A politically correct Easter?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.Hiphophippo said:
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.VanityGirl said:
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.THE_NAMSU said:
Just thinking out loud here.
Sorry I didn't make it clear, that article was mocking the whole PC thing x).feycreature said:
+ 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.THE_NAMSU said:
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.
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.
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.Woodsey said:
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.
I think you're right. I posted Stewart Lee's video on political correctness a while ago, and I think it's worth posting here but I can't be arsed so: go google it people.Elcarsh said:
Into 4 pages now and people are still posting their outrage despite it being pointed out multiple times that this story is a lie. Guess there's a lot of Daily Mail readers on the Internet.
Meh, even if Easter Eggs were renamed Spring Spheres, it wouldn't work anyway, since companies has essentially monopolized on Easter Eggs...on the Easter Season obviously...doubt alot of people would believe they're spheres if they looked like eggs.
People should have rights to celebrate whatever they choose, they shouldn't turn holidays into non-discriminatory holidays since the original meanings would've been lost, its not like religions compels their followers to destroy and kill people of other religions, differences makes experiences more enjoyable and varied.
If places like schools were worried about holidays being too specific to a certain culture or religion, why not just celebrate more?
People should have rights to celebrate whatever they choose, they shouldn't turn holidays into non-discriminatory holidays since the original meanings would've been lost, its not like religions compels their followers to destroy and kill people of other religions, differences makes experiences more enjoyable and varied.
If places like schools were worried about holidays being too specific to a certain culture or religion, why not just celebrate more?