[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Eggs are the beginning of life( Easter Sunday),hence Easter EGGS,hot cross buns are marked with a cross due to Good Friday, the good Lord doesn't 'recommend' these things it is the way some Christians celebrate the life and death of Christ,going to mass is another option,why do people get so annoyed with any question about them celebrating a Christian festival ? it's just a question, has Easter been stolen aswell ?

As a matter of fact... yes. It celebrates Oestra, goddess of fertility, who's feast day is 21st March and who's symbols are a hare (the Easter bunny?) and an egg... because she's a fertility goddess. It's also where we get the word 'Oestrogen', for the female hormone.

All that said... Everyone knows Easter is about Jesus Christ and the festival of Easter ties in with the Jewish Passover which was a thing while people in Britain were still running round painting themselves with woad. And no one on this forum could put their hand on their heart and say they are a card-carrying Pagan, everyone knows it's a Christian festival and they still give eggs and take the day off. I am not a Christian or a Pagan and I give Easter eggs and take the day off but I do acknowledge that the festival is a Christian one.

I am completely at ease with seeing this advert in a cinema. As a non-Christian I don't find in in the least insulting and it shocks me that people have made so much fuss about it, especially seeing that many of those same people don't have a problem with Christmas adverts starting at the beginning of November, costing millions in a desperate attempt to get us to buy overpriced stuff we don't need. Christmas is a Christian holiday, whichever way anyone wants to bend it. And I've heard all the stuff about it being a family get-together and how it was nicked from the Pagans... but like I said, no one on here is a Pagan. Plenty of people here have no religion but still take the whole of Christmas off, sing carols, give presents... without for one moment acknowledging the simple truth that Jesus is the reason for the season.