Easter Eggs

Oh Graces Gran MK2, you really do need to lighten up a bit , being so earnest all the time must get wearing.

We didn't have Easter egg hunts (nor the Easter Bunny) when I was a child. Good Friday was not a day for celebration, we were given our eggs on the Sunday, and we were by no means a religious family.

Well said Ana. Good Friday, for good Christians should surely be a day of quiet contemplation and I really don't believe that all those being given these eggs are all Christians - Christians simply do not own this holiday activity.

I am pretty sure we didn't have chocolate eggs when I was a small child - sugar was still rationed. I don't think this destroyed anyone's beliefs though and surely that is what Christians should be talking about as we approach their most important festival - not chocolate eggs - or have they started worshiping those.

I am sorry for those of you who didn't have chocolate eggs when small , diddums! , but why decry a harmless tradition , no one has started worshipping eggs ( well I might a Hotel Chocolat one!,

You're getting a bit mixed up, Yorkshiregel.
I don't think May or Sentamu have said anything about the Tesco ad. If they had noticed it, I would be very surprised!

Nanna58, I thought pagans do worship eggs.

Nanna58 there is no need to be rude. If you actually read what has been written no one is decrying the tradition, it is simply that the 'Christians' seem to feel they have exclusive ownership.

Oh Graces Gran MK2, you really do need to lighten up a bit , being so earnest all the time must get wearing.

How would you feel if I replied referring to stupidity Nana58. Stop the personal remarks or I will report them.

Don't want to come over all earnest here, but it is a bit unsettling for others, when Christians imply that this country somehow only belongs to them.

That's what I thought, Ilovecheese, (vegan cheese?) but I thought one criticism at a time for Yorkshiregel.

Christians only arrived in the 700s, I thought, with Cuthbert. I am sure someone will put me right.
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY is a bit over the top, considering how long there were people here before Christians.
There was a time when people were being executed for being a different type of Christian, let alone a non-Christian. That's why there were so many Christians.

Well done, shoehorning politics into a thread about Easter eggs - any minute now it'll all be the fault of Brexit...

Just a polite question as I seem to have missed something but where Ana?

Is religion not political?

GGM2........I had to laugh at your post.Saying that you may report a poster for telling you to lighten up and that you are too earnest ! whatever next.

In fact GGM2 I think you have taken a very heavy tone with this whole subject, and giving Christians a lecture on the subject of Easter was never going to go down well.You were totally wrong in your assumption of empty churches at Easter too, in fact they are packed.

Religion is not political.

Have you decreed that I may not be serious Roses, if I feel it is serious. Nobody told me I'm afraid, I do beg your pardon. Unfortunately they didn't tell me you had taken over GN either.

The churches that are left may be packed - the ones that have been sold off for housing are certainly not and guess why they were sold off. I gave the figures for those claiming to be Christian a page or so back and I can assure you the numbers are going down by large percentages.

You gave the figures you had found somewhere but didn't give the source. And your assurances cut no ice without evidence.

Christianity has been political since the First Council of Nicaea in 325. It was undertaken to get control of the different factions among the Christians who were happily believing what they believed but the powers-that-be couldn't control them as much as they wanted to so brought them all together (whether they wanted to or not) and decided what they may believe and what they may not, how they would be policed and what they must do when - none of which was in the Gospels, not even in the bits finally allowed in the New Testament.

Roses, I was not 'giving Christians a lecture' I was talking about Christianity and anyone can know about what is taught and have an opinion on it - it isn't a secret (although it seems to be to some Christians but that is true of any religion) and many who study it will not be Christian - or they may be.

You can always look for yourself Ana and prove me wrong. Without the contrary opinion it could well be that I am right. I may give you the link at some point but I am fed up with people not doing their own research.

I have never seen an actual C of E or RC church 'sold off for housing' although Methodist and Baptist chapels frequently are.
I guess the test is, has anybody seen the Church of England near them being offered up for Sale?I have nearly always lived in villages and have never seen it, and in the towns and cities the churches in the South seem to be enjoying an upsurge in numbers, holding mid week services and lunch time prayer groups.

What have Cadburys done to their chocolate, anyway? The taste is so unpleasant now, that even a dedicated chocoholic like myself can't stomach it!
Never mind what the eggs are called - it's all a bit academic if you can't eat the blighters!

Every poll you look at has a different percentage of Christians in the UK. You've just quoted from one which suits your agenda. Not much point really.

You're not looking Roses. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

This is not the article I quoted the figures - although they are drawing on the figures from the same census - but it is really very interesting: 2067: the end of British Christianity It is quite a long article but this is the beginning:

It’s often said that Britain’s church congregations are shrinking, but that doesn’t come close to expressing the scale of the disaster now facing Christianity in this country. Every ten years the census spells out the situation in detail: between 2001 and 2011 the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million — about 10,000 a week. If that rate of decline continues, the mission of St Augustine to the English, together with that of the Irish saints to the Scots, will come to an end in 2067.

That is the year in which the Christians who have inherited the faith of their British ancestors will become statistically invisible. Parish churches everywhere will have been adapted for secular use, demolished or abandoned.

Worth reading on to see the changes in our society that are taking place whether we call eggs Easter Eggs or not

We have concerts in our local church

Just another glom and doom scenario..... and one man's opinion.Nobody is able to say that sort of stuff with any certainty.
In any case we are still a Christian country with the Queen as the head of the church
So it's still Easter eggs all the way.

Bury your head in the sand by all means Roses. Of course it could be quicker or it could be slower. How long do you think the Queen or King can remain the Defender of the Faith when the country is more diverse and the heir to the throne has said he wants to be Defender of Faiths.

You can have your Easter Eggs; no one at any time has said you can't. The only people who have given orders about what we should call eggs in the spring holiday have been the so called Christians.

Must remind DH to get my Easter Egg soon, before all the best ones go!