Friday, March 5, 2010

BUNNIES LAY EGGS?! WHAT?!

We are currently in the season of Lent. For Christians such as myself...well to be more technical I am Catholic...This is a period of 40 days in which we mourn and celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Now the question is why Easter Bunnies laying eggs?!
For many years I pondered this and now I feel the need to write about it haha
Many Christian Holidays became very commercialized such as Easter, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Christmas are now not just celebrated by Christians but by so many others. Yes and many have forgotten the real meaning of these holidays to a certain extent. Isn't celebrating a Christian holiday by non-Christians sacrilegious to their own religion?
well.... there is also the fact that these Christian holidays have been mixed with pagan and mythological characters and events.
Valentine's is mixed with the Roman and Greek god of love Eros/Cupid (Saint Valentine is actually not even associated with love), Easter with Rabbits and eggs representing fertility and Vernal Equinox, Christmas with Roman celebration of Winter Solstice and mistletoe with Norse mythology relating to the God Loki (the part of giving Christmas gifts is true to Christianity celebrating Saint Nicholas who was a person that liked to give out gifts), St. Patrick's Day (Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland who would wear a four leaf clover)..well that one is probably the one that is not mixed with any pagan not mythological events (at least that I know of) but it is majorly commercialized according to the way the Irish celebrate it as the day to wear green and drink alcohol.
I am guilty of celebrating without thinking about celebrating the life of the saint..... I do like my St. Patrick's day :D
hahaha I was only going to write about bunnies laying eggs and I ended bringing up other holidays...well it goes hand in hand addressing that issue it can't be avoided. I basically just spewed out what I was thinking without organizing it. Hopefully it makes sense.
I believe I can write an entire book about this hahaha right know I just briefly touched upon the subject. I find this interesting and possibly later on I could go into more research...maybe...yeah I am just a very curious person if something calls my attention I investigate. I like to learn new things and satisfy my curiosity.
ok here is a random comment hahaha I really want to eat meat right now hahaha *sigh* since it's lent I made my sacrifice as well as making the sacrifice of not eating meat on Fridays. It's a bit saddening the fact that when you can't do a specific thing it's the time when u want to do it the most.







ok I'll end my entry here before it gets any longer.

and like every entry here is a video if U2 and Irish band whose lead singer is an amazing person. This is the video for Beautiful Day

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