The Death of Easter
With Spring Morning three weeks away at this writing, it’s not too soon to get some Paas Spring Egg Dye and for the ladies to start looking for their spring bonnets so they can strut their stuff down Fifth Avenue in the Spring Day Parade. And, don’t forget to lay in a good supply of jellybeans so the little ones can really enjoy the Spring Baskets the Spring Bunny leaves for them!
Preposterous? Not even close.
Remember Easter pageants? Recall Easter break from school? They’re long gone and so, too, will all other mention of Easter be abolished if the P.C. secularists get their way.
Killing Christmas and all that feast day means to Christians didn’t quite cut it with the anti-Christian, War On Christmas set. Now they’re out to kill the Easter Bunny, or at least to eliminate the word “Easter” from the American lexicon. Of course, “they” haven’t yet succeeded in eliminating the word “Christmas” in favor of “holiday” and “winter,” which is not to say they’re not doing their darnedest to make the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ about as significant as Arbor Day.
The good news is that no efforts to date have been recorded to abolish mention of the Jewish festival of Hannukah, Islam’s Eid-ul-Fitr, Buddhism’s Visakah Puja, or Hinduism’s Diwali, although the Roman Saturnalia has gone by the wayside.
Christians celebrate Easter Sunday as the central feast of Christianity, the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ which in Western Christianity marks the end of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and penance in preparation for Easter. Eggs, bonnets, parades, and bunnies have at best only a tangential relation to the religious import of the festival but they are all elements of the Easter tradition.
Except maybe in Munson, Ohio . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4040)
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Death of Christmas, Part II: Christian Complicity
In “The Death of Christmas, Part I,” I indulged myself with musings on the good old days when Christmastime was, well, Christmastime and not Happy Holidays-time or Wondrous Winter Wonderland-time.
Public school high school and middle school musicals in those days of yore customarily presented Christmas shows in Decembers back then, reflecting the interests of students and their parental, and grandparental, units.
That’s a thing of the past, one more tradition tossed under the bus of political correctness and the new secularism sweeping the country.
And those prime but not exclusive celebrants of Christmas are as responsible as anyone else for this “revolting turn of events,” to quote from an old radio/tv show, “The Life Of Riley.”
Some of us prefer to carp about the secularization of December 25th and yet do nothing to change things.
Others, such as audiences at those “Winter Concerts” devoid of any reference to Christmas, applaud politely and listlessly in disappointment at the musical fare presented and they too do diddlyjacksquat to insist the presenters hark back to tradition.
Nor do most of us object to borderline and cross-borderline sacriligious and merely-inappropriate goings on in our society.
Those carpers, those all-too-tolerant Christmas celebrants who accept the new status quo, are as complicit in the death of Christmas as the secularists, the mockers, the retailers, and the Obama administration.
This Christmas season’s latest affronts to Christian beliefs include these “comical” representations of the birth of Jesus Christ attended by a dinosaur and a sultry Mother of God, Mary: http://bit.ly/7Gql29
All very amusing to secularists, all very blasphemous to practicing Christians who nevertheless tolerate it.
Further insult to Christian injury was added by the White House’s decision, since rescinded, to do away with the Christmas creche in the White House.
The reason for the recission seems to have been a rare grassroots objection. Obama is very attuned to grassroots, aka voters.
It was originally decided by Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and other Obamians to dispense with the traditional display of an eighteenth century creche in the East Room:
“White House social secretary Desiree Rogers revealed to The New York Times that the Obamas were planning a “non-religious” Christmas for the “people’s house,” on the basis that Christians are responsible for the secularization of our national and religious festivity: http://bit.ly/8S08aL
Precisely what “people” Rogers had in mind is unclear, considering that Christians in America constitute at least 76% of the population. . .
(Read the rest athttp://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1374)
Public school high school and middle school musicals in those days of yore customarily presented Christmas shows in Decembers back then, reflecting the interests of students and their parental, and grandparental, units.
That’s a thing of the past, one more tradition tossed under the bus of political correctness and the new secularism sweeping the country.
And those prime but not exclusive celebrants of Christmas are as responsible as anyone else for this “revolting turn of events,” to quote from an old radio/tv show, “The Life Of Riley.”
Some of us prefer to carp about the secularization of December 25th and yet do nothing to change things.
Others, such as audiences at those “Winter Concerts” devoid of any reference to Christmas, applaud politely and listlessly in disappointment at the musical fare presented and they too do diddlyjacksquat to insist the presenters hark back to tradition.
Nor do most of us object to borderline and cross-borderline sacriligious and merely-inappropriate goings on in our society.
Those carpers, those all-too-tolerant Christmas celebrants who accept the new status quo, are as complicit in the death of Christmas as the secularists, the mockers, the retailers, and the Obama administration.
This Christmas season’s latest affronts to Christian beliefs include these “comical” representations of the birth of Jesus Christ attended by a dinosaur and a sultry Mother of God, Mary: http://bit.ly/7Gql29
All very amusing to secularists, all very blasphemous to practicing Christians who nevertheless tolerate it.
Further insult to Christian injury was added by the White House’s decision, since rescinded, to do away with the Christmas creche in the White House.
The reason for the recission seems to have been a rare grassroots objection. Obama is very attuned to grassroots, aka voters.
It was originally decided by Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and other Obamians to dispense with the traditional display of an eighteenth century creche in the East Room:
“White House social secretary Desiree Rogers revealed to The New York Times that the Obamas were planning a “non-religious” Christmas for the “people’s house,” on the basis that Christians are responsible for the secularization of our national and religious festivity: http://bit.ly/8S08aL
Precisely what “people” Rogers had in mind is unclear, considering that Christians in America constitute at least 76% of the population. . .
(Read the rest athttp://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1374)
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