Do you celebrate Easter?

[Shell Beau]

Even if you aren't a Christian?

[Call Me Wesley]

1. I enjoy and try to respect all holidays.

And there will be some eggs on my altar. ;)

[Shine]

2. Yup, what he said.

:hug:

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

9. And we get 4 days off!

That does count, too! ;)

:hug:

[enigmatic]

21. yep

Mrs.E is cooking up a gigantic Hutterite Chicken for Easter this Sunday; to us, a Holiday is a special day, even if it's one we don't "celebrate" in the way it was intended..

[ernstbass]

3. I eat easter candy

and I'm not a Xtian. Does that count?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

38. Read City of Joy

where everybody celebrated everything. They know how to live over there in Calcutta.

[ohiosmith]

4. Yes, in that we will visit my wife's mother and family on Vancouver Island

and have a traditional Russian Easter breakfast. No religious services etc.

[ZombieNixon]

5. I'm not Christian, yet

I get drunk and run around the halls of my dorm yelling "HAPPY RE-BIRTHDAY, JESUS!!!" at the top of my lungs at 3 AM.

That count? :shrug: :silly: ;)

[Shell Beau]

6. Sure that counts....

I think! :yoiks:



:P

[Ariana Celeste]

41. I dunno about the screaming, but,

I'll be getting drunk too. :7 :hi:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

46. Getting drunk on Easter is an ancient tradition

you think the Twelve Apostles stayed sober? I think not!


T-Grannie

[Ariana Celeste]

48. That's what I tell my SO

(every holiday) :7 :hi:

[riona]

7. we leave cookies out for the easter bunny

[Shell Beau]

8. And by the looks of it, he enjoys them!!!

:)

[China_cat]

10. Fattening him up for Easter dinner?

[azmouse]

15. Are those carrot cookies?

[KitchenWitch]

17. What, no pancakes?

[ihaveaquestion]

11. It's a great excuse to cook a roast of lamb!

I invite my Australian friend, Paul, over for dinner and he just loves it! Then we let him trounce us all at Trivial Pursuit, which he also loves to do.

[seemunkee]

12. Used to

When my mom was alive we would have Passover at the in-laws and then the least Kosher meal ever of ham and auGratin potatoes at my moms. My wife and kids didn't care it was being with Grandma that mattered. Family trumps religion every time.

[In_The_Wind]

13. I bite the ears off chocolate bunnies.

Does that count?

[Left Is Write]

14. I am so I do.

It's my favorite holiday on the church calendar.

[Shell Beau]

16. I am so I do too!!

:)

[Nicole]

36. I am so I do too!!

:)

[Jokerman]

18. Why would a non-christian celebrate easter?

I mean truly celebrate it as a religious holiday rather than participate in the more secular traditions that have sprung up around it.

I gather with friends and exchange gifts on xmas but if asked if I am celebrating a religious holiday, I would have to say no.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

40. I would think Easter Sunday

might be a great day to NOT be a Christian..stores are quiet, parks are kind of empty. Restaurants would be full, though.

[Jokerman]

68. For me, every day is a great day not to be a christian.

But that's just my opinion.

I grew up with zero religious training so easter is as foreign to me as most other holy days.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

81. See, there is completion in the universe

because you and I cancel one another out! Every day I am grateful for my faith and it's a great day not to be an atheist!

Life is good. Happy spring.

[Zhade]

60. Because it's not original to Christianity?

Because it was actually co-opted?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

82. Don't you figure the Pagans

lifted it from the Pre-Pagans?

Celebrating spring and rebirth has to be a universal.

[saltpoint]

19. I do a live-and-let-live thing on Easter and most other holidays and

usually wind up at the movies.

Watching a film is a good thing for me to be doing anyway.

[alarimer]

20. I don't celebrate it

And it really pisses me off that EVERYTHING is closed Easter Sunday around here. Grocery stores, a lot of restaurants. Well I suppose not everything exactly but a lot of stores. Hopefully bars are still open though LOL.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

42. Around here just

about everything is open. I think one of the big grocery chains closes, but not WalMart! Never WalMart!

[Ava]

22. I am a Christian

so yes, i celebrate it.

[RebelOne]

23. Nope. Atheists don't celebrate a mythical rising from the dead

of a man who possibly didn't exist.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

43. But do you eat chocolate?

How can you not eat chocolate bunnies?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

65. Well of course they don't!

T-Grannie

[billyskank]

24. If by "celebrate" you mean stuff myself with chocolate till I barf

then maybe yeah. :crazy:

[Shell Beau]

28. Of course!! We all need to make ourselves sick with all the

yummy Easter candy! Robin's eggs are my FAVORITE!!!

