Jesus Week

[Dr Strangelove]

You guys get holidays? Shastokovitch! I didn't even get this past Christmas off!


Are you sure that the Easter Bunny isn't a relatively modern invention? Didn't Teddy Roosevelt invent the Easter egg hunt?

Wouldn't the structure in which Mr Fun attends seder be more properly labeled the gay community synagogue?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Easter bunnies actually comes from the pagan ritual (for the fertility goddess Eoster [I **** you not]) that the Christians took over . So as Winston and Harry Tuttle say, it's not modern.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Alex
Monday is a holiday? In my country the holiday is on Friday, because that is when he was crucified and died.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the Netherlands it was negotiated by unions a long time ago. They didn't think it was fair if a holiday fell in a weekend so people wouldn't have a day off, so the main Christian holidays always last two days over here: you've got your Christmas day and 2nd Christmas day, Easter day and 2nd Easter day, Day of Pentecost and 2nd Day of Pentecost, etc. Of course, if Christmas falls on a Saturday people still b*tch and moan like there's no tomorrow

I'm not a Christian but I don't mind getting the extra days off Unions

[Imran Siddiqui]

If Christmas falls on a Saturday, we get Friday off. If on a Sunday, we get Monday off.

Btw, AFAIK, that's the only federal holiday in the US that has the capacity to fall on a weekend (yes, Easter is NOT a federal holiday). Every other falls on a Monday.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Easter bunnies actually comes from the pagan ritual (for the fertility goddess Eoster [I **** you not]) that the Christians took over . So as Winston and Harry Tuttle say, it's not modern.

Yes, but was the tradition carried throught the ages despite the eradication of European pagans, or did it die out a thousand years ago only to be revived recently as a means to spruce up the celebration of Easter? Without the Easter Bunny there isn't much about Easter to interest most kids other than the traditional Easter dress or suit. Adding the Easter Bunny makes it a more festive holiday.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I believe it was carried through the ages (originally to make Christianity more palatable to the former pagans... and then just became tradional for Christian holidays). Kind of like the Christmas Tree (part of the pagan festivals on that day before the Christians took it).

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
If Christmas falls on a Saturday, we get Friday off. If on a Sunday, we get Monday off.

Btw, AFAIK, that's the only federal holiday in the US that has the capacity to fall on a weekend (yes, Easter is NOT a federal holiday). Every other falls on a Monday.

For XMas the 25th and 26th Dec is free here, but if it's on the weekend it's bad luck. Easter we have friday and monday as free days.

[Elok]

It won't be Easter for over a week. Western n00bs.

[JohnT]

Re: Jesus Week

Originally posted by Gangerolf
Jesus Week is upon us. Society shuts down for five days.

But why? Or "por qué?" as Jesus would say.

Today is when Jesus washed his buddies' feet and served them his body and his blood. Then oddly enough one of them betrayed him. That's why tomorrow is when he got nailed to a cross. Sunday is when he rose from the dead. Not sure why Monday is a holiday, but I'm not complaining.

Anyway I'm just wondering what all of this has got to do with all that other stuff that goes on during Easter. Like eggs and bunnies and the colour yellow. ??

This description, that of "society shutting down for five days", is not apt of America. Why is it, then, that we're the ones accused of being a "theocracy"?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
You guys get holidays? Shastokovitch! I didn't even get this past Christmas off!


Are you sure that the Easter Bunny isn't a relatively modern invention? Didn't Teddy Roosevelt invent the Easter egg hunt?

Wouldn't the structure in which Mr Fun attends seder be more properly labeled the gay community synagogue?

Teddy Roosevelt was the inspiration for the Teddy Bear.

[Dr Strangelove]

Yeah, but wasn't he the first one to host Easter egg hunts on the White House lawn, or was that Franklin Roosevelt, Cal Coolidge or someone else?

I don't think that Easter Bunnies and egg hunts were part of Easter celebration in 19th century America.

[germanos]

Re: Re: Jesus Week

Originally posted by JohnT


This description, that of "society shutting down for five days", is not apt of America. Why is it, then, that we're the ones accused of being a "theocracy"?

poor victim

[JohnT]

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[JohnT]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Yeah, but wasn't he the first one to host Easter egg hunts on the White House lawn, or was that Franklin Roosevelt, Cal Coolidge or someone else?

I don't think that Easter Bunnies and egg hunts were part of Easter celebration in 19th century America.

Two versions of the story follow: Either the angry rollers rushed to the gates of the White House and demanded that they be let in to roll their eggs on the President's lawn or President Rutherford B. Hayes, alerted to the plight of the children, opened the gates to the South Lawn and welcomed all the rollers to his end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Either way, the first White House Easter Egg Roll was held in 1878.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/tours/easter.html

Easter eggs as we know them are pretty old - 400+ years practice in England, and practiced here in America once the Puritans started letting us heathen across.

[germanos]

Originally posted by JohnT
?

exactly. Where are you pulling that sh!t from?