AIBU to think that Easter is very English?

[SodaStreamy]

It is though isn't it?

England shuts down for 4 days .....Scotland doesn't

Why change the tv schedule .....I wanted to watch this monring but it's off 'for Easter'

I went to England 8 year ago on Easter Sunday and it was shut! England was shut not a single shop open

[infamouspoo]

Jesus, being jewish, wouldnt have eaten bread at passover. It would have been unleaveved matzoh.

[Subjecttosurvey]

I don't know talkinpeace; that's why I asked them upthread.

[JollyYellowGiant]

In Aberdeen City and Shire, the school spring break is the first two weeks in April every year. This means than they do not necessarily coincide with Easter. Spring school holidays in Scotland are therefore not ALWAYS over Easter as someone stated. The local authorities choose their own term dates, in service days and local holidays.

[Talkinpeace]

Poocatcherchampion
at 12.38 you posted
we are christians but don't celebrate Easter. I think many Christians don't.
Could you elaborate?
The only Christians I'm aware of who do NOT celebrate Easter are Quakers (who are not big on festivals of any sort) and Jehovah's (ditto)
But surely as a Christian you are aware that they are very unusual in that.

[Bue]

I am genuinely staggered by the number of people who don't seem to understand Easter

But there are certainly Christians (or Christian offshoots) who don't really "do" Easter. Some Quakers see themselves as Christian, and I'm pretty sure the Unitarian Universalists don't believe in the Resurrection.

[CrystalQueen]

Isn't it more that Bank Holidays are not a big deal in Scotland? I am biased in that I work somewhere where they are ignored (university - just all lumped into our annual leave) but I don't ever really remember my dad having the day off, or things being shut. The mass travel for a bank holiday weekend is definitely an English thing (sorry don't know about Wales).

[Talkinpeace]

Bue
Some Quakers see themselves as Christian
Sorry? Are there Quakers who do NOT regard themselves as Christian?

[IThinkOfHappyWhenIThinkOfYou]

communion bread is unleavened bread

[LynetteScavo]

I've never met a Quaker who didn't "do" Easter.

They may not do it quite like Catholics, but Easter is still celebrated by Quakers, IME.

[SauvignonBlanche]

So is Easter Catholic?
One of the more bizarre questions I've seen on MN. [buhmm]
I suggest you revise your Scottish history OP, maybe start with John Knox?

[Muser]

Add message | Report | Message poster Talkinpeace Fri 29-Mar-13 15:57:49
Bue
Some Quakers see themselves as Christian
Sorry? Are there Quakers who do NOT regard themselves as Christian?

Yes, there are. You don't have to believe in a Christian god, or god at all, to be a Quaker. www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-beliefs

[Muser]

It would help if I remembered to click the convert links box! www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-beliefs

[PollyEthelEileen]

Easter Monday is a secular holiday.

They have Good Friday off in Scotland, surely?

[scottishtablet]

We are in Scotland and do have Good Friday off, I can never, ever remember schools etc being open on GF.

[Talkinpeace]

Muser
My father's family are Quakers. I used to go to meeting when I was visiting him.
I was always taught that it was a very mellow and inclusive form of Christianity.

[Talkinpeace]

scottishtablet
as per the link up thread, every school in Angus is open today.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Was Jesus English then? Surely he was Jewish.
I think anyone who is a Christian is glad that shops and other distractions are closed.
Maybe not so much fun for none believers, but then it isn't Easter for them, what do atheists call Easter, I have often wondered this.

[scottishtablet]

I stand corrected then!

[Talkinpeace]

morethanpotatoprints
We call it Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. And my kids LOVE chocolate chickens from Lidl.

[honeytea]

I am in Sweden and they celebrate Easter much more than the UK, eaver home has twigs with feathers and decorations on and the kids dress up as easter witches and go around asking for sweets (like trick or treat-ing)

The govenrment run alcohol shops are shut till tuesday which is a bugger because we are having dinner guests on sunday and I forgot to buy any wine Other shops are open but then they are open on Christmas day too.

[Muser]

My mum's a Quaker Talkinpeace and has always taught me it's mostly Christian but not exclusive and it's not really polite to ask other Quakers! She's a more recent, umm, convert? Not the right word but it will do. But maybe they are focusing more on publicising the "not necessarily Christian" angle more these days? I certainly know Quakers through her who would not identify as Christian.

[LadyBeaEGGleEyes]

Well good for them morethan, and just because they're Christian everybody else should be inconvenienced.
Atheists call Easter um Easter, and Christmas Christmas, strangely enough.
What do you suggest it's called?

[Talkinpeace]

Muser
Have you been to a meeting with her? I used to love it. My grandfather was one of the elders and he used to have wonderfully poetic thoughts. My dad never spoke and pretty much stopped going once my grandfather died.
Even once I came out as an atheist, I could tolerate meeting as its meditation for me.

[elQuintoConyo]

Come to Spain: they're all wearing their KKK outfits in rainbow colours and walking through town barefoot.
Everything's shut.