[dr.strangelove]

25. I do an egg hunt in the neighborhood

We will do the easter bunny thing too.
I'm all for the "magic" kid parts of holidays. We do santa, the tooth fairy and the easter bunny.

[mvd]

26. No baskets anymore, but we see relatives for it

And have some chocolate and a nice dinner.

[SOteric]

27. I am a practicing Christian. This is the biggie

on the Christian holiday hit parade. So yes, I celebrate. I even put the palms in my avatar up on Palm Sunday.

[Shell Beau]

29. Awesome! I didn't even notice the palms until now!

Yes, as a Christian myself, this is the biggie!

[DS1]

30. I thought you were celebrating spring

:blush:

[SOteric]

31. Actually that was

'sproing' we were celebrating last night.

[DS1]

32. I wondered when 'sproing' was going to find itself

slipped into the equation... :-)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

85. It won't be long now....

Lent is almost over. A joyful Eastertide to you and yours!

[texas1928]

33. I cook rabbit every year.

:evilgrin:

[LSK]

34. whats Easter?

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[scarlet_owl]

35. Easter is my busiest time of year.

Lots of church and other activities.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

37. I am a Christian

and it's the most sacred holiday in my year. Pure joy.

[mzteris]

39. if it involves chocolate

I'm in!

[baby_mouse]

44. I drum on a hill in the centre of Edinburgh for Beltane.

13 Thousand or so people come to watch us perform and celebrate the resurrection of the Green Man and the coming of Spring and Good Fortune after Winter.

It's good. :-)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

45. When is Beltane?

Sounds like a great party.

[LiberalEsto]

53. It starts the night of April 30

and continues into May 1

[Bill McBlueState]

96. I've been reading about Beltane

Sounds like a kick-ass holiday. Too bad the commies stole it!

[Sisaruus]

47. I am an atheist but

I do easter pizza because it sort of ryhmes.

[Alleycat]

49. Yes I'm for all Holidays

I decorate the house and dye the eggs, easter baskets with jelly beans and chocolate the whold bit.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

84. Heck yeah!

Come Monday a lot of bunnies w/out ears and a whole lot of egg salad. The grandkids are going to a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt tomorrow. That should be worth some good pix.

[Alleycat]

95. HA HA

I laugh about the egg salad. It is only me and my daughter who is now 14 but we love to do the eggs and always do way too many. Next week it will be all about the egg salad!!!!!

[Mizmoon]

50. Both the religious and secular parts - and I have a peudo-seder

I love holidays, period. I figure Jesus had a seder, why shouldn't I? I can't follow all the rules like the 4 questions, of course, but I try.

[Strong Atheist]

51. No. nt.

[Book Lover]

52. Nope

<snarkycomment> Either every day is holy, or none are. </snarkycomment>

[beyurslf]

54. Not really. No kids. Not a Christian

[Generator]

55. You mean da Bunny?

I said yesterday, (bad I know) to my husband, general depression over death, Iran, Iraq, and getting old, "It's so pointless." My daughter heard this and said: "Easter's not pointless!" Well, there you go. Chocolate is certainly on par with any old religion and the passion of the Easter Bunny is felt in non-Christian homes everywhere. It's hilarious because, my daughter refuses to NOT believe. I told her there wasn't really an Easter Bunny but she refused that concept,and wore us out asking if there really was one. So, yes, there is an Easter Bunny, Viriginia. As long as little tummies everywhere crave Peeps and chocolate bunnies-HE LIVES.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

86. And as long as there are bunnies, which I

think are about the dearest mammals there are. I love rabbits. Unless they are in my garden, but even then they are so damned CUTE!

[0007]

56. Sometimes but not in the Christian sense.

[Xipe Totec]

57. Of Course!

A bunch of pious hypocrites from the office take the whole week off, so I get to work in peace,

thank God.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

83. Ah, I know the feeling.

But I had to work this Holy Week. I really would have enjoyed being a pious hypocrite, but it just wasn't happening.

[Xipe Totec]

88. Not all pious are hypocrites

Not all hypocrites are pious.

But those who practice piety only on holy days are pious hypocrites indeed.

Somehow, I doubt you fall in that category. Then again, I do not know you.

But I do know those of whom I speak.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

89. I'm sure

I've been as hypocritical as the next person in my life, but I think I'm doing pretty well right now.

One of my favorite cartoons shows two ladies in church, wearing big hats. The quip goes something like this: "Gee, Millie, you'd think the regulars would stay home on Christmas and Easter and let the rest of us find a seat!"

There have been a few years when I (gulp) found myself back in church for the first time after Xmas Eve on Ash Weds. I never quite got as far as Easter. Back in the day I was always in the choir. Once I quit, my attendance became a bit more sporadic.

[Xipe Totec]

91. What is piety to me?

To me, piety is practicing Christ's teachings every day; love thy neighbor, what you do to the least of my brothers..., my temple should be a place of worship...

