Honestly, I don't care. I think it's stupid to be entirely frank with you. If people feel that uppity about the name, then don't take the kids to see the Bunny, Santa, or anything else. What will the Tooth Faerie be called next I wonder? I bet it'll be something like "Dental Hygiene Sprite" or something equally ridiculous.
Let the name be, it's tradition and it's a children's holiday, not a political merry-go-round. Stop trying to ruin it all with politics and "they stole it from so and so" crap. I am incredibly sick of hearing people try dragging in political correctness into a holiday for children. Yes, Easter was originally a religious holiday, but so what? Do you think children are going to understand all of that when they're so little? Of course not. I certainly didn't and I definitely didn't care.
Seriously people, shut up about where the holidays came from, the political correctness of the names, and trying to make everyone feel good. It's a holiday for children. They get candy, they enjoy themselves, they're happy. They don't care about where it came from or making everyone feel good. Why should you? Same with all the other holidays out there. Just leave it alone, if not for the rest of us, for the kids.
Should the Easter Bunny Be Called the 'Spring Bunny'?
SodaHead News
2011/04/21 19:00:00
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First it was the War on Christmas. Now get ready for the sequel: the Assault on Easter.
It's happening in Boynton Beach, Fla., where the Easter Bunny has morphed into the "Spring Bunny" and Easter eggs are being called, no joke, "spring spheres."
According to the Palm Beach Post, officials at the city's senior center were still planning to host an Easter show and Easter bonnet contest on Thursday, but the celebrations could look a lot different this time next year.
“We’ll probably be changing soon,” said staffer Ann Foster. “I’ve heard there is a lot of controversy. Now people say, ‘holiday party’ and ‘holiday show.’ I don’t know where we’re going with all this.”
Unlike the Fox News-stoked scare over the de-Christ-ing of Christmas, the paper reported that the stealthier de-Easterization of the bunny began quietly around six years ago in shopping malls, which started promoting events such as the “Bunny Bash Extravaganza” and the “Spring Bunny” visit.
The move is on all over Florida, with Palm Beach County Schools referring to a "Spring Holiday" vacation day on Friday, aka Good Friday.
Though the White House still refers to its annual "Easter Egg Roll," a private school in Seattle has opted for the "spring spheres" euphemism and the city's parks department removed all mentions of Easter from its egg hunt ads.
Even Hollywood is getting in on the act, with the star of the recent No. 1 animated film bearing the name "E.B." The best part is that all this hoopla is around a holiday that was invented by pagans, with Easter's roots derived from a celebration by Babylonians who colored eggs and hunted for them 2,000 years before Christ's birth.
Should the Easter bunny be called "Spring Bunny?"
It's happening in Boynton Beach, Fla., where the Easter Bunny has morphed into the "Spring Bunny" and Easter eggs are being called, no joke, "spring spheres."
According to the Palm Beach Post, officials at the city's senior center were still planning to host an Easter show and Easter bonnet contest on Thursday, but the celebrations could look a lot different this time next year.
“We’ll probably be changing soon,” said staffer Ann Foster. “I’ve heard there is a lot of controversy. Now people say, ‘holiday party’ and ‘holiday show.’ I don’t know where we’re going with all this.”
Unlike the Fox News-stoked scare over the de-Christ-ing of Christmas, the paper reported that the stealthier de-Easterization of the bunny began quietly around six years ago in shopping malls, which started promoting events such as the “Bunny Bash Extravaganza” and the “Spring Bunny” visit.
The move is on all over Florida, with Palm Beach County Schools referring to a "Spring Holiday" vacation day on Friday, aka Good Friday.
Though the White House still refers to its annual "Easter Egg Roll," a private school in Seattle has opted for the "spring spheres" euphemism and the city's parks department removed all mentions of Easter from its egg hunt ads.
Even Hollywood is getting in on the act, with the star of the recent No. 1 animated film bearing the name "E.B." The best part is that all this hoopla is around a holiday that was invented by pagans, with Easter's roots derived from a celebration by Babylonians who colored eggs and hunted for them 2,000 years before Christ's birth.
Should the Easter bunny be called "Spring Bunny?"
we Americans can't wait until 2012 and we get an AMERICAN PRESIDENT ..
When the joker got elected we all got the wacko's comming out????
bye the way ...who lives in New mexico .....aliens from another world .....67% for spring bunny
smoking "GRASS"
But yeah, who cares.
It’s an traditional American holiday & there’s no harm in Easter.
While Easter is religious before it became commercialized by the Easter Bunny, The Easter Bunny brings joy to kids & should be left alone.
Christians have associated the rebirth of life in the spring to the Resurrection of Christ at Easter . The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season.
The bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have its origins in Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500s. The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800s. And were made of pastry and sugar.
The Easter bunny was introduced to American folklore by the German Catholic settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s.
The arrival of the "Oschter Haws" was considered "childhood's greatest pleasure" next to a visit from Christ-Kindel on Christmas Eve. The children believed that if they were good the "Oschter Haws" would lay a nest of colored eggs. The eggs were in abundance because the Catholics could not eat them during the 40 days of lent.
The children would build their nest in a secluded place in the home, the barn or the garden. Boys would use their caps and girls their bonnets to make the nests . The use of elaborate Easter baskets would come later as the tradition of the Easter bunny spread through out the country.
The Easter bunny has always been called the E...
Christians have associated the rebirth of life in the spring to the Resurrection of Christ at Easter . The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season.
The bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have its origins in Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500s. The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800s. And were made of pastry and sugar.
The Easter bunny was introduced to American folklore by the German Catholic settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s.
The arrival of the "Oschter Haws" was considered "childhood's greatest pleasure" next to a visit from Christ-Kindel on Christmas Eve. The children believed that if they were good the "Oschter Haws" would lay a nest of colored eggs. The eggs were in abundance because the Catholics could not eat them during the 40 days of lent.
The children would build their nest in a secluded place in the home, the barn or the garden. Boys would use their caps and girls their bonnets to make the nests . The use of elaborate Easter baskets would come later as the tradition of the Easter bunny spread through out the country.
The Easter bunny has always been called the EASTER BUNNY in the Christian tradition and doesn't need to be changed because some revisionists don't like its ties to a Christian holiday.
WELL THAT'S TOO BAD!
Christians don't try to change Ramadan to Oktoberfest and we are insulted that President Obama would celebrate the Muslim holiday but give no mention of the Resurrection of the Christ on this holiest of Christian Holidays..
When I think of Easter, I think of the one bunny rabbit that could lay eggs and how special that bunny rabbit is, which is why we worship it as a god. And to think that the eggs are so beautiful too!
ALL HAIL EGG LAYING BUNNY RABBIT!
easter is the day Jesus rose from the dead and we should respect that
heck... i dont even b-live in the easter bunny
But Easter is also a time we die eggs, buy jelly beans, chocolate eggs,
Chocolate bunny. It was time you would buy a new dress, hat, and white gloves, go to church on Easter Sunday, Go to Grandma House for dinner.
Happy EASTER
What the frak does any of this have to do with any religion anywhere?
There is absolutely no reason to remove "Easter" from Easter. They are just trying to avoid certain crowds and relabeling what they do as though it was different from what others do.
Jumping Up is universal regardless how many times you might call it Momentary Gravitational Defiance Utilizing Lower Muscular Extremities.
Waste not want not.
I noticed they are keeping the rabbit.
*Siiigh*
Thanks.