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Apr 9, 2009 | 09:22 AM

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BetterBeth88

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Apr 9, 2009 | 09:25 AM

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BetterBeth88

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On a personal note I don't think Big Poppa is "anti-bunny"- I'm sure he (like most men) don't mind the Playboy variety...lol

Apr 9, 2009 | 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa Pump

Stupid Easter Bunny and his false idolhood really gets my goat!

Please people, if you are gonna celebrate Easter lose the bunny and eggs and make it about what it's about.

With that said, I will be heading to church in the morning and probably having a picnic, etc.

Have fun.

Not to be anti-Christian, because I'm not...

However, if you look at the origins of the date that Easter is celebrated on, it corresponds to the spring planting festivals of Pagan religions. The rabbit represented fertility and plenty as we all know that they reproduce at a tremendous rate. Eggs also represent fertility for obvious reasons. Although I'm not sure how that morphed into an egg toting rabbit....

For the record, Christmas is also celebrated during the date of the Pagan Roman Saturnalia festival.

These dates were adopted by the Christian church during the time of the Roman empire when the vote came about as to which books to include in the Holy Bible. The Roman Emperor at the time, who was a recent convert to Christianity, figured that they would get more converts from the multi-diety Pagan religions that were celebrated in the Empire at the time if Christianity had holidays at similar times in order to say, "See... We're not really that different. We just worship one God instead of many."

With that being said, Happy Easter to everyone.

Apr 9, 2009 | 03:06 PM

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Big Poppa Pump

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Sorry for causing any trouble.

Last edited by Big Poppa Pump; Apr 9, 2009 at 07:44 PM.

Apr 9, 2009 | 05:10 PM

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Why do you care so much how other people celebrate a holiday? What should really matter is how you celebrate, and what the holiday means to you and your family. Who cares what everyone else does? Just my .02

HAPPY EASTER!

Apr 9, 2009 | 05:46 PM

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donna.1965

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How about we stop hijacking a ride thread and take our debate to the social group.

Apr 9, 2009 | 06:34 PM

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2of2

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I don't think anyone has discussed a ride since the first post. So.. is it really hijacking?
Wouldn't that be sort of like hijacking a bus that wasn't running?