Originally Posted By DlandDug When I see a turban, it usually means one of two things: A sikh is in the vicinity; or Someone has wet hair.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>A mall is allowed to have any type of theme they want to have. Just because they want to make their theme-ing more generic and not 'The Easter Bunny' [who doesn't really represent Easter, but...] who cares?<< Well, I certainly don't. Are we voting on this?
Originally Posted By cmpaley LOL! Well said. Muslims usually wear those doily looking things on their heads.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Muslims usually wear those doily looking things on their heads.<< As opposed to the Pope, who wears a yamulke.
Originally Posted By cmpaley Actually, it's called a zuchetto and all bishops wear them. The bishops wear red ones and the pope wears a white one. It's got a little sticky uppy thing that he uses to remove it at appropriate points in the Mass.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Calling it the Easter Bunny and having Easter eggs trivializes the Christian celebration of Easter. I'd rather they called it the Spring bunny.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 What's amazing is that the malls for instance don't want anything to be associated with a Christian holiday name-- but they still want all those dollars for EASTER and CHRISTMAS.... I normally don't get involved in all of this as on the surface it seems superficial. But it is far from superficial..I am very far from the Christian right who takes such a beating in most discussions, many times rightfully so..as they make me nuts too But yes, it is only a change to 'tradition' - but who started that tradition ? The people who founded this country. And yes this is the country that welcomes you with open arms, and one is free to worship as they see fit - as long as they are not Christians who put up all those horrid items: Christmas trees / Easter Bunnies and the like. Someone may go to a mall and be scarred for life at the sign of the Easter bunny.. It's easy people, shop at the mall with the Easter bunny and skip the one with the spring rabbit.....ditto at Christmas...skip the holiday tree and go where they have a Christmas tree...and those who are offended by such icons can shop where they have neutered the holidays...no problem at all really.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Stores shouldn't be using religious images and themes to sell ties and salad spinners. Should we really be celebrating the resurrection with a creme egg and a giant pastel colored rabbit?
Originally Posted By Perdie This is ridiculous. I am jewish, i am not offended by a christmas tree or an easter bunny. They just aren't part of my life, but i am not offended if i see one or if the mall calls it that! I don't buy Christmas trees (so why call it a holiday tree if the only people buying it are celebrating christamas?) And I don't take pictures with the EASTER bunny....because Passover there is no creme egg or bunny, only matzoh. ick. I can see how christians may be offended that a bunny is associated with the resurection of christ, but that's a strange tradition that probably started to get kids excited about easter...wish we had something like that for Yom Kippur-talk about a dull morose holiday!!!
Originally Posted By mele It's just as easy to NOT be offended by the name changes than it is to not be offended by the words "Christmas" or "Easter". I love holidays and am not offended by Xmas trees OR holiday trees. But if you really want to get into things, it is inappropriate to have pagen symbols associated with Christian holidays.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Yes it is wrong to have pagan symbols for christain holidays. But it wasn't any church that created those symbols. And as vbdad55 pointed out these merchants are more than happy to cash in on judeo-christian holiday spending.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA So now it's no longer an al-quaeda infiltration thing, it's about malls cashing in on judeo-christian holiday spending. Then, you should be happy that the Easter Bunny is gone from the mall, right? At any rate, it's all one big liberal conspiracy, ain't it?
Originally Posted By wahooskipper The boo birds out there can try to change things all they want, but, I've know the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus for 35 years and I will know them for 85 more...and so will my children and grandchildren. I'm told to accept gays getting married, accept minorities getting preferential hiring and on and on. This is where I put my foot down though. Don't mess with Claus or the Bunny.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Lol, I see what ya mean...to me that's like tryin' to change the names of the Greek gods or the days of the week. You're just so used to havin' things be certain names.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Ya know, since the Bunny has nothin' to do with Easter anyway, why didn't they just call it the "Spring Bunny" in the first place? Then everything would be hunky-dory.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Well, as long as The Whatever Bunny still gets me my Cadbury Creme Eggs and Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs...
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Nope, I'm not joking. Well, I exaggerated a bit for effect but I'm not joking. I'm reading my three year old stories of the Easter Bunny and Peter Cottontail and I don't hold back for Christmas. As I've grown older I've changed my viewpoint on a lot of different things but there is no harm in the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus in a child's upbringing and I'll be darned if the PC crowd is going to make me think otherwise. While the town might be throwing a "Royal Egg Hunt" as far as my three year old is concerned he is going to have a chance to meet the Easter Bunny. I doubt very much that the encounter will scar him for life or make him intolerant towards others.
Originally Posted By mele Ostara, Goddess of Spring and the Dawn (Oestre / Eastre) Easter is named for a Saxon goddess who was known by the names of Oestre or Eastre, and in Germany by the name of Ostara. She is a goddess of the dawn and the spring, and her name derives from words for dawn, the shining light arising from the east. Our words for the "female hormone" estrogen derives from her name. Ostara was, of course, a fertility goddess. Bringing in the end of winter, with the days brighter and growing longer after the vernal equinox, Ostara had a passion for new life. Her presence was felt in the flowering of plants and the birth of babies, both animal and human. The rabbit (well known for its propensity for rapid reproduction) was her sacred animal. Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny both featured in the spring festivals of Ostara, which were initially held during the feasts of the goddess Ishtar/Inanna. Eggs are an obvious symbol of fertility, and the newborn chicks an adorable representation of new growth. Brightly colored eggs, chicks, and bunnies were all used at festival time to express appreciation for Ostara's gift of abundance.-- Woohoo, let's hear it for the Goddess!
