Is Easter creepy?

[Babs]

I'll admit it: I don't like Easter. It's violent and melodramatic. I think it comes from my childhood, where Easter was couched in hyperreligious guilt-laden rhetoric.

Today I walk into my mom's living room and she's giving my son an Easter lesson involving an egg filled with nails, thorns, and a spear. This is so not okay with me. Does Easter creep anybody else out?

[Mormon Red Death]

I'll admit it: I don't like Easter. It's violent and melodramatic. I think it comes from my childhood, where Easter was couched in hyperreligious guilt-laden rhetoric.

Today I walk into my mom's living room and she's giving my son an Easter lesson involving an egg filled with nails, thorns, and a spear. This is so not okay with me. Does Easter creep anybody else out?

its because you baptists focus so much on the pain whereas us mormon focus on the ressurection. To me Easter is better than Christmas.

1. Better Weather
2. easter egg hunts for the little ones
3. no need to get a gifts for everyone just a little something for the easter baskets
4. seeing your little girls in pastel colored dresses is cute.
5. We celebrate the greatest thing to ever happen.

[Mormon Red Death]

I guess what i am trying to say is that the whole nails, spear thing your Mom was trying to teach with the egg would never happen in a mormon household

[TripletDaddy]

I'll admit it: I don't like Easter. It's violent and melodramatic. I think it comes from my childhood, where Easter was couched in hyperreligious guilt-laden rhetoric.

Today I walk into my mom's living room and she's giving my son an Easter lesson involving an egg filled with nails, thorns, and a spear. This is so not okay with me. Does Easter creep anybody else out?

no wonder you don't like Easter!

what ever happened to eggs filled with candy?

I enjoy Easter, but truthfully because it is associated with candy and vacation. Its celebration has become a bizarre hodgepodge holiday of Harvest and Christendom...almost like we went too far as a collective faith to create a mega holiday and couldn't undo the resultant mess. As a result, Christianity celebrates Easter by incorporating a rabbit...that hands out eggs...which we hide and then try to find...all in an effort to celebrate the Resurrection.

Makes little sense, but I simply roll with it. Pass the hard boiled eggs while I ponder the Atonement.

[Babs]

no wonder you don't like Easter!

what ever happened to eggs filled with candy?

yeah, no idea. I brought the lesson to an abrupt halt and in so doing either offended my mom or hurt her feelings (probably both). But seriously? nails?! yuck.

I agree that Easter has turned into a really odd holiday. I also find it interesting that in the US we've managed to devote most of our major holidays to the celebration of the miracle that is the confectionery industry.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

My middle child would love an egg filled with weapons. However I agree it seems creepy.

[RobinFinderson]

I got a little creeped out by easter yesterday when Faith and I were at the Manhattan Beach shopping mall, getting her Mac fixed at the Apple store. There were these two cute little girls all dressed up in their easter dresses and they were getting photographed with a shopping mall easter bunny, and all I could think to myself was, "If I had a daughter, I would never dress her up and photograph her on some stranger in a mask's lap." Icky!

[Babs]

"If I had a daughter, I would never dress her up and photograph her on some stranger in a mask's lap." Icky!

Fortunately for her, though, you'd be sure to introduce her to the beneficial aspects of pornography.

[TripletDaddy]

I got a little creeped out by easter yesterday when Faith and I were at the Manhattan Beach shopping mall, getting her Mac fixed at the Apple store. There were these two cute little girls all dressed up in their easter dresses and they were getting photographed with a shopping mall easter bunny, and all I could think to myself was, "If I had a daughter, I would never dress her up and photograph her on some stranger in a mask's lap." Icky!

your mac was broken? lol.

should have went with a pc.

[RobinFinderson]

Fortunately for her, though, you'd be sure to introduce her to the beneficial aspects of pornography.

Naturally.

[Fiyero]

Early morning, April 4, shots rang out in the Norman, OK sky

[il Padrino Ute]

Early morning, April 4, shots rang out in the Norman, OK sky

[LA Ute]

your mac was broken? lol.

should have went with a pc.

It's "gone," fyi.

[pellegrino]

As the others have said, given your upbringing it's no wonder you find Easter creepy. Easter is absolutely my favorite holiday. The weather is usually good, the message (focus on gethsemane and the resurrection, not so much the gruesome details of the crucifixion) is one of hope and renewal. Easter is as important to our family as Christmas is. We celebrate Holy Week with our own liturgy and we make sure the kids know that we're having a big party on Easter, complete with our own egg hunt. It was fun to see our oldest (5) really get into it this year. She was excited all week, talking about how Easter is a special day and we're going to have a special party. She even started planning what she was going to say to wish each family member a happy Easter when we woke up in the morning, she even followed through.

[TripletDaddy]

It's "gone," fyi.

zing!

I should have went with "gone"