AIBU for being annoyed that the only Easter egg hunts on over Easter...

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are when people that celebrate Easter will be in church.

Kew Gardens always hold their Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday and by the time we get there after church all the eggs are gone.

This year I thought I would look for another Easter egg hunt and found that most are on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, in the morning when everyone that see Easter as a religious holiday will be in church.

I know that Easter isn't about the eggs but it would be nice to take part in the fun.

I get it mickey, christmas is for turkeys isn't it!!
Cos they enjoy being eaten.......

I'm confused at who/what you think Christmas is for.

Do please elaborate (apologies for silly sarcastic joke about turkeys)

Do I really need to elaborate on that? So many reasons you can choose from, such as the fact that christians only highjacked a long standing midwinter festival and then told everyone it was theirs and only theirs, like a toddler snatching a toy? Or that christmas is by far more a cultural holiday now than religious, with churchgoers being in the significant minority of those who celebrate it?

Same as your easter egg hunts, the symbolism of eggs in springtime is not christian based, massively pre-dating it. Nothing christian about eggs and bunnies.

Christmas = Christ. Mass

Micky could you take your aggressive atheism elsewhere please?

Its not aggressive and why would I do that? It's certainly no more aggressive than holiday hogging.

Asserting that christmas is for christians is not only rude and divisive, its also clearly not supported by actual facts though I suppose if you're aggressively religious you don't need actual facts

Now now, are we not all united under one god?

CADBURYS

Christmas is named so after Nicholas Christmas...aka - Santa :) Easter is about bunnies to help Pets at homes sales, and birthdays were invented by clintons, (before that we had no birthdays at all ever)

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Aren't Easter Egg hunts what heathens do to show how badly they misunderstand the true meaning of Easter?

You know the whole egg thing is based on a pagan festival?

Most of the egg hunts I have seen organised at these big places are clue trails that you "claim" an egg at the end... so there will be some still in the afternoon. And national trust do them all weekend, I believe.

Our local National Trust property is running Easter egg hunts on the Monday as well.

Can we not turn this post into one of those annoying conversations about religion that I'm forced to have in the pub.

MickyDodge I did put in the op ... I know that Easter isn't about the eggs but it would be nice to take part in the fun. to stop people from stating that Easter has nothing to do with eggs.

And you are beginning to sound a little bit aggressive don't shot the messenger

This is in AIBU, remember?

In our family the Easter bunny brings eggs and hides them in the garden (or the house if its wet) and has done since the late '70s. So I don't think egg hunts are either particulaly new or American.

Just responding to an unreasonable post from someone else, you carry on, nothing to see here folks.

The simple fact is Christs mass is when christians celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Easter is when Christians celebrate his death and resurrection.

Most christians know the historical origins and reasons for 'stealing' a winter and spring festival from the romans etc but that is in 'the past'.
The pagan origins of a winter festival we now call Christmas really doesnt bother me personally. - (because Im not celebrating it for pagan reasons.)
When people try to suggest Christmas/Easter isnt primarily about Jesus, I get 'bothered'

If I personally was pagan/aethist/etc I would find another festival to celebrate without constantly trying to berrate christians for celebrating Easter and Christmas - Winterval anyone?

Now where is my chocolate stash.........?

Sorry facebookhurtsmybrain for engaging with the stirring.........

Your post was no less unreasonable micky imho

Nobody is berating anyone for celebrating anything, I'm very happy for christains to celebrate christmas and easter in anyway they like. However when they try to tell the rest of us that its their holiday and we are all doing it wrong, it grates a little.
My Christmas is not at all about your Jesus, and you have no right at all to tell me that it should be.
Christian domination of now mainly secular festivals is also "in the past", so maybe you should also get over it?

Now, do you want to stop derailing OP's thread, she's trying to talk about pagan rituals Egg hunts.

Egg hunts - if you look at the National Trust website, they list trails (rather than hunts, as you get your egg after completing the trail of clues - prevents people from nicking the eggs) and some of these trails are on days other than Sunday, and the one we tend to do is on from 1030ish to 4pm, so all day effectively.

I think English Heritage may have some trails, and there may be others listed online that are close to you that you can take a look at.

Can I just say I agree with Micky.

DartsAgain Thanks

LadyBeagleEyes quick in quick out... like your style.

OP - this is not a plot against the pious, it is a practicality.

Egg hunts have to happen first thing in the moring so that the eggs can be hidden before the public come in, and if they hide the eggs before the place opens and then hold the hunt at 2pm, the public will have found and scoffed the eggs anyway.

The only solution is to persuade your church to have the services at a more reasonable time. In the afternoon, say, once you have all enjoyed the spirit of easter over a good haul of chocolate eggs.

CalmingMiranda good point, never thought of that. I have to run that whole holding the service later past my vicar... I'm sure he'll love that

OP, is there a later service that you could attend? An evening one?

Thanks for the Streatham Commom reminder notcitrus

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Sunnywithachanceofshowers not at my church.

I've had some really go suggestions on here. Thanks.

Personally I love the idea of a later service, some churches start at sunrise on Easter Day.
I'll ask my vicar when he comes home