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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:55:37 -0700 (PDT), last_post@rogers.com wrote:

>The Grave Threat of the Easter Bunny
>By Tom Purcell
>FrontPageMagazine.com
>Friday, March 21, 2008
>
>Another tradition is making some people uneasy:
>the Easter Bunny.
>
>Some folks, worried that the Easter Bunny correlates
>too closely with Christian traditions and is therefore
>offensive to non-Christians, are abandoning the little
>fellow.

Actually there is no mention of Easter in the Bible and Yu'shua and
the Disciples didn't celebrate it and neither did Job, Moshe, Isaiah,
Obidah etc. They celebrated Purim instead. If you research the orgins
of Easter you will find the rabbits were part of a pagan fertility
celebration called Eostre. Remain ignorant if you want.
>
>According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the town of
>Walnut Creek renamed its Easter Bunny the "Spring
>Bunny." The Spring Bunny participates in the town's
>storied annual tradition, the Spring Egg Hunt.

Nothing wrong with a Spring Celebration. Good for them.
>
>Some malls across America are changing the Easter
>Bunny's name, too. According to WorldNetDaily.com,
>some store managers are calling their bunny "Baxter
>the Bunny," "Garden Bunny" or "Peter Rabbit."
>
>Peter Rabbit was the name of choice for a Rhode
>Island school superintendent who, according to
>ABCnews.com, decided the Easter Bunny ought not
>visit his school district.

I always liked Brer and Peter Rabbit. Peter Cottontail as well.
>
>His decision made the ACLU happy. After all, as one
>ACLU fellow said, schools shouldn't be in the business
>of promoting Easter celebrations.

Yeah!!
>
>Which leads to some interesting questions: What is
>the Easter celebration, anyhow? What is the origin of
>the Easter Bunny?
>
>Lawrence Cunningham, a University of Notre Dame
>theology professor, said in the San Francisco Chronicle
>that the Easter Bunny has little to do with religion.
>
>"The bunny is a fertility symbol with no religious
>connection to Easter," he said. "The egg, which was
>popularized in Greece, Russia, and Eastern Europe in
>connection with Easter, does not have a religious
>connection to Easter. By taking away the term 'Easter,'
>these symbols to some extent return to their
>pre-Christian roots as symbols of spring fertility."

Look up Eostre.
>
>In other words, somewhere along the line, the furry
>fellow got twisted up with the resurrection of Jesus.
>Somewhere along the line, he started wearing a vest
>and handing out eggs and candy. It took a bit of time --
>hundreds of years or more -- for the Easter tradition I
>knew as a kid to evolve.

Let's end it. Celebrate Purim instead.
>
>Forty days before Easter Sunday, on Ash Wednesday,
>we'd attend Mass. Lent was on, which meant we had to
>make a sacrifice of some kind. That meant one thing in
>our home: no Snyder's of Berlin potato chips until after
>Easter.
>
>We'd take in the Stations of the Cross on Friday nights.
>We'd go to Confession before Easter Sunday ("Forgive
>me, Father, but I stopped at the convenience store three
>times for Snyder's of Berlin potato chips ..."). The night
>before Easter, my whole family would sit around the
>kitchen table dying hard-boiled eggs. Why hard-boiled
>eggs? Why dye them? We didn't ask. It was tradition.
>
>Finally, Easter Sunday arrived. I was usually the first to
>rise. I'd rouse my sisters, so we could rush downstairs
>and search for our baskets. The Easter Bunny was big
>on hiding things. Eggs are still turning up on the White
>House's South Lawn from Easter Egg Rolls that date
>back to the Truman administration.
>
>I'd spend the next hour devouring hollow chocolate
>bunnies. Then we'd eat a big breakfast, go to Mass and
>stand in the aisles because the stragglers who never
>went to Mass were always sitting in our regular seat. I'd
>spend the rest of the day trying to find where my sisters
>hid their hollow chocolate bunnies.
>
>Who knows how or why the Easter tradition evolved this
>way. It's the blending of the customs of so many different
>people who made their way to America. Over time, the
>different customs melted together to form the American
>Easter tradition.
>
>In fact, our current customs will continue to evolve to
>reflect the different influences that continue to blend
>within our energetic country. That's what customs and
>traditions do.
>
>But wouldn't it be best that they evolve naturally and
>slowly and honestly, as they always have, rather than
>at the behest of a lawyer who threatens to sue
>because somebody may be offended by an Easter
>Bunny handing out candy on public property?
>
>It's a sign of a great civilization that we worry so about
>offending anyone for any reason, but isn't it a sign of a
>weakening civilization when people are afraid to call
>things what they really are?
>
>The bunny who hands out candy and eggs is the
>Easter Bunny, not the Spring Bunny. He's harmless,
>too, so long as you don't mind him hiding toxic, fatty
>chocolate things all over your house.

And as long as you don't mind ridiculing the religious faith of
Esther, Mordecai, Ruth, Luke, James, John, the LORD etc. But since
when do Catholics care about JHVH?
>
>Tom Purcell's weekly political humor column runs in
>newspapers and Web sites across America.
>Visit him at www.TomPurcell.com.

Nothing humourous about the desecration of the faith of the LORD.

We are awaiting the return of our JHVH in the flesh or his Son. His Son Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected and walked the earth for awhile then ascended unto Heaven. We await the Third Coming not the Second.

Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay-"The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude. ...

Who will be the last Coalition soldier to be maimed in Iraq?

Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into Darfur.http://www.amnesty.ca/instantkarma/petition.php



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