I think if they can find the part in the bible where Jesus, before ascending to Heaven on the third day, hides dyed eggs in the shrubbery, then they should get to call them Easter eggs. But if they can't, they should be made to admit that eggs are a pagan fertility symbol of spring, along with fucking bunnies and may poles. Right?
I think this is probably safely in the realm of overly-PC bullshit.
But with the relentless crap conservative Christians have been pulling lately from defunding Planned Parenthood to canceling AIDS research to trying to reinstate DADT, I say let 'em have it. It's not like it really matters anyways.
@2 But then they'd still be promoting the pagan religion of whoever the fuck, Canuck. Personally I'm aghast that the policy forbids the teaching of science (since the teaching of science inherently disparages religious belief, it just can't be helped).
Hmmm, true, OuterCow...I was just thinking generalized sperm and egg worship, but those gods have a way of making it all about them...and heh, the science thingy--good one! Hopefully they won't notice...
I demand the U.S. House of Representatives halt budget talks and shut down federal government to pass an emergency resolution that the name Easter Eggs can only be changed to Freedom Eggs. Or Ronald Reagan Memorial Eggs.
Why not "Easter eggs"? We can acknowledge that some of what are now our secular traditions came from religious traditions without necessarily "promoting" anything. I'm an atheist, but I celebrate Easter by decorating eggs, and I celebrate Christmas by giving my friends gifts. What's the big fucking deal?
It's silly, but if it irritates the Christians that get irritated by things like this, I'm all for it. Bring on the spring spheres, I'll cook up a big spring ham on the after next Saturday.
Is this some kind of Revenge of Scientism for the people getting burned at stakes for saying the planets moved ellipses around the sun instead of them moving around the Earth in perfect Celestial Spheres?
If the person who came up with the term "spring spheres" was serious, they deserve the wrath of these fundie loons, misguided though it may be.
On the other hand, if they did it as some kind of commentary on PC absurdity vs religious absurdity and managed to pass it off as if they were serious, then they deserve our quiet admiration.
I thought this was a two-weeks-late April fools post for a second. Spring Spheres - that's hilarious. What's do Easter eggs have to do with the public school system anyway?
Yes, time lord, the school board does have better things to do. But in government, when a bunch of idiots get worked up over somdthing inane, you have to drop whatever important, productive thing you are doing and reply to them, lest you be accused of being "unresponsive".
I didn't read every comment but isn't anyone outraged that the school system can't teach geometry? An egg is approximately spherical but it is not a sphere. They should've gone all the way and called them Spring Prolate Ellipsoids.
That aside, they sound like Berkeley and they don't deserve to sound like Berkeley.
Wait, Easter Eggs are laid by a bunny? I thought that the Jesus ghost laid them after he emerged from the cave. Am I completely confused, or did Jesus emerge from the cave as a bunny, and not a ghost?
And I'm just remembering this funny story by Wade Rouse about the way his father hid the family Easter eggs...thought just tucking them into the bushes was too easy, so he buried them in the yard. Cracks me up.
There's a commercial right now, for I don't remember what, in which the dad paints the eggs in camouflage colors, and sits back while all the children scream with frustration. When his daughter finally finds one he is quite put out.
Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon following the first day of spring. It involves rabbits and eggs. But it has nothing to do with vernal fertility rites, so Stop Saying That!
Unbeknown to my parents my brother got up before the rest of us, found ALL the Easter eggs, and peeled them ALL open to see if they were chocolate. Disappointed, he threw the hard boiled refuse over the fence into our nieghbors yard. Then when we got up and gathered with all our cousins to search the yard, fruitlessly, found nothing, he finally told us:
"Those was just fucking regular shitty eggs. This whole thing is a scam."
As an agnostic dad of a Seattle Public School second grader I can tell you:
A) They've never done any Easter crap at my kid's school.
B) If they did, I'd be delighted if they left out the word "Easter."
C) "Jessica", the radio show she called, and the hack who wrote it up and called it news ought to all be tarred, feathered, and rode out of town on a rail, then that rail should be placed on a boat bound for Uganda. Then it should be nuked from orbit, because that is the only way to be safe.
Fuck me, this is all so stupid.
But with the relentless crap conservative Christians have been pulling lately from defunding Planned Parenthood to canceling AIDS research to trying to reinstate DADT, I say let 'em have it. It's not like it really matters anyways.
I'm sending demons through these tubes to punish you for that.
http://www.easterdecorations.zlinf.com/w…
Easter humour:
http://www.jasonchatfield.com/blog/image…
Not funny at all:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9G…
That is all.
Is this some kind of Revenge of Scientism for the people getting burned at stakes for saying the planets moved ellipses around the sun instead of them moving around the Earth in perfect Celestial Spheres?
Typical...
Christians, get ova it.
Still, anything that pisses off the Krazy Kristians is a-okay in my book.
@ 19 Yes
@ 25 Love the links
@ 9 FTW
My second thought was that if it pisses off the fundies, then all the better. "Spring Spheres" it is!
But yeah, if it pisses off the Christian Taliban, bring it on.
On the other hand, if they did it as some kind of commentary on PC absurdity vs religious absurdity and managed to pass it off as if they were serious, then they deserve our quiet admiration.
Doesn't our school board have more pressing issues to deal with?
That aside, they sound like Berkeley and they don't deserve to sound like Berkeley.
Easter is the name of the pagan goddess of spring, who FYI, was born of a virgin birth.
And I'm just remembering this funny story by Wade Rouse about the way his father hid the family Easter eggs...thought just tucking them into the bushes was too easy, so he buried them in the yard. Cracks me up.
but please carry on.
Unbeknown to my parents my brother got up before the rest of us, found ALL the Easter eggs, and peeled them ALL open to see if they were chocolate. Disappointed, he threw the hard boiled refuse over the fence into our nieghbors yard. Then when we got up and gathered with all our cousins to search the yard, fruitlessly, found nothing, he finally told us:
"Those was just fucking regular shitty eggs. This whole thing is a scam."
A) They've never done any Easter crap at my kid's school.
B) If they did, I'd be delighted if they left out the word "Easter."
C) "Jessica", the radio show she called, and the hack who wrote it up and called it news ought to all be tarred, feathered, and rode out of town on a rail, then that rail should be placed on a boat bound for Uganda. Then it should be nuked from orbit, because that is the only way to be safe.