Happy Easter!

[Jason Dunn]

If you're in a part of the world that is celebrating Easter today, Happy Easter! Here's a funny little cartoon that gave me a chuckle:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/happyeaster.jpg" /> <br /><br />And for those of us who understand and believe in the real meaning of this holiday, HE IS RISEN! :D

[Pony99CA]

If you're in a part of the world that is celebrating Easter today, Happy Easter! Here's a funny little cartoon that gave me a chuckle[....]
Given the response your leprechaun theme got, let's hope PETA people don't frequent this site. :rofl:

Steve

[DrtyBlvd]

I have no head for bottom jokes :lol:

[Chris Spera]

He is Risen Indeed!!

[Fishie]

Happy Easter people.
As a Muslim i dont believe Isa(Jesus, praise be his name)died on the cross, so subsequently we dont believe he is risen.
That being said, enjoy youre easter and have a choclate egg on me.

[Reinaldo]

To tell you the truth, I never did understand easter and what did that have to do with rabits. :oops: I understand easter, the religious holiday and I celebrate it. Now, what does that have to do with eggs? I guess I must be either very ignorant or very stupid. :lol:

[Xyress]

Well, without checking it out on the Internet to be completely accurate, I think the reason we have the eggs & the bunny rabbit and all that for Easter is because when the Christians supplanted the Pagans, they just plopped all of their holidays over top of existing Pagan holidays so that all of the peasants would kind of be celebrating the new Christian holidays at the same time (easier to remember the dates and all of that).

I think the date has less to do with when Jesus may or may not have been killed & risen, and more to do with the Spring Equinox.

[Pony99CA]

I think the date has less to do with when Jesus may or may not have been killed & risen, and more to do with the Spring Equinox.
I suppose if their calendars were really, really bad. Was the Julian calendar in use back then? On the Gregorian calendar, the vernal equinox is always in mid-March. Easter is based off of a lunar calendar, I believe, and often falls far from the equinox.

Steve

[Kirkaiya]

Well, without checking it out on the Internet to be completely accurate, I think the reason we have the eggs & the bunny rabbit and all that for Easter is because when the Christians supplanted the Pagans, they just plopped all of their holidays over top of existing Pagan holidays so that all of the peasants would kind of be celebrating the new Christian holidays at the same time (easier to remember the dates and all of that).

I think the date has less to do with when Jesus may or may not have been killed & risen, and more to do with the Spring Equinox.

That is the best explanation i've heard of this :-) I did kinda know that Christmas was picked to be 3 days after the winter solstice, and also that as Christianity spread they just sorta hijacked the pagan holidays (although the way I heard it was that it was so pagans wouldn't have to give up their traditions, but same idea)

So now I'm wondering which original pagan belief involved rabbits hiding eggs... "things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMM"

anyway - as a non-religious-person myself, I'd still like to bid all the Christians in the world a HAPPY EASTER, and to everyone, "Peace on Earth, goodwill to men (and women!)"

I hope the world takes this day as an opportunity to "pause" the violence that plagues the Earth.

[Macguy59]

He is risen indeed !

[Jason Dunn]

Thread locked and a few comments deleted. I can tolerate a lot of things, but people deciding that Easter Sunday is a good day to mock the beliefs of others is not one of them. There's a time and a place for everything, and I'm sad to see that tolerance and respect can't exist here for one day... :cry: