Do you celebrate Easter?

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: Do you celebrate Easter?

[Deep13]

1. We celebrate Pope Snowball I.

He's also the real Easter bunny, just as Jesus intended it.

[Beer Snob-50]

2. I celebrate with my wifes family

they tend to not be religious at all so it is just an opportunity to get together and drink beer all afternoon and eat some good ham.

[TZ]

3. Okay my family is a little weird but

we always do our "passover seder" on Easter Sunday (cause we are too busy during the week). Note that I put seder in quotations because its not exactly the most traditional...And its been known that a few dyed eggs find their way onto the dinner menu..plus some chocolate bunnies and peeps and jellybeans are consumed....

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. As long as you remember the Kosher Coke

That's the important part!

[Symarip]

4. No offense to those who believe

But I think God is Santa Claus for adults. I put no stock into Easter as a meaningful day other than a nice Spring outing with a ham or turkey on the table. In the past, I would have dinner with my mom and brother, but now I live on the wrong coast and doing so makes family gatherings a little harder. Even if I had stayed in So Cal, my mom just recently moved back to the EU.

I hope everyone has a good Easter, regardless.

[Deep13]

9. Same here.

I was only kidding about Pope Snowball, although that would be so cool.

[Symarip]

10. Look at the pope hat

It's obviously not designed for a human head.

[tigereye]

16. I think belief in God is a bit more complex than a developmental fantasy

for young children... :shrug:

[Heidi]

5. Before we adopted Ginger, we didn't. Now I spend the Saturday before Easter dyeing

mice.*


*Kidding, kidding.

[Bertha Venation]

6. Live Peeps?

:hi: :loveya:

[Heidi]

7. Anything for the boy, ya know.

:rofl:

Happy Friday, sweets! :hug: :loveya:

:*

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I do the whole kit and kaboodle - worship in the morning, dinner with friends or family

depending on who's around.

[Shell Beau]

11. I am a Christian, so this is a big holiday for me.

:)

We will go to church as usual and then do a big lunch with the family.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I like to eat chocolate, if that counts.

[Arugula Latte]

13. We celebrate what I consider the true, ancient meaning of Easter, the rebirth of the land in Spring

So, in that context, the focus on eggs, lambs and bunnies makes a lot of sense. Just like we do the trappings of Xmas for our kids -- tree, presents, candy -- we do the trappings of Easter 'cuz they're fun -- dying eggs, egg hunts, baskets, chocolate. I like my holidays secular and based on nature -- Xmas is a solstice thing to me, and Easter is an equinox thing to me. Halloween (my favorite holiday hands down) is pure fun, and a celebration of Fall's joys.

That said, our friends are having what they're calling an Easter celebration, and we're bringing asparagus w/ smoked salmon as our contribution to the gathering.

[tigereye]

18. rebirth seems to be a good and time-honored cultural concept to celebrate

:thumbsup:

[siligut]

15. My husband loves tradition. Me? Not at all.

I am a blasphemer of the traditional interpretations of god, he just doesn’t say anything. I do celebrate spring and the symbolic renewal. I make the big dinner for him and a bachelor friend of ours, and I put a basket of goodies together. My DH starts talking about the menu days in advance.

[Akoto]

17. We celebrate the candy-oriented part of it. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Yes.

Like Christmas, my celebration of Easter had a lot of Ukrainian tradition in it. That meant kielbasa, "svewequle" (phonetic)--horseradish mixed with sweet picked beets, and best of all....babka! Love me some babka.

Growing up, my parents would take me the 3 hour vigil mass, but I think the regular 1 hour mass will do just fine, thank you very much.

[Marrah_G]

20. I celebrate Ostara a few weeks earlier and then have dinner with my catholic family members

Just because I'm Wiccan doesn't mean I will turn down a yummy feast with family !

[LanternWaste]

21. No offense to anyone here, but...

No offense to anyone here, but... yes. Every year. Church, then fellowship, then bruncheon. Pretty fun stuff, hurts no one.

[Shell Beau]

24. Why should anyone get offended by that?

[LanternWaste]

26. Subtle joke...

Subtle joke... no, not even subtle. A personal joke that probably makes no sense to anyone other than me :P

[Shell Beau]

27. Oh! I was thinking "damn, people get offended by that now?"

;)

[cherish44]

22. We get together but it's not a religious thing

Was raised Cathoics and as kids we all got brand spanking new Easter clothes and went to church and all that. We don't do the church thing (well my mom might still go) but we dye eggs, make easter baskets and have a really nice meal on Easter still. Yeah all three of us rejected the Catholic religion when we were old enough to make up our own minds. My brother is an atheist, I'm an agnostic and my sister is a "spiritual but not religious" type.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. It's a major church feast, and as a member of a cathedral choir,

the busiest time of the year. My choir sang Thursday night for Maundy Thursday, and will sing tonight for Good Friday, Saturday night for the Easter Vigil, and, of course, Sunday morning, but only at one service.

So the score is three anthems down, five more to go. :-)

[Shell Beau]

25. I think this week is a fun time to belong to a church!!

Even though it is a week of reflection.

[MilesColtrane]

28. I try to stay up all night with my Mossberg...

...hoping to catch the Easter Bunny delivering the chocolate covered ham.

Hasn't happened yet, but when it does, there's gonna be some good eatin'.

[Mutley]

29. If the family is doing something, I'll join in.

Otherwise, I'm really not into it. I'm mad that I have off work on Sunday. No double time for me. x(