Easter! Overrated

[bellalou1234]

Is it me or are people making more of Easter this year?

[PurpleDaisies]

Can you imagine the uproar if someone referred to the Muslims most significant event, Eid, as a fairytale

People do though.

I'm a Christian. Are you really surprised that not everyone believes? It's been this way since the dawn of time.

I don't think what Muslims believe is true. I don't expect non Christians to believe the Easter story either.

[Starlight2345]

We have done nothing exciting..DS went to his martial arts class, tidied up, put washer on, did some Ironing. His friend came round to play..I baked his birthday cake for Tuesday so we are having a normal day here.. Oh he does have an egg that is still on the window sill..

I did watch something about how much more money people spend on shopping over Easter mine is normal. We were away last weekend. DS birthday next week so we need the down time

[bugattiveyron]

For people that like a good fairytale, it's very important, for the majority it's 4 days off, so therefore YABU



I'm as atheist as they come but, really, that's a very offensive statement to make about any religious celebration. I believe in God/Allah/Jehovah etc about as much as I believe that I have fairies at the bottom of my garden but other people have the right to believe in it without it being dismissed as nothing more than a fairytale.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

We've always done Easter lunch and had eggs, turkey for lunch and treated it as a special day.

It seems the religious meaning has completely been forgotten if threads like this are anything to go by.

[aprilsdelight]

Of course they do daisy but that doesn't make it right, but incidentally i haven't seen it said on here, but i've seen many attacking Christianity. But people who say such things are being offensive, they can think what they like, not the same thing?

[PurpleDaisies]

But people who say such things are being offensive, they can think what they like, not the same thing?

I don't think someone saying that they think the easter story is a fairytale is offensive though. It's just someone saying they don't believe the Christian version of events. Obviously I disagree with them but I used to think the same before I became a Christian so I'm not sure how I can take umbrage at it. This is a forum for debate. I don't think being precious about people's different views of the significance of easter is particularly helpful

[EB123]

I love my Easter tree, the spring colours make me happy. We have had one for a few years now and my children love making a new batch of salt dough decorations to hang on it each year.

We don't go crazy just a small egg for each of my boys plus this year I got them some bubbles and a sun catcher to paint. I spent less than £5. We also had a roast today which I don't do often.

[aprilsdelight]

On mumsnet people will get offended by ANYTHING purple. But saying that even though it's a forum you really shouldn't call anyone's religion a fairytale. I know for a fact if i said it about Eid people most certainly would take offence, forum or not.

[Sparklingbrook]

Thinking it's a fairytale is one thing but you don't have to post it on an internet forum. He probably thought he was being amusing.

[Flossimodo]

From my observation over the past year or three, Easter has become much more commercialised than it has ever been. Kids dressed up as daffodils or the easter bunny and some other unrecognisable garments of fancy dress. The TV advertising has certainly stepped up a notch. 'It's starting to feel a bit like Christmas,' as the ad tells us in October , would be just as apt to describe what is happening to Easter.
As a kid I got a chocolate egg on Sunday up to being 12 but that was it. There was no religious observation and we'd never heard of the Easter Bunny. I can vaguely remember doing an Easter Bonnet for school so that must have been a thing. Also at school blowing eggs and painting them. Mother made a roast dinner, but then she did that every Sunday.
We have no small children to entertain now so it's just a usual Sunday here. Chocolate is not so much of a treat for a lot of children nowadays. I wasn't around for war rationing of sweets but it sure as hell felt like it in the 60s and 70s. Now there's big bags of mini choc bars hanging round in kitchen cupboards. We would have found and devoured them and made ourselves sick. Sorry folks. More a trip down memory lane than a post.

[CheeseCakeSunflowers]

For people that like a good fairytale, it's very important, for the majority it's 4 days off, so therefore YABU
My answer to this is read Mathew 5:11

[Marmalade85]

I noticed Easter tat in the supermarkets straight after xmas, over 3 months ago!

[raspberrysuicide]

Yes and still people were frantically trying to buy Easter eggs on Easter Saturday at 6pm!