What I cannot suffer are those who practice piety only in church, and act like absolute Republicans when they step outside the temple (pardon my course language).

I was born and raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school, I was an acolyte as a boy, and I played the guitar for church choir as a teenager. Yet, I've not set foot in church, except for funerals and weddings, since I turned 20.

I do not mock those who attend church regularly, I respect them. If (and this is the kicker) they practice what they learned while on their knees offering their devotions to the Trinity.

You see, to me, ritual without understanding is meaningless, and vows without commitment is a mockery of the Divine. Those are the ones on whom I pour my scorn. Not those who believe, but those who pretend to believe. Those are the pious hypocrites.

I know from your original reply that I offended you. For that, I apologize. I was speaking very specifically of some few who have revealed themselves for what they are, and not speaking in general about church-going people.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

92. No, no

you didn't offend me at all. Not at all...truly. I agree with your definition of piety.

Some of the worst folks I ever met were at my church. One was a pedophile predator. On the other hand, most of the people I knew, I knew from church so maybe that isn't such a good example.

I know that the sort of people you describe are unpleasant. I've been fortunate to encounter very few of them in my life, tho the ones I see on TV give me the creeps.

Peace...


T-Grannie

[Xipe Totec]

93. .

:hug:

[2bfree]

58. No.

nt

[NNadir]

59. We do bunny and egg stuff with the kids.

Before I had kids, I used to do Good Friday in memory of my mother, but I don't do it any more.

[ikojo]

61. Um....that would be a no....

Easter, particularly Holy Week that precedes Easter, was often the time of the most brutal pogroms against Jews in Russia. The clerics would get the peasants all in an uproar about the death of Jesus and encourage them to take their anger out on the Jews.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

74. Those are not good memories

[u4ic]

62. No, I'm not a Christian

but my family is, and that means a nice big easter dinner. And I'm not immune to eating a chocolate bunny or two. :D

[leftofthedial]

63. Every year, I open the garage door

and every year, there is no body.

does that count?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

73. If you live with someone suicidal

that would be welcome news!

[swag]

64. No, and I don't have a Passover seder and I don't fast during Ramadan, and

so on.

What are you doing for Easter, Shell Beau?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

66. I don't fast during Ramadan either

but I've been to seders. I love boiled eggs.

[Shell Beau]

75. My husband and I are going back to our home town where

we will attend church services at the Episcopal church and then have an Easter lunch afterwards!! :)

[swag]

77. Don't get too drunk!

[Shell Beau]

78. Me? Never!

:rofl:







:P

[Random_Australian]

67. Yup! Just a little, nothing formal. O.K. I'll admit it, I use it as an

occasion to be really nice and give chocolate. Really, I'm just looking for an excuse.

[kedrys]

69. Used to...not anymore

It's the birthday of my late, lamented kitty Marble, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge the day before Thanksgiving a year ago and change. :( She would have been 17 this year.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

87. Rest in Peace Marble.

[cleofus1]

70. no not really

I'm not even totally convinced Christ even really existed...but i think i will get the kids some of those cool easter baskets they have at the grocery store...is that "celebrating?"

[GalleryGod]

71. Sure Do!

No Broadway this year. My baby has to work:loveya: But..I've got an Australian leg-of-lamb ready to go.

[SmileyBoy]

72. I used to celebrate it secularly when I was a kid...

Nowadays it's just a time of the year where I can buy extra-special candy.:)

I'm Muslim, BTW

[Shell Beau]

76. Well, then I guess as a Muslim you wouldn't celebrate Easter!

:) But of course, there is no need to miss out on all the good candy!! :9

[CrazyThinker]

79. Sure...candy,big bunny, and coloring eggs

I don't go to church or anything. I do the whole commercial thing. I don't really have a faith I follow. I am trying to get into Buddhism, but I don't want my kids to miss out on the stuff I got as a kid like candy and egg hunts. I want to be a Buddhist not them. That is something for them to figure out on there own. I have taken them to Catholic church(nephew had first communion) and my neo-con mother has tried to push her new found evangelical stuff on them. I do what I can to deflect it and show them as many different ways as possible.

[Arugula Latte]

80. I try to think of it as "Spring Celebration"--the Jesus part depresses me

I like the ORIGINAL meaning before it was co-opted by the silly Jesus mythology. The kids dye eggs and we eat chocolate -- I can get into that. :9

[TallahasseeGrannie]

90. You can't feel depressed

about any holiday that serves up chocolate, I'd say! I'm getting mine tomorrow.

[Midlodemocrat]

94. Yes. I am a practicing Catholic.

This is our most holy of days. The resurrection of our Lord.

And yes, my kids get candy from the bunny.