To think it isn't 'choccy egg day'

[lisaIambe]

Overheard in supermarket this morning. Mum happily telling moaning DC that if they didn't stop the choccy egg bunny won't bring them anything for choccy egg day.

I know not everyone is religious. But given the name 'Easter' isn't exactly loaded with religious connotations, AIBU to think renaming Easter 'choccy egg day' is just ridiculous?

Also,,the day after is "less tha quarter price on some really good choc just because it's a funny shape" day, which is good too.

I think kids generally struggle with understanding Easter as we shy away from the story but my DS came home from primary proudly declaring he knew all about the Easter Bunny killing Jesus when he was about 6!

Took a while to clarify that for him!

elQuinto quite. We live abroad in a Catholic area where there are very graphic crusifixes in the church the notionally secular state school and Kindergarten take them to without consulting parents... One of my kids was properly upset by them. Another came home and told me Jesus was killed with nails and came back as a zombie my eldest quickly corrected him - it's just in those days they didn't check properly that people were dead...

People still get crucified regularly in some countries of course, for pretty much the same crime of criticising undemocratic / unjust regiemes fairly commonly...

Have a chocolate egg...

YANBU. I'm not religious but that's gross. Might as well call Christmas 'Presents Day'.

And 'choccy egg day' is pretty much the worst thing anyone's ever said anyway.

I tried to explain to DD2 (aged 11) that eggs signify the rolling away of the rock from the cave.

She interrupted me mid sentence, completed the story for me and muttered 'yes I know!'.

Choccy is s very annoying word but apart from that YABU

Pirate, glad you said that, I didn't know.

Pig, well yes, we could call it that....to me it's just 25 Dec but atheist friends also like to fuss over family time and presents.

DH presented me with a chocolate egg yesterday with the words "Happy Jesus Died Day"

At my Catholic school, they told us in Kindergarten that Jesus wasn't in fact nailed through his hands as we see in depictions, but nailed through his wrists because the nails would've torn straight through his hands.

They obv didn't care if kids struggled to understand Easter.

which people often receive a choccy egg grin and hopefully a roasty woasty din dins if you're lucky.

stocking full of shite day

Nearly spat out my choccy woccy eggs with these!

That claim that eggs symbolise rocks has always sounded like a massive stretch to me - the egg symbolises new life in spring and was part of the pre-existing festival, and someone at some point was clearly grasping for some way to claim eggs as part of the Christian Easter story, it's such a weak parallel... Why not just say eggs symbolise new life/ new beginnings, that's surely workable for Christians and non Christians alike...

Mind you where we live far more people are active church goers but the chocolate is mainly rabbit shapes, you get mini eggs but the large hollow chocolate is almost all rabbits...

Cracking floggingmolly . I may rename it in our house - thanks for the tip-off.

Happy Jesus Died Day?

Yabu (and what business is it of yours) remember, not everyone is a Christian.
Easter is a Christian festival, not a Jewish, Buddhist or Islamic one.

Choccy egg day sounds better than Jewish Zombie day anyway.

Eggs are symbols of fertility, and most religions appropriated the changing seasons for their festivals.

This is the time of the spring festival for most religions.

Easter and its symbolism are only relavent to those who practice Christian faiths.
The rest of us can call it whatever we like without your permission or approval.

Superbeagle

F**king hell

This is why I care, to those asking. Because I can always rely on mumsnet to come out with some corkers in response

Stocking full of shite day and CofCommericalism might be my favourites so far

Sounds like something Michael McIntyre would come out with.

big stocking full of shite day is hilarious btw

I always thought the egg symbolised new life which we as Christians celebrate Jesus giving us new life.
I know the Romans adopted local pagan festivals when they conquered us back in history, then when the Romans converted to Christianity they adapted the festivals again.
I don't mind 'choccy egg day' people can call it what they prefer and celebrate it fior whatever reason they prefer. I do think it's good if people are aware of what Christians believe (not in a nasty its all stupid fairy tale flying spaghetti sky pixie way) but in an informed tolerant way.

No floggingmolly, He rose from the dead on Easter Sunday!

My MIL referred to it as 'choc choc day'. Cannot stand it.

Not religious, but we're not going to miss out on the eggs which had nothing to do with Jesus/Christianity anyway.

For Christians, Easter eggs are a symbol of the resurrection of Christ. The shell represents the tomb, and cracking it open represents the resurrection and new life.

These debates seem to have been everywhere this season and it's exhausting.

I don't think it's too unreasonable to think we can have a time of year called Easter, that for Christians represents a religious event, and for Atheists and other faiths represents a nice time when we get a couple of extra days off and overeat.

As long as the way you celebrate it doesn't prevent anybody else from doing it their way, I say each to their own!

I mean I could live with egg day. I still don't see the issue with calling it Easter Sunday, the word 'Easter' has no real religious connections. But choccy is just... urgh.

ohmygodyouguys said she got an egg with "Happy Jesus Died Day" on it. I'm assuming this was an unfunny joke?