A politically correct Easter?

[James Joseph Emerald]

Later today I'm going to partake in an Easter Egg hunt.
PC be damned.

Goddamn dude. How old are you, five?
(I meant that rhetorically. I checked your profile, Mr. 1991...)

Unless someone is getting raped, murdered or viciously beaten, stay out of other people's religions.

I think you're forgetting something very important. A lot of people view Easter as a Christian holiday. Remember, Christian holidays are bad, mmkay? Everytime a Christian holiday comes up, we have to change it and make it less "offensive" to other people who want to celebrate the festivities without being sacrilegious.

I agree. As a non-Christian, I am greatly offended by Christians trying to take all the best holidays and slip religious meaning into the middle of it all. What if I have kids, and they're forcefully exposed -- through Easter -- to all the obscenities and irrationality of the Christian faith?

That's why, in my opinion, Easter Holidays should be renamed 'HYPERSONIC FUCKSTORM OF DOOM', Easter Eggs should be called 'ULTRABUNNY SHIT GRENADES', and Easter Egg Hunts should be 'HYPERSONIC SHIT GRENADE CLUSTER-FUCKSTORMS'. It just seems like the most logical solution.

 

[martin's a madman]

This makes sense, considering that Saint Peter was actually a rabbit, making the easter bunny side of the holiday incredibly religious.
Similar to how Christmas Break became Holiday Break and the such.

SAINT PETER WAS A HARE YOU BLASPHEMER!

Tee hee.

 

[hyzaku]

I find it funny that my first thought upon reading this was "But eggs are ovals, not spheres." After which the reality of the pure stupid sunk in and I laughed...then cried a bit on the inside.

Seriously though, why spheres? Why not Spring Eggs? Why not just change the part you are scared of instead of trying to be creatively stupid and prove you state doesn't even teach proper geometry? Hell, the word oval comes from the Latin word ovum which means EGG! Eggs are not spheres.

Oddly, I'm still more irritated at the "spheres" part than the whole incident. Possibly because the idiocy of PC has long since stopped being surprising in any way.

Oh for fuck's sake, the story isn't true!

It's made up bullshit, it's not real!

How many times does it have to be said?

About 3 more times before I'll start caring.
/sarcasm

Seriously, calm down dude. So I don't see a certain couple of posts calling it a fake story and suddenly my post is rage worthy? A polite "Story is fake dude." would have been much nicer than cussing at me.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Fine, I''l just go hunt some Eostre Eggs

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No that is stupid. I am not just saying this because I am Christian. Easter is another Holiday adopted by Christianity to help make it easier for pagans to convert to Christianity. The egg has little to with Christ bar his resurrection as the egg is a symbol of rebirth. Same as Christmas and Hallowe'en and Garland Sunday/Graveyard Sunday.

 

[Mukil]

I am from the easter islands and I always find this holiday extremely insensitive.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Well, first off eggs are not spheres.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, this is ridiculous. A giant rabbit has so little to do with Christianity that there's really no reason not to talk about it. Easter was never about the rebirth of Christ in my house, it was about waking up on the weekend and finding delicious chocolate everywhere in my house. An easy way to make the holiday more politically correct(an incredibly stupid phrase) is to simply not mention the rebirth of Christ. Just treat it like another commercial holiday, Christmas is still called Christmas only now we talk about Santa Claus a lot more than any religious symbols.

 

[dementis]

Like all religous holidays I just use it as an excuse to get drunk...And maybe free stuff (YAY! Christmas!)

 

[MrHero17]

Who cares what they call it, the eggs and candy have fuck all to do with anything besides having fun.

 

[Danhoyt]

I'm Agnostic, just disclosing that right away.

Since the Christians kind of stole the Spring Holiday about rebirth and fertility (rabbits and chicks) from the non-Christians. It's only fair now that we as a country are becoming less imposing on our religions beliefs to try and take the holiday back to a more secular format. That's fine with me. We could call it Easter or whatever anybody wants to call it. It really just matters to you as an individual. If I wished you Happy Holidays you can take that as whatever religious (Christmas) or non-religious (New Years) holiday you want.

Call them Spring Eggs or Spring Spheres or Easter Eggs and some of us will go to church and some of us will just eat lots of candy. We can do Easter in a more secularized way and it ultimately doesn't detract from anybody's religious or non-religious views.

