Now someone explain to me what the hell a rabbit shitting out colored chicken eggs has to do with Christ?

 

All those crosses scare me.

Easy, to manipulate young minds to look forward to religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter. On these days children get more presents then they deserve, and a shit-load of chocolate. Thus children look forward to these holidays. Thus slowly as they get older it turns them into religious fanatics. This is the reason we have Santa Claus doing thousands of B and E's in one night and a bunny shitting out eggs.

 

That is a disturbing amount of crosses in one area. Why the fuck are there so many crosses in one place?

Oh, and Happy Easter, DLP.

 

It might just be because its almost 5am, but thats the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I lol'ed. More than is probably healthy.


Aaaaand, for the topic: Cyanide and Happiness
http://www.explosm.net/comics/858/
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Lol. Why is the crucifix a symbol of christ? Christians worship the very thing that killed him. If he was shot with an arrow or something would they worship an arrow?

Never mind, stupid thought.

 

Jim Gaffigan explains Easter. This man knows what he is talking about. Skip to 1:14 to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJCIbC9sxA

 

...we could crucify those stupid midgets from that Little People show on those.

Happy Easter, DLP. Om, nom, nom.

 

Painted eggs used to be given on the Spring equinox. I believe it was the Persians that started it. Now they're given at Easter due to the rather clever decision by the early Church to eat the "Pagan" festivals.

Somewhere along the way a rather insightful entrepreneur apparently decided chocolate eggs would be a better idea.

Edit: That's a lot of crosses.

 

The role of the Easter Bunny is explained well in season 11 of South Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Easter_Special - The plot is here.
Basically Jesus intended a Rabbit to be Pope.

 

Crazy Christians and their crazy holidays. A fat old guy that brings presents to little children from one side, a rabbit that give out tasty eggs (preferably black) on the other. And cross looks like a weird dick. *run and hide from the church*

 

It's really not a Christian holiday. The Spring Equinox was celebrated long before Christians commandeered it.

 

Yeah it's ridiculous. As I recall, the name "Easter" was contrived from the Chaldean word "Ishtar" which was also the name of "Astarte"- goddess of heaven. The rabbits and eggs came from worship of the god of fertility.. I think it was "Semiramis"?

Christmas, Pagan holiday to ensure the return of the sun? Pine Trees were some kind of pagan symbol... Not quite sure about christmas, I'll have to read up on it a bit more.

 

Wasn't Easter the yearly opposite of the Harvest Festivals? Like the welcoming of the new farming year and the time when everything is reborn after winter. The specifics have been noted already, and I'm pretty sure you guys got all of them.

Aekiel

 

its a catholic, not a Christian holliday. I think that catholics belieave that Christ died today, or something like that.
meh. All I know is that chocolate is reeeaaallyy cheap this time of year. sweeet!

 

Of course it's a Christian holiday, the major differences between Protestant and Catholic are their respective beliefs on the sacraments. The whole point of Christianity is the worship of Jesus as the Son of God, otherwise it'd just be Judaism, and Easter is the celebration of his death and rebirth.

Easter is a wholly Christian holiday, but I digress, it's not so much any more; too much commercialisation.

Aekiel

 

While on the topic, sort of, of early Christianity stealing pagan festivals for their own uses don't forget that the basis for Catholic Mass (and I suppose other Christian Masses, though I have no personal experience with them) were originally taken from the ceremonies worshipping Mithras the bull-god.

But when asking in modern times "why does a bunny lay eggs?" the answer is "because people make money". Easter is technically the biggest event in the Christian liturgical year, representing the time when Jesus rose from the grave and went to Heaven, but most people think Christmas is more important because you get more days off, more presents, and there's more stupid holiday shit on tv.

Why does a bunny lay eggs? The same reason deer fly. Because everyone else is too busy stuffing their faces to care about anything but what they get out of it. If a kid says "but bunnies don't lay eggs" its parents won't talk about the pagan influences on various Christian holidays, they'll throw chocolate at them and tell them to go away.

I don't have chocolate to give you, and I doubt you'd listen if I told you to go away, but I'm sure there's something both of us can be thinking about that's both more interesting and more productive than the inconsistencies of holiday symbolism.