Oh, no. Honestly, this is too ridiculous. There is a criminal President in power committing criminal acts, and what are people concerned about? What is the new focus of people's ire? The Easter Bunny. They are banning the flipping Easter Bunny. I am not joking - this is what made the news last night. Several malls have decided the Easter Bunny has to go. The Easter Bunny!!! The EASTER BUNNY!!!!!!! It's not like he has myxomatosis. What's he ever done to you? Did the eggs he delivered give you salmonella or something? Apparently it's because Easter is a religious holiday, and you have to be 'inclusive' now or risk offending non-Christians. Never mind that neither the Bunny nor the word 'Easter' has flip-all to do with Christianity. I don't remember that part of the Passion story, the bit where Jesus is on the Cross and the Bunny comes unto him and lo! offers him some eggs, but alas! He cannot eat of them, for his hands are nailed into solid wood, and the Bunny cannot climb that high. That bit was always edited out. As for the word 'Easter', it is related to the Old English word ''Eostre', a cognate with similar words across Europe which related to an ancient pre-Christian Goddess of the Dawn (the word 'East' as well as the word 'Aurora' have etymological links to this). The bunny legend itself is thought to date from pre-Christian times (see the German 'Osterhase'). So if the fanatical Christian religions managed not to be offended by the use of the term 'Easter' at the time of their most sacred festival, why should bloody shopping malls suddenly decide that the rest of the world should now??? They want to compromise by re-branding him the 'Spring Bunny'. Honestly. Bush is blatantly lying to the public and committing war crimes more terrible than we like to realise, Dick 'Elmer Fudd' Cheney is shooting his friends in the face, and yet people think that changing the name of the Easter Bunny to the Spring Bunny will solve all the world's problems.
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7.4.06 20:59
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(10.4.06 13:41) you'd think that if they wanted to be inclusive, they wouldn't start by excluding things surely in order to be truely inclusive, they should recognise & celebrate all religions & all religious celebrations. though, of course, if they did that, they'd have to have so many days off that there wouldn't be enough time to recruit poor people into the military so that they can be sent halfway round the world to defend the america's freedom to call have religious holidays.still, can't have things both ways, eh? though fair play to america. one of the most religous occidental countries in the world, yet also the country most determined to potray itself as agnostic. that's quite some achievement |
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(11.4.06 01:29) i think that's what george bush must do - he celebrates so many other religions that he simply has to take those days off to play golf. yeah right... he was on tv last night, giving a live-by-satellite-from-the-white-house address to the Nascar race (his true fans, after all; someone once said that it's easier to pull a camel through the eye of a needle than to find a female spouse at a Nascar event who doesn't have a black eye) |
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