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Krizaz
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http://www.retailcomic.com/comics/Retail.20110424_large.gif
Actually, if you read the retail comic strip it has a whole month dedicated to that one story line for the sunday strip.

I'll give you an real example.

Easter morning, 2011 years after the supposed Christ was born. My little sister jumps out of bed at 6:30 in the morning and immediatly finds her easter basket and finds toys and candy... Sound a bit like christmas?

Christmas morning, 2011 years after Christ dies (I think). My sister jumps out of bed at 6:00 in the morning and immediately takes down her stalking. Inside the stalking are toys and candy... Sounds a bit like Easter?

I'm not saying Easter sucks, or that it's wrong to treat Easter like Christmas (actually I am). But I just think that if there's another Christmas imagine the strain on parents. Spendings tons of money on kids during Christmas is enough, who needs that again a mere 4 months later?

What I'm saying... Is don't treat easter like Christmas, it's not fair to your parents or grandparents, or any family member.
http://www.asklopan.com/pictures/evil%20easter%20bunny%20(6).jpg

Maybe I'm just typing this up because nothing is happening in the forums.... Because I am. And I like to see my topics get discussion. So input your opinions of Eastermas, and tell your experiences of sitting of St. Easters lap.

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Freakenstein
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Children now get presents and toys from Easter? Sheesh. I could have sworn that the federal holiday of Easter was to wake up, fast until dinner, eat the buttload of food, receive an Easter basket full of candy, paint boiled eggs, and go on Easter egg hunts.

However, if children and parents want Easter to be ChristmasII, then I don't see why we shouldn't allow it. I will assert, however, that having no equal of Christmas makes it that much more enjoyable. That, and if you want your financial situation to be more intact, then I suggest you don't follow the example in the OP.

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Easter morning, 2011 years after the supposed Christ was born. My little sister jumps out of bed at 6:30 in the morning and immediatly finds her easter basket and finds toys and candy... Sound a bit like christmas?


You get toys for easter? When I was a kid, my parents just hid an easter egg for each of the kids filled with candy somewhere in the house and then me and my siblings ran around looking for them. Easter's never really been a big deal to me. In fact, if it hadn't been for the threads here on the forum and the easter event on WoW, I'd probably not even have noticed it was happening right now.
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I would state the real meaning of Easter but alot of religion contradicting people would bombard this post and this thread.

Wow, toys on Easter?! I got nothing D:. Not one thing.

MageGrayWolf
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I use to sometimes get a toy or two for Easter. though it wasn't anything near what it was like with Christmas. Mostly candy for Easter.

dair5
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I don't get anything for easter. Nothing at all. well, i get to go to chruch.

Krizaz
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i get to go to chruch.


Yay...

I used to go to church, but then me and my family cared less about church and became atheist or agnostics. Although, we still celebrate Christmas and Easter.

As for the presents. Well, I got 2, not totaling over $5, same with my sister. But I can see in 10-15 years people going all out for easter the way we go all out for Christmas.
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I hate how all the religious holidays are becoming more and more commercial. It is nice to get candy and the occasional gift, but this has gotten far out of hand. Gifts are really a more Christmas/birthday thing.
One other thing I'm annoyed back is how much we seem to care for certain holidays. Christmas, being Jesus's birth, is more widely celebrated, but the holiday of Easter is far more important to Christians. It really should be the other way around.

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In the past religion ruled the world. Nowadays, it is economy.
But taking a day of the year and calling it "the buy-your-child-an-expensive-toy-by-my-shop" sounded horrible... so they simply called that day "Christmas". They so it worked and did the same with other ones. Next one will be Easter, I think.

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I think it's best to do all this stuff just after the holiday so everything is really reduced. And I think twice a year with gifts and stuff is enough really although it doesn't matter what date you do it on.

Avorne
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Considering that it's extremely unlikely that Jesus was even born on December 25th anyway - it's not like celebrating Christmas is really celebrating the J-man's B-day.

Avorne
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On a related note - here's a really interesting video about the origins of Christmas.

Dragonblaze052
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You have Easter's and Christmas's causes switched.

They are completely different!
On Christmas, Saint Nicollas flies around on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer at night giving children gifts because the Magi gave baby Jesus gifts.
On Easter, a giant white rabbit hops around hiding eggs and giving kids candy because Jesus came back to life.

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Easter morning, 2011 years after the supposed Christ was born. My little sister jumps out of bed at 6:30 in the morning and immediatly finds her easter basket and finds toys and candy... Sound a bit like christmas?

Christmas morning, 2011 years after Christ dies (I think). My sister jumps out of bed at 6:00 in the morning and immediately takes down her stalking. Inside the stalking are toys and candy... Sounds a bit like Easter?


Actually, Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of Christ, and Easter Sunday is the final day he was on Earth after the resurrection. I generally agree on gift- giving and stuff because I, as a Christian, celebrate Jesus, and so we give gifts to celebrate important moments like that.
But I also agree that retail takes these holidays way too far with all of the commercializing and that stuff. I have this book that I need to read about the origins of the sandy clause and the easterr bunny and all that, I have to read it, and I'll get back with the origin
Avorne
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Oh, you want to know about the origin of the Easter Bunny?

The Easter bunny is a pagan symbol of fertility, probably tracing its origin from being the protected/blessed/favorite/pet animal of Ostara, (or Eostre in old English), Goddess of fertility. Bunnies being, you know, fertile (they breed like them, of course!).


The 'fertility symbol' part goes for Easter Eggs too.
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I thought it was from the anglo saxon legend. That there was a wounded bird and a man turned it into hare so it could survive the winter. Then the hare found it could only lay eggs. So it decorates them and gives them out at easter.

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