After thinking for a while, I think he has a fair point, holidays have been comercalized to the point when the true meanings don't matter anymore. Anywho, the first holiday I want to point out is Easter, can somebody please tell me what the Easter Bunny has to do with Jesus's resurrection?
Another one is Halloween, how CAN parents say it's not okay to take candy from strangers, but on that one night you go door to door asking people you don't know for candy and they might have stuffed all sorts of things in it.
The only reason why I'm not asking about Christmas is because who really knows if Jesus was born on that particular day, for all we know he could've been born in January or March or whatever.
2007-10-13 05:25:53 · 6 answers · asked by calypsocaper 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Carlos Mencia is a garbage comedian.
2007-10-13 05:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by queenisawesome 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A point, but not a very good one.
The origins are irrelevant; they're cobbled together from various traditions; many of them a combo of Christianity (and its parent Judaism) and paganism. So what?
Easter, nominally about Resurrection and therefore rebirth, is about spring -- the yearly rebirth of the world. Plants "come back to life" critters have babies, the sun comes back.
Since everyone in this culture knows about Halloween, people expect to give out candy to kids coming to the door. People who go around trying to give candy to strange children are generally up to no good. When you were a child, did you find it impossible to make this distinction?
I'm an atheist, so I couldn't give a rat's *ss about "the meaning of Christmas". Here in the northern hemisphere the sun has gone away (my theory: it goes south to be with the birds); it's dark and cold and gloomy.
Except we put pretty colored lights all over the place, make nice hot toddies, and eat big meals of nummy rich food.
We get together with others to be cheerful this gloomy time of year, and get together with family to give each other things.
Sometimes we sing (many of my favorite memories are of this -- like the time we started singing, and realize how enchanted by this was my little nephew, not 2 years old; the look on his face as we sang a carol was absolute MAGIC).
It's nice to have holidays -- whichever collection of holidays you want to celebrate, and for whatever reasons. It breaks the monotony, it's fun. It marks the passage of the years.
If you don't want to play, no one's forcing you.
But I like them. (Some of them, many of them I ignore completely; or rarely celebrate.)
2007-10-13 18:30:03 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody likes to make jokes about holidays, and how the meanings have mixed. as it happens, most of the things we do for each holiday ARE there for a reason. remember that almost ALL christian holidays are based on original pagan holidays, and some of the traditions come from that (and that includes the Easter Bunny), so lets have some fun and some open-mindedness and who cares what day it's on? it's the spirit of the holiday that matters. and my god, i don't think anyone on Halloween is 'taking candy from strangers' -- what are they, stealing? what are all these strangers, axe murderers? it's a spirit of giving and fun; if someone doesn't want to participate they don't have to. and yes, it also goes back a long way in history. so lighten up and have fun with it, celebrate how you want to, the way you want to, for the reasons you want to.
2007-10-13 13:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by KJC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i havent heard his view on this but from what you are saying i can figure most of it out. i think he has a point to some degree. some people are more religious than others and celebrate holidays differently, but i think all holidays bring family together and i think that is whats important.
i think the easter bunny has to do with the fact that it signifies the coming of spring. i do think people have lost the true meanings of holidays, especially when you have people of other religions getting christmas trees simply because its part of the holiday spirit, but i guess the "holidays" now are just a part of winter and are expected. i think christmas has definitely become too commercial but i think most christians do take time to reflect on the meaning on the holiday by going to church.
2007-10-13 12:38:57 · answer #4 · answered by orangcrush42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you tell me what Jesus' resurrection has to do with the pagan festival of Ostara? I mean in all honestly there's no proof that he was resurrected in the spring, kinda like his birth. (by proof I mean like a birth certificate... and no, the bible doesn't count for this).
2007-10-13 13:06:50 · answer #5 · answered by The Nikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Carlos Mencia should kill himself :)
2007-10-13 12:33:07 · answer #6 · answered by Trash 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