Atheists, please give an honest answer without anger and lashing out !!! I would like to know if any of you celebrate Easter every year? PLEASE, be ladies and gentlemen here and give an honest answer??? Thanx!
2007-08-27 12:32:58 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good answers - but to those who think I am being over cautious - well guys, I have been lashed out at atheists in the past, just like you are doing to me right now!
2007-08-27 13:13:51 · update #1
yes and no. i dont when its just me, but to keep my daughter happy (shes 10 and lives with a christian mother) i do. i will get her an easter basket and candy and the like, but i dont discuss religeon and the like. i just tell her we all have different beliefs and thats ok. same with christmas.
plus its easy to just go along and not have everyone all in your business as to why you dont do this or that. i HATE getting into an argument about my own PRIVATE beliefs.
2007-08-27 12:47:53 · answer #1 · answered by chevy_man_rob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an athiest, but I have an opinion anyway. Most Christians don't even REALLY celebrate Easter. Last time I checked, rabbits don't lay eggs - where the freak did that come from? I know when my kids were small, it was so easy to focus on the baskets and the sickening pastel decorations and to TOTALLY not even think about what we were celebrating. It's a lot like Christmas. It's so commercialized that it's hard to make it a true spiritual experience. It is an interesting question though - I wonder how many Judeo-Christian "things" are embedded in the athiest life without even consciously knowing. Probably more of a social influence than a spiritual one, but probably also more prevalent than most care to imagine or admit.
2007-08-27 21:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a four day holiday over Easter from Good Friday to Easter Monday. If I work over Easter I get double time and a half so for four days' work I get ten days' pay. If I don't work over Easter, I still get paid for the Friday and the Monday even though I am not at work.
If Christians want to go to church and do Eastery things, that's fine by me. I just enjoy the holiday or the extra money and don't feel guilty or hypocritical about it at all. Same with Christmas.
2007-08-27 19:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter is a wonderful holiday, named for the Goddess of Spring. There have always been spring festivals, celebrating the return of the warm days and marking the occasion when the feilds should be prepared for planting. The celebration of Christ's resurrection is merely another of these "rites of spring." If you look at it from an agricultural society's point of view, you will see the symbolism of the death of the seed giving rise to the life of the plant, much like in the old English folk song, "John Barleycorn Must Die."
2007-08-27 19:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I blimmin' well do.
Its about life after 'death' - spring after winter.
Anyway, it's a natural 'festival'; the vernal equinox. I have celebrated the seasons since I more fully understood the cycle some 20-odd years ago.
Marking it strengthens my sense of connectivity with the living world, a thing precious of itself, not needing us to glorify it, or ourselves, but it is a part of us too, something awe-inspiring and fundamental that I can't put into words but feel right to celebrate and recognize. To 'feel'. Ritual has a part in all of us, not just organized religions. Nature has it's own inescapable rituals, I like that and feel disconnected if I lock myself indoors for too long.
I find organized religious appropriations of the natural cycle a pale comparison to the real richness of life, growth and death.
But that's just me. Although I do prefer Beltaine (May Day), which is when the juices of life really get flowing...
the ale too...
Ah, to be in England in the summertime....
I wonder why Christians use the old pagan word 'Easter'??
2007-08-27 19:50:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to celebrate Easter,but I never went to any Easter church services and I never celebrated it as the "ressurection" of God either. I simply did all the other stuff that comes with Easter. But since the Christians essentially replaced earlier Pagan traditions with their "ressurrection" I believe anyone may celebrate Easter that chooses to.
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2007-08-27 19:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate my family on these days... they are religous, and have other intentions, but for me... these holidays are family togetherness. Of course, easter (to a lesser extent, as spring was the coming of the harvest/planting season) and christmas were both adopted and adapted by christianity from pagan religions, so in a sense, I'm just doing the same thing to your holidays that christians did to other religious holidays. Its the message that matters, and to me, the message is family.
2007-08-27 19:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would an Atheist lash out at a question like this? But to answer your question, no. Christmas? That's a different story.
2007-08-27 19:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by Ares 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holy crap, you have some real issues lady. Atheists are not time bombs waiting to go off. You could have just as easily as said, "Hey atheists, I don't know anything about your customs or non-beliefs. Do you guys celebrate Easter in any way?"
2007-08-27 19:42:24 · answer #9 · answered by meissen97 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes we do celebrate Easter, the pagan holiday of the coming of Spring. But we don't celebrate the Resurrection of Christ.
2007-08-27 19:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