Easter has come and gone and I am still very much in the spirit of the most religous time of christendom. Some may think it is Christmas but with Christ dying on the cross and rising, only do we see the true birth of Christianity. Without it, Christ is just another prophet like Moses, Elijah or Daniel. Anyway, I am not going to talk about Christianity in that context. In the spirit of Easter, I just appaled and of coz super surprised as to how some things have come about.
For example, we have the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion and his rising to heaven on the 3rd day. How in all things pure did we arrive at chocolate coloured eggs and easter bunny??? What is the co-relation??? The internet list the reason as the early church using pagan celebrations of fertility to accelerate the assimilation and acceptance of Christianity. I can understand that since all rabbits do is..welll...u know. And the egg is a another sign of re-production. Thank goodness nobody thought to the placenta! Dat would be fun eh? "Come on kisd, let's all go look for the Easter-assimilated-pagan-symbol-of-reproduction, the placenta.". "I found it!! It's this brown looking...EEEAAARRGGHHH!!!".
But how long ago was this shit??? Some 800-900 years ago?? Someone must have come to their senses by now? Since is a pagan thing from Roman, Saxon and Celtic times, how come only the US seems to be flourishing in it? I think there is some sort of similar celebration in England but it is mainly in the US (the Brits are wierd anyway...they are the ones who created a new religion so that their King can satisfy his lust for women in the name of finding a heir). So much so that sometimes churches in Malaysia will organize something similar as children's activities during Easter Sundays. Isn't that a wild stretch? Rabbits, eggs and crucifixion of Jesus?
Even kids are going "Rabbits don't lay or eat or are even remotely interested in eggs!!". I am also quite pissed at the using of Xmas trees and Santa to represent Chrismas, the birth of Christ. Unfortunately I am also taken in by de Xmas tress thing where I will religiously put it up during Xmas and not taking down the next year, when it is time to put it up again. It gives some sort of ambience and happiness but make no mistake...I m pissed about it.
So people, I strongly urge you to stop all these practices of using pagan symbols in the internet age where information is readily available to the masses on how things should rightly be. Stop wasting your money buying Santa suits, trees, rabbits, eggs, etc. Start doing something for the poor and unfortunate, which is what Easter and Christmas is about. Save up your cash and send them to me....the poor Chindian that is lost in all this cultural confusion and I will save you some chocolate eggs and rabbit meat.
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