Sunday, 12 April 2009
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The True Meaning of Easter
You know what I'm tired of? People taking religious holidays and commercializing them until their original meanings are lost. I'm tired of Easter's true meaning being forgotten by everyone except the followers of its founding religion. But no, people have taken it away from them and tried to make it all about Jesus.I mean seriously, it's a pagan fertility festival. Who takes a holiday about life and makes it about some guy dying? That's terrible. Sure, they kept the bunnies and the eggs and left the name as a homage to Eostre, the goddess of the dawn, but still, the holiday has turned into breakfasts at churches and hailing to the cross.
If Easter had been left alone, I think that it would be a lot more fun.
This is the way I envision Easter ideally:
It's a fertility holiday; make it about sex. Imagine St. Patrick's Day but replace all the alcohol and the green with sex. Then throw in some feasts because that's how they originally celebrated, maybe some headbands woven out of flowers (way cooler than ones made out of thorns. You know who you are.) Then have some sort of large dance out in the woods. Maybe add back in some of that drinking, but make it wine.
You see, there are all sorts of fun things to do, and they all lead right back into more sex. We could use a holiday like that. We have plenty of drinking holidays, present holidays, and no-mail-delivery holidays; even smoking pot has its own holiday, but the closest thing we have to a sex holiday is Valentine's Day, and that's only because there's that association between sex and love (unless you count Facebook holidays, in which case there's a sex holiday about once a month). Sex is getting fucked over.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is this. Go out and eat some Easter chocolate. But first, drizzle it all over someone's naked body.
Happy Easter.
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Hahah, I am totally going to take your advice and partake in some chocolate-y fun.
I too, was going to celebrate the holiday with sex. I had planned on waking up my boyfriend with a blowjob, but he got up before me. Ohwell. His loss :P
This is a horrible post.
@sonnigenmai@xanga - I agree 100%, and then some, and then a little more.
Happy Easter to you too.
... o.o
uhyeah. Happy Easter to you too.
Hm, I realize that many Christian holidays have 'pagan' origins, but (aside from the fact that I like to think it's God's way of turning things around) I don't think the meaning of anything is changed. How far back does the pagan celebration go as compared to when passover and the resurrection fall? Maybe it was our attempt to better ourselves and honor what was (or is) considered more important to us. I'm not downplaying your desire to celebrate sex, but do you really need a specific holiday for that? This post was kinda funny to me though. The chocolate part made me chuckle a little.
Ummm. Okay. So you're saying it gets commercialized until the original meaning is lost. And then you start in on a tirade about the way Christians view the holiday. At first, I was all for agreeing. Many holidays are commercialized way too much. But not like how you're saying.
I have not seen ONE commercial, show, movie, or anything about Easter this year (or last year, for that matter) talking about how it's the day Jesus died or anything like that. I've seen people talk about chocolate candies, bunnies, and cool clothes for the kids to wear, but that's it. That's not exactly shouting, "FERTILITY, KIDS! HOPE YOU GET IT!"
So what? They choose to celebrate it differently from you. They choose to celebrate it for reasons different from yours. If you don't like that, don't follow the crowd and do what they do. It's as simple as that.
I agree with sonnigenmai.
Bitching: The new way to celebrate Easter.
Yes, happy Easter to you too.
*sarcasm* Yes, because we all know Jesus chose to die in this time frame to prevent the pagans from having random sex with everyone...come on...you don't need a holiday to have sex. You can do that everyday, so why do you need an excuse to do it??
I like how you think and you're absolutely correct. Life is what should be celebrated; not death. The world needs more fine minds like yours!
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. cry about it? jeez, celebrate it the way you think it should be celebrated...
@Ampbreia@xanga - you say that like people celebrate death like woo yes death??? for most religious people they celebrate death in the sense of going to heaven or "home"
I agree. I admit, it's partially because I'm not a Christian, and therefore I think the idea of Jesus being raised from the dead is more than a little ridiculous. Either way, sex and chocolate is my kind of holiday. :)
@AdriennaAnonymous@xanga - I think that's why my reaction to this was different than most others, too. I'm Jewish by community, but I consider myself agnostic.
@camunderwater@xanga - Oh yes, I know about the ressurection theme. That's the same in the Pagan rendition. The priestests of Ishtar used to celebrate that by dancing with the snakes that had just emerged from hibernation. When snakes hibernate, they look totally dead, so their re-emergence to life again in the spring must have looked nothing short of miraculous to them, the epitomy of Spring. But the resuurection theme, at least as far as the church goes, tends to focus on the cross and the torturous death of Christ. I've seen what they do in passion plays. I've seen what they do in the Philappines. That's not the good part to celebrate as far as I'm concerned. It's dark and disturbing; almost S & M. Life is the important part in both Heaven and Earth. Sex, not suffering, is an epitomy of life celebration. The church shames that. I think that's a shame.
Celebrating a story about a gruesome death and subsequent zombiism strikes me as a little odd.
The pagan holiday sounds more fun.
This. Is. Awesome. Kudos.
good news, u can have ur cake and eat it too! church first, orgy later
i feel dissapointed that datingish would find this ok to feature. must be a slow feature day. though i get the sarcasm (i hope) and you do have your right to say what you believe.
now...where is that bottle of chocolate?
Wow...I really hope this is meant to be a joke.
Wow, I think a great many commenters here need to do a little research on the Christian conception of Easter and Christianity itself, before bashing it and making claims based on generalized misconceptions. The church does not celebrate death and shame life. The point of Easter is the Resurrection, not the death. Resurrection - coming back to LIFE. Even Jesus's death had the purpose of saving all future people from sin, and giving the opportunity for eternal LIFE.
If you aren't Christian, then you don't believe all of this. And that's fine. But you aren't celebrating the Christian Easter, then. If you are celebrating "Easter" then you're celebrating the commercialized Easter of chocolate and bunnies. Feel free to celebrate the Pagan Easter if you want. I don't care. No one's stopping you.
As for the morality plays, lets join this century and stop judging people based on their ancestors. Shall I call you a racist, since you're white and your ancestors probably were? The morality plays enjoyed popularity much longer ago than Americans held slaves.
I don't care if you think my religion is ridiculous. Just stop criticizing it before you really know what it's about.
@Ampbreia@xanga - that's pretty creepy. in that case i agree. i guess im just going off of funeral programs that ive seen like sunset, sunrise, homegoing blah blah blah. all those sort of positive terms to make it seem less morbid.
This sounds like a very sarcasm-dipped post, so I don't think this should be taken seriously...
but if it was intended seriously then I must've missed something in my AP englishes and you really suck at life! lol.
Whatever, if you just wanna have sex on easter and do it your way so be it but don't bash on the way others celebrate it. I hope with all that sex you have you realize you're just gonna encourage others to fuck up and they'll get pregnant or get STD's... way to go.
Honestly, I don't care what you do with easter. But the way easter is celebrated in Christianity has nothing to do with death but with resurrection and life from death.
The only way I can see linking your sex themed easter and the christian easter it that there is life being produced from both. Other than that is sounds like you really just want to get laid.
Um... interesting.
No sex for me right now, I think I'll stick to chocolate bunnies! :D
@sonnigenmai@xanga - I agree.
Jesus is clearly more important than sex. CLEARLY.
@SusanLaverne@xanga - I agree whole heartedly!!!