 

[Hollock]

how dare they take away from our chocolate bunnies and eggs, don't they care about Jesus?

 

[THE_NAMSU]

He, this reminds me of an article which I read said the PC of men and women should be as so:
Men - people with penis
Women - people lacking penis.

 

[SilentCom]

Easter Egg is much easier to say and sounds way better than spring spheres. I mean seriously? They couldn't at least have thought up a better name?

Also, whenver there's a secret object or whatever in a game, it's referred to as an Easter Egg. Games be damned if people started calling them Spring Spheres.

Edit: Eggs aren't spherical either.

 

[VanityGirl]

What the OP is missing is that this is not true in any way. It's a false news story picked up all over the country because alarmist media sells. It's absolutely been proven false.

Actually I figured it out pretty much after I posted it, but for the sake of discussion, we shall continue to asssume that this is true.
It is making for a very interesting thread, wouldn't you agree?

 

[Hiphophippo]

What the OP is missing is that this is not true in any way. It's a false news story picked up all over the country because alarmist media sells. It's absolutely been proven false.

Actually I figured it out pretty much after I posted it, but for the sake of discussion, we shall continue to asssume that this is true.
It is making for a very interesting thread, wouldn't you agree?

In that it's 4 pages of people being mad at something that doesn't exist, perhaps a little. At he same time, it might be more interesting if you editted the OP and just made it about political correctness.

 

[feycreature]

He, this reminds me of an article which I read said the PC of men and women should be as so:
Men - people with penis
Women - people lacking penis.

Actually if you think about it that's pretty gender-biased and inaccurate to boot. It predicates the entirety of a person's sex on whether they have a MALE sex organ. It basically defines women as "not men". And then to add to it that doesn't include pre-op transgendered men OR men who've lost their penis due to some horrible weasel-related accident. So if anything that's much less PC than the original.

Just thinking out loud here.

 

[THE_NAMSU]

He, this reminds me of an article which I read said the PC of men and women should be as so:
Men - people with penis
Women - people lacking penis.

Actually if you think about it that's pretty gender-biased and inaccurate to boot. It predicates the entirety of a person's sex on whether they have a MALE sex organ. It basically defines women as "not men". And then to add to it that doesn't include pre-op transgendered men OR men who've lost their penis due to some horrible weasel-related accident. So if anything that's much less PC than the original.

Just thinking out loud here.

Sorry I didn't make it clear, that article was mocking the whole PC thing x).
+ the term "mammals" is used because the FEMALES have mammary glands. The males do not have mammary glands.
So that's gender biased itself but no one realises that...

 

[feycreature]

He, this reminds me of an article which I read said the PC of men and women should be as so:
Men - people with penis
Women - people lacking penis.

Actually if you think about it that's pretty gender-biased and inaccurate to boot. It predicates the entirety of a person's sex on whether they have a MALE sex organ. It basically defines women as "not men". And then to add to it that doesn't include pre-op transgendered men OR men who've lost their penis due to some horrible weasel-related accident. So if anything that's much less PC than the original.

Just thinking out loud here.

Sorry I didn't make it clear, that article was mocking the whole PC thing x).
+ the term "mammals" is used because the FEMALES have mammary glands. The males do not have mammary glands.
So that's gender biased itself but no one realises that...

Nono, I guessed that was making fun of the whole PC thing, but it's making fun of political correctness by saying it's using politically incorrect terms. I mean it works, it's just kind of inelegant.

 

[Jegsimmons]

let me rage real quick:
ITS FUCKING CALLED EASTER AND ITS FUCKING CALLED CHRISTMAS!!!!
GET THE HELL OVER IT!!!!
/rage.

whew...ok now in a more sensible way:
i find political correctness not only offensive in itself but also trying to interfere with my constitutional rights of both speech and religion.
yet now one censors Charles Darwin day! (even though it doesn't honestly matter but i digress.)

also..spring spheres? that's offensive from just being pure stupid.

 

[Gilhelmi]

snip

Oh, and the story is probably fake: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-spring-spheres-instead-of-easter-eggs-not-so-fast/

I hope you are right. That does seem slightly odd that, apparently, we do not even know the name of the school or the person in the phone call. More research should be done to see if there is any validity to the story.

So I hope you are right and this all was for nothing. Because I would rather not see this subject escalate farther then it already has.