at Christianity." On the bright side, FOX's John Gibson now has something from this year he can add to his conspiracy theories.
*Richard's going to have a hard time defending this one. While some Christians actively oppose the whole notion of an Easter bunny, the rest shrug their shoulders and use this borrowed 'symbol of spring' as an allegory of resurrection and a way to teach candy-greedy kids about Jesus.
Comments
Lol yeah because the easter bunny is a critical aspect of christian tradition.
LOL next they will be haning the rabbit up on the cross. Shame on us heathens for stealing their christian rabbit! It’s a good thing it’s not the other way around. (rolls eyes) Maybe we should pass laws.
Oh, dear. Well, (not that most people don’t know this already…) since the word Easter comes from the name of the fertility goddess Eostar (one of a variety of spellings), and symbolically means the spring rebirth of everything under the sun, and also the word is derived from the word that means “East” because that’s the symbolic direction of rebirth/spring, perhaps it would be more sensible to change the name of the holiday from Easter to something more appropriate to the Christian beliefs.
Why not call it Resurrection Sunday or something similar to end the contention?
I’m really not being sarcastic, but if people are going to be divisive, they shouldn’t use other people’s symbols to do it. That usually comes back and bites a person on the you-know-what.
Peace…
OOPS….I should have read the last link in the article (”borrowed”) as I see that just about everything I just wrote is there.
Sorry, not trying to steal from the article, but parts of it are such common knowledge, or sensible conclusions (i.e. Resurrection Sunday), it’s hard not to repeat the info.
Peace…
easter isnt the only holiday that christians have borrowed from us
Silly or not, Christianity is not an “Alternative Religion”, the reason I come to this site.
Stick to what you’re good at or rename the site.
Xianity represents the majority religion in the US, and as such must be swatted away when it makes itself overbearingly annoying. Considering the fact that xianity has stolen or preempted every facet of its belief system from older pagan religions, I would conclusively state that highlighting the foibles of the xian church keeps in time with the purpose of the Alternative Religions site.
Jonathan, your opinion has been noted (several times, in fact.) That said, I don’t appreciate being told what to write about.
As Scolaí points out, when the majority faith encroaches on other faiths or the rights of non-Christians, it is worthy of mention. Those of us who do belong to so-called alternative faiths do feel a need to to discuss it. There are more than ten-thousand pages on this site, so I’m surer that on those occasions we discuss Christianity, there is something somewhere here you might find interesting- and barring that, you might consider the forums, where we post dozens of stories and topics.
Not to flog a dead dogma, but all religions are alternative. Don’t change a thing Jennifer Rose. Entertaining and educational.