# Merry Fucking Easter! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568 "2011-04-24T17:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/21 "2011-04-24T18:42:09Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Or, conversely, enjoy some chocolate eggs. The grocery store is closed today. ☹ On the bright side, tomorrow chocolate eggs (and all the other leftover candy) will be on sale. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/22 "2011-04-24T18:44:31Z")
Hey Lobo! Happy Sunday then. May whatever makes you happy happen lots. The world needs atheists too and needs atheists to contribute good things to humankind. Go forth and be pleasant to someone somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/23 "2011-04-24T18:47:41Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The grocery store is closed today. ☹ > > On the bright side, tomorrow chocolate eggs (and all the other leftover candy) will be on sale. It’s a miracle! ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/24 "2011-04-24T18:53:08Z")
I’m a pretty nice person and usually feel very tolerant and accepting of religious belief, but atheists are allowed to be angry. If someone in the Pit really ruins your holiday because they say they think your faith is wrong and dumb, I don’t have it in me to feel sorry for you. It helps that I thoroughly enjoy the fruits of Christian delusions. Had a great Easter breakfast with the BF’s Catholic family this morning, now off to a delicious dinner! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/25 "2011-04-24T18:54:44Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > . . . > > But please, by all means, keep hanging your “He is Risen” banners on the overpasses of our fair city. . . > [@Lobohan](#): > > . . .because I read on an overpass that Jesus is back. > . . . So, is he risen, or is he back? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/26 "2011-04-24T19:02:55Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Ah, the OP is an asshole. > > Happy Easter folks, may it be emotionally satisfying and spiritually rewarding. Whether or not the OP is an asshole is kind of irrelevant, don’t you think? I wonder how many of those who are so tolerant of the ‘Jesus is Risen!’ kind of signage hanging from public property, would feel the same way if the sign read ‘There is no God, but Allah!’ or some other non-Christian religious slogan. I would suspect that this kind of display is actually illegal? But I guess it’s okay if its in Jesus’ name, Amen. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/27 "2011-04-24T19:05:45Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > So, is he risen, or is he back? Neither, actually. 😃 I assume that _He is Risen_ means to suggest that his return is imminent, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/28 "2011-04-24T19:10:41Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Neither, actually. 😃 > > I assume that _He is Risen_ means to suggest that his return is imminent, doesn’t it? No. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/29 "2011-04-24T19:12:12Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > \I’m not dead yet\. You’re not foolin’ anyone, you know. You’ll be stone dead in a moment. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/30 "2011-04-24T19:19:28Z")
ITT: OP troll or retard, you decide! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/31 "2011-04-24T19:19:46Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > You’re not foolin’ anyone, you know. You’ll be stone dead in a moment. I’m getting better! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/32 "2011-04-24T19:23:18Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > ITT: OP troll or retard, you decide! Technically this isn’t an either-or sort of situation. 😃 I’m not trying to troll, and hopefully I’m not going full-retard. I just got pissed off by a sign because it said something unsupportable as a fact. Can’t the signs say, “We believe, without any evidence, that He is risen.”? Is that so much to ask? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/33 "2011-04-24T19:24:35Z")
> [@LilyoftheField](#): > > Whether or not the OP is an asshole is kind of irrelevant, don’t you think? I wonder how many of those who are so tolerant of the ‘Jesus is Risen!’ kind of signage hanging from public property, would feel the same way if the sign read ‘There is no God, but Allah!’ or some other non-Christian religious slogan. > > I would suspect that this kind of display is actually illegal? But I guess it’s okay if its in Jesus’ name, Amen. Negatory. I couldn’t care less either way. It’s just a stupid banner. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/34 "2011-04-24T19:32:04Z")
> [@LilyoftheField](#): > > Whether or not the OP is an asshole is kind of irrelevant, don’t you think? I think it’s perfectly relevant, and a fruitful area for analysis as long as we’re in the Pit. And I say that as an atheist who’d much rather than even the exemptions for “ceremonial deism” were done away with in the US. If the issue was simply a case of public property used for religious messages, then presumably that would have been the substance of the OP. Instead, it seems to have touched off some kind of asshole-fugue-state, bitching about people “wasting their lives in a pathetic delusion”. It’s the difference between “creches shouldn’t be setup outside City Hall or the local court house.” and “you fucking stupid Christians, don’t you know that there is no God?” It’s perfectly possible to be an atheist without being an asshole about it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/35 "2011-04-24T19:34:41Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Can’t the signs say, “We believe, without any evidence, that He is risen.”? Is that so much to ask?[/SIZE] Good luck. My campaign to put “IN GOD SOME OF US OCCASIONALLY LIKE TO PRETEND WE TRUST” on our coins was shot down for some bullshit “lack of space” reason. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/36 "2011-04-24T19:34:43Z")
While I am a Catholic, I agree that professions of faith, of any kind, do not belong on public property and should not be publicly funded. Not that anyone gives a fuck what I think 😃 Oh and BTW - the OP could have done w/o the snark, but whatever 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/37 "2011-04-24T19:36:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What a dick. > > As an atheist, I don’t want you on my team. My sentiments as well. Just because I don’t share someone’s religious beliefs doesn’t mean I’m going to mock them. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/38 "2011-04-24T19:41:17Z")
In other news, Zeus didn’t really turn into a swan and have sex with Leda, after which she laid an egg out of which hatched Helen of Troy. That was completely made up, and I feel strongly that everyone should know it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/39 "2011-04-24T19:45:30Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > In other news, Zeus didn’t really turn into a swan and have sex with Leda, after which she laid an egg out of which hatched Helen of Troy. That was completely made up, and I feel strongly that everyone should know it. Hey, everybody who’s read a book knows that it was Thor slipping his hammer in the back door while Zeus was off buying lightning bolts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568/40 "2011-04-24T19:59:07Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > In other news, Zeus didn’t really turn into a swan and have sex with Leda, after which she laid an egg out of which hatched Helen of Troy. That was completely made up, and I feel strongly that everyone should know it. But it was published in Penthouse! They fact check these things! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-easter/579568.md?page=3)