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WTF??? :eek:
You ‘murricans can keep your religious loonies to yourselves. No need to export them. Just sayin’.
So your atheism doesn’t believe in the Easter Bunny?
The Easter Bunny is seen as a minor demigod, in that (s)he doesn’t bring gifts to the extent Santa does.
That’s only true if every religion believes that all non-believers-in-our-precise-strain will go to hell. Plenty of religions don’t believe that (Judaism doesn’t, most Christians don’t, Buddhism doesn’t afaik, Hinduism doesn’t afaik).
The EB may have started out as a minor demigod when (s)he was hiding only colored hard-boiled eggs but since adding Easter-themed candy (e.g., Peeps, Cadbury eggs, chocolate bunnies, jelly beans, etc.) to his/her repertoire, (s)he’s definitely upped his/her game. Don’t get me wrong, Jolly Old St. Nick is still #1 by a wide margin and the go-to guy for the holiday-related distribution of material objects like toys, video games, and valuables, but the Easter Bunny is a solid #2. In fact, when it comes to holiday-related distribution of confections and consumables, I would rank him/her higher than Santa.
Santa and EB bless you always!!:):)
^^^^ I shouldn’t laugh at that, but I am.
The EB brought me The Legend of Zelda with the cool gold cartridge when I was a kid. He’s allright in my book.
Now that fuckin Tooth Fairy - we’s got issues.
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPSSSSSSSS!!!
Also, I ate a bunny for Easter this year. It seemed appropriate.
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Well sure, but a random assortment of ghouls and goblins is better than Santa at that too (more efficient, too, since the kids do most of the distribution work). Candy is a little outside of Nick’s wheelhouse, but nobody beats him for sheer stuff.
So what’s your stand on St. Patrick, the patron saint of green beer? And what of St. Valentine, the patron saint of nookie?
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Don’t blaspheme the good name of St. Patrick by associating him with the weak mass-produced lager (a.k.a., pisswater) with emerald-colored food dye that’s called “green beer”. If you have to link St. Pat with a beer, make it Guinness stout (not the Americanized lager) or some other Irish brew. You could try to dye it green but seeing as it’s dark, you’d just be wasting green food coloring.
And FTR, the patron saint of beer is not St. Patrick but St. Arnold (a.k.a., Arnulf) of Metz.
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I can’t believe he didn’t come up with something specific to say about Sean O’Malley.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20.
“Be thou not a jerk”
Gospel According to Cecil, 1:1
I don’t understand the meme that Christians aren’t supposed to accept the easter bunny or santa claus as inoffensive social constructs.
I was raised as a conservative Christian, but I was never taught that the easter bunny or santa claus had anything to do with my religion.
I’m very curious as to why many posters think that Christians (or anyone else, for that matter) aren’t allowed to allow innocent non-religious social habits into child rearing?
Possibly Chick Tracts, which are popular here. One-- hardly a classic tract like the D&D one, though-- makes the argument that lying to your kids about the Tooth Fairy, Santa, and the Easter Bunny will make them a murderer.
The big non-religious social habit that mainstream Christian kids might get left out of is probably Halloween, though. Even moderate Protestant sects like to screw that one up by replacing it with a lame Harvest Festivals or traditional haunted houses with morality plays.
If you look you can find some amusing (and apparently well-researched) essays like Easter Bunny brings Satan’s Communion.
My sense is that, for some really extreme fundamentalist Christians, if you allow any aspect of your life to not be saturated with your religion, you’re doing Christianity wrong.