Posted on 04/08/2017 10:25:40 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has criticized a charity for allegedly downplaying references to Easter for seasonal egg hunts as being "absolutely ridiculous."
The National Trust, which works to preserve landscapes and buildings in the U.K., has a partnership with Mondelez-owned Cadbury to run chocolate Easter egg hunts on its land. A logo promoting the events features a white rabbit and purple egg with the words "Join the Cadbury egg hunt," and a website states: "Join us over the Easter holidays to run through muddy woodlands, around mystical lakes and along nature trails on a Cadbury Egg Hunt."
But this year Cadbury has been accused by a senior member of the Church of England of dropping "Easter" from communication about the egg hunts, something the National Trust and Cadbury have denied.
Speaking to ITV News this morning Prime Minister May said: "I think the stance they've taken is absolutely ridiculous and I don't know what they're thinking about.
"Easter's very important. It's important to me, it's a very important festival for the Christian faith for millions across the world.
"So I think what the National Trust is doing is frankly just ridiculous."
Her comments follow an accusation from the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, that Cadbury has removed "Easter" from its Easter egg hunt.
"To drop Easter from Cadbury's Easter Egg Hunt in my book is tantamount to spitting on the grave of Cadbury," he said in an emailed statement. The Archbishop called founder John Cadbury, along with confectionery business owners Joseph Rowntree and Joseph Fry, the "trinity of chocolate," and a spokesperson for the Church of England added in an emailed statement:
"Alongside the Rowntrees and Frys, the Cadburys were motivated by their Christian faith to be champions of social reform. The connection between faith-based motivation and business was....
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The left is ethnic-cleansing Easter like they did with Christmas.
Given the Church of England's stance on a number of topics in the past couple of years, I'm shocked it wasn't done at their behest.
Pagan roots anyway. See Eostre / Ostara.
Sounds like a shakedown to me. “Easter.” “Holiday.” Two-for-two in an accurate description on the part of Cadbury. On the other hand, you have the Church of England which goes all-out Muslim every Christmas and never mentions the name, “Jesus” or “Christmas” in the whole ceremony... but they’re attacking Cadbