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Eggstraordinary Easter

Distressing, but at least the boy didn't see the corpse.

Easter egg hunt horror as mother finds dead body under deck of house
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 71264.html

Woman was searching for eggs with her three-year-old son when she made the grim discovery

A family’s Easter egg hunt took a dark twist this week when a mother searching for chocolate with her three-year-old son found a dead body lying under the deck of her house.

Tara Hanouskova was in the garden with her son helping him look for eggs when she noticed a pair of feet wearing tennis shoes in the dark of the tight space under her raised patio area.

Prior to the discovery Ms Hanouskova had been smelling a terrible odour that had been getting progressively worse over the past week, she told The Knoxville News Sentinel.

Police later recovered the body, which was of a fully clothed middle-aged man who is believed to have laid there dead for around two weeks. The death is not being treated as suspicious

“I really don't even know how he got there,” Ms Hanouskova said. There was no evidence that the man had set up a camp in the space and he is yet to be identified.

Luckily, Ms Hanouskova managed to get her son inside the house in Knoxville, Tennessee before he saw anything.

An autopsy carried out on the man found that had a medical conditioned which likely resulted in his death, a Knoxville Police Department news release said.
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England has become embroiled in a row with chocolate giant Cadbury and the National Trust over an Easter egg hunt.

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu accused the chocolate giant of “spitting on the grave” of its religious founder by removing references to Christianity’s most sacred festival from the spring event it runs nationwide with the conservation charity.

Church leaders criticised the National Trust for “airbrushing” Christianity out of its chocolate egg hunt, after a rebrand led to the renaming of the “Easter Egg Trail” as the “Great British Egg Hunt”.

Cadbury, which was founded by Quaker John Cadbury in 1824, told the Telegraph “we invite people from all faiths and none to enjoy our seasonal treats”.

The National Trust said that suggestions it was downplaying the significance of Easter were “nonsense”. ...

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offb...-on-the-grave-of-cadbury-archbishop-1.3036031

FFS! Easter Eggs have nothing to do with Christianity.

All this fuss over a Christianised version of a fertility festival based around a pagan dawn goddess called Ēostre.

Get your @atheistie greeting cards here …
https://www.redbubble.com/people/atheistireland/works/20434479-ostre-card?p=greeting-card&card_size=5x7.5…

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How to flog stuff at Easter. Great taste here. What interests me; biblically, one of the two thieves crucifed alongside Jesus was utterly unrepentent and presumably went to Hell or something. does this logically mean that one-third of the goods displayed here are Satanically tainted and anyone ill-advised enough to buy them will therefore, on first taste, become possessed by demons and do the whole head-turning-through-360˚ thing and spew copious quantitites of green pea soup/ (or something). Even better advertising for coca-cola if so....
 
Why did Theresa May scramble to comment on the National Trust Easter Egg row?
The Prime Minister was quick to comment on this, but slow to respond to the "Muslim Ban". Was personal antipathy involved?
by STEPHEN BUSH

Theresa May has been accused of acting out of “revenge” after she condemned the National Trust and Cadbury for dropping the word “Easter” from this year’s Easter Egg Hunt.

May described the move as “absolutely ridiculous”, and an affront to a “very important festival” for Christians worldwide. But neither Cadbury nor the National Trust have dropped the word “Easter” from the Easter Egg Hunt.

Cadbury’s website promoting the occasion features the word Easter 14 times and their press release announcing this year’s quest for chocolate features the E-word seven times. They even have a website promoting it with the word “Easter” in the address. As for the National Trust, their announcement of the hunt features the word Easter a further seven times.

May’s rushed statement is in contrast to her usual methodical approach, which is to marshal the facts and then deliver a statement. May took more than 24 hours to comment on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and denied journalists a response three times at her press conference. But she commented in a little over an hour on the Cadbury affair.

Civil servants and former special advisers believe that May’s swift response is due to her longstanding antipathy to Helen Ghosh, with whom she clashed when Ghosh was permanent secretary at the Home Office and May was Home Secretary. (Ghosh left the Home Office in 2012.) Civil servants also believe that another Helen, Helen Bower-Easton - who was Downing Street’s official spokesperson under David Cameron and May - was ostracised by May's team due to her perceived closeness to Cameron. (Bower-Easton has since left to head up communications at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.) ...

http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...cramble-comment-national-trust-easter-egg-row
 
Hmm. The move should be to get Cadburys' to drop the word "chocolate" from its brand description and replace it with "Americanised vaguely chocolate flavoured substance leaving a lingering aftertaste reminiscent of vomit". Better still, delete the word "Cadburys" entirely and replace all instances with "Hersheys", the prefix "utterly vile crap" being optional...
 
...Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu accused the chocolate giant of “spitting on the grave” of its religious founder by removing references to Christianity’s most sacred festival from the spring event it runs nationwide with the conservation charity...
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As has been pointed out several times today, the point is a bit moot, because Quakers don't really do Easter.

This is all just more than a bit bloody stupid - another example of the 'political correctness gone mad...gone mad' thing I've noted elsewhere. But it's also a bit spooky: I mean, there's nothing to see here...absolutely fuck-all, but even Theresa May - who I've always thought had a bit more nous - has tripped over herself to go all Katie Hopkins on the nonsense.

And, by the way - my local Indian restaurant (Muslim owner and staff) is closing for a few days for refurbishment. But it's okay, the sign in the window announcing the closure ends with a reassuring: WE WILL BE OPEN FOR EASTER!!!

While people on both sides of the spectrum are making stuff up to get red in the face about, grown-up's are just getting on with shit. Ferfucksake.
 
If it's all made up anyway, because the NT does mention Easter on its website, several times, as does Cadbury, where has this come from? I hate to say "fake news", but why are so many determined to not only believe but evangelise about a load of lies? If it's simple laziness, lack of checking, why is it so convincing to the Easter obsessives? Is it connected to the Mandela Effect? Considering all that's going on in the world, why is this so important?
 
Having been able to look at a bigger picture of the Calvary made from soft drinks packages, I now realise it's only coca-cola at the base: the crosses are built out of cases of something called Pibbs, which i only know from that wonderfully weird and heavily-satirical cartoon show American Dad! (in its way quite Fortean, as the Smiths are hiding a Roswell-ish alien in the attic who has his own preferential reasons for doing anal probing to abductees.) Apparently the hero, CIA agent Stan Smith, has an addiction to the stuff. What would Seth McFarlane do with this sales display- which is right out of AD...

 
GNC said:
Considering all that's going on in the world, why is this so important?
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IMO, It's important, just not for the reason it's being made out to be. Take a look at the alleged American "war on Christmas" and you might see what I mean. It's nonsense, of course, but not for those who might be working it into something more nasty and divisive than it might seem on the surface.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/us/war-on-christmas-controversy.html?_r=0

I know the UK has its share of divisiveness and it's been getting worse, but take a lesson from the US. This kind of thing is symbolic. It all seems silly until suddenly it's a belief system that's entrenched with millions of people. Hopefully the UK has the good sense to fight it off while there's time.
 
I meant more to wonder why trivia that wasn't even true was important now when the UK was facing deeper challenges, but of course you're right, Ulalume, these things have a habit of snowballing and before you know it misguided (to put it mildly) citizens are building their whole belief systems on lies that present themselves in a victim narrative that doesn't even exist, and actual victims' experiences are cheapened as a result.

The outrage bandwagons are getting to be runaway trains. Maybe we could have an international nobody takes needless offence day, except that would only outrage those addicted to their own anger further.
 
So we're still a bit hazy on Jesus' death day then? Funny how we all get 25th December off as that's a fact but it's roughly some weekend when the chocolate rabbits are laying eggs when we get another few days off work later on. Did these people not take notes?
 
jimv1 said:
So we're still a bit hazy on Jesus' death day then?
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Try cornering a devout Christian, get them to sit on their hands (so as to keep their ears uncovered) and then.....

Ask them to explain just exactly how the supposed resurrection of Christ ties-in with Easter Day being the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (ie the full moon) that falls on or after 21 March, being the day of the vernal equinox.

Then ask them if this is an inarguable chronological sequence, or not: the beginning of the universe; the existence of our planetary galaxy and solar system; the emergence of life, including human sentience; pagan worship of of sun/stars/planets and 'gods'; birth/life/death/resurrection of a historical character now known as Jesus; the present day.

Ask them how the birth / death / resurrection of Christ can not be viewed as being derivative allegorical fables that are mere literary adaptations of eternal astronomical cycles and previous pagan calendrical observances.

They will of course try to reject this. As being the words and work of the Devil, Lucifer, the light-bringer. Not, as they are, inarguable facts.

They must cling to their teddies and toys, crucifixes and rosaries, comfort/hope & certainty in a world of mortality and chance.

Science, technology and medicine keeps them alive, warm, fed, educated and entertained. But they know who and what is really looking after them... it's the father, the son and the holy ghost.

And not a shared bicameral projection of internal hierarchical fears, the substitution of The Son of God for the Sun of our galaxy, and hearing their own intracranial echoes as external guidance & truth.

Here: have an Easter Egg...
 
Ermintruder said:
Try cornering a devout Christian, get them to sit on their hands (so as to keep their ears uncovered) and then.....

Ask them to explain just exactly how the supposed resurrection of Christ ties-in with Easter Day being the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (ie the full moon) that falls on or after 21 March, being the day of the vernal equinox.

Then ask them if this is an inarguable chronological sequence, or not: the beginning of the universe; the existence of our planetary galaxy and solar system; the emergence of life, including human sentience; pagan worship of of sun/stars/planets and 'gods'; birth/life/death/resurrection of a historical character now known as Jesus; the present day.

Ask them how the birth / death / resurrection of Christ can not be viewed as being derivative allegorical fables that are mere literary adaptations of eternal astronomical cycles and previous pagan calendrical observances.

They will of course try to reject this. As being the words and work of the Devil, Lucifer, the light-bringer. Not, as they are, inarguable facts.

They must cling to their teddies and toys, crucifixes and rosaries, comfort/hope & certainty in a world of mortality and chance.

Science, technology and medicine keeps them alive, warm, fed, educated and entertained. But they know who and what is really looking after them... it's the father, the son and the holy ghost.

And not a shared bicameral projection of internal hierarchical fears, the substitution of The Son of God for the Sun of our galaxy, and hearing their own intracranial echoes as external guidance & truth.

Here: have an Easter Egg...
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It all works out if you look at things on the quantum level.
 
Crucified rabbit made entirely out of toast discovered outside Tooting Broadway Station. Happy Easter.

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