Wife and I disagree on how our kids should celebrate Easter? Fluffly bunnies or a man nailed to a cross?

Question

When it comes to Easter my wife and I most often always argue about how our little 4 year old must interpret Easter.

My wife feels that its a time for a joyfulness occasion where the spring brings a promise of new life and growth. A time of the year for happiness and joy.

I on the other hand find this whole pagan type rubbish and frightening. I therefore like to sit my child down with the bible and impose my belief system on it's tender mind. Stories and pictures of Jesus pinned to a cross with blood gushing down his head are the order of the day over the Easter period for my child.

If any tree hugging pagans want to defend my wife's disgusting view this time of the year then feel free. I will however pray for you all and these heathen attitudes.
Amen.

Answer 1

I think you are both a bit off the mark.

Easter is not about Jesus dying on the cross. Jesus died on Good Friday.

Easter is about Jesus conquering death and sin for all time and raising for the dead. What could be more warm and fuzzy than that?

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Why did you bother asking us 'tree hugging pagans' our opinion in the first place if you are planning on IMPOSING your belief system anyhow on a child, who at 4 is too young to truly understand the idea of sacrifice, agape, redemption and salvation, anyway?

But for my two cents worth, it would be better to instill a love of the Creator and the values of Christianity (that both Paganism and Christianity readily share in common) rather than indoctrinating a young pliable mind with concepts such as sin and the inherent burden of guilt comes with being human according to your belief system.

By all means read the Bible together and pray, just recognize that children do not truly understand the concepts that you want to IMPOSE! The most convincing Christians I know are those who have come to an understanding of their faith as adults.

Brainwashing a child that young may just back fire, let them come to an understanding on their own guided by your experience and wisdom gained in faith. But your wife is right, Easter is about new life and growth, just out in your own terms, the opportunity for new life for sinners and the growth of the kingdom of Heaven.

And btw, an Easter Bunny never hurt anyone.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with letting your 4 year old experience Easter. Let the child be a child. There are ways to explain the Crucifixion of Christ without scarring the child with the images of the act. You can simply explain that some bad men that did not understand that Jesus was Christ. They hung him on a tree to pay for all our sins. Then three days later He Rose and went to heaven to live with the Heavenly Father. After all Easter is about the rising of Christ not his death.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I told my kids that it was a Pagan spring fertility festival, appropriated by the early church for its own use in converting the Pagans to Christianity. It was about NEW LIFE, as symbolized by eggs, rabbits, honoring Eostre. (Eostre - Easter, see that?) Anyway, we figure that the spring festival, the "renewal of life" thing, managed to find its way into Christianity pretty easily, since Jesus supposedly did what? Came back to life. Since we aren't Christians or Pagans and none of us believes ANY of that rubbish, we skip Easter completely.


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Answer 6

Easter is about Christ Resurrection. Always tell your kids the truth. Never lie to them. Even the fuzzy lovie white lies. Santa Clause too. Teach your children to give glory to God not the Easter bunny or Santa Clause. Keeping your kids from truth b/c you think it will protect them or you think it is cute is a worldly philosophy.

Answer 7

I find it more frightening to "celebrate" the gruesome murder and death of a Jewish rabbi, than I do to hunt for easter eggs. If you took all of the pagan influences out of Christianity, you wouldn't be left with a lot. Easter, Christmas, All Saints Day (Halloween - All Hallows eve), Valentines day, and I could go on... and on.... and on.... Anyway, i am not sure that "The Christ" would recognize Christianity if he were to return today.

Answer 8

Explain to ur young child that God sent his son to teach us the right way to live, but was crucified by those that did not believe he was the true son of God, then tell ur child he arose from the dead and now lives in heaven with his father. Tell him/her that we celebrate Esther as a happy time because that is when Christ returned to us and lives in our hearts to this day.Omit graphic pics and details that a 4 yr. old mind cannot grasp. In simple language tell ur child the true meaning of the Esther joy and celebration.

Answer 9

Fluffy Man Bunny nailed to the cross? Sounds like a decent compromise!

Answer 10

Well I feel sorry for your child.

You'd rather try to scar a childs young mind with images of human sacrifice rather then to let a child be a child? Is that what it means to be Christian? To smile on human sacrifice and try to push that on a child that can't realize your religion is brutal and total garbage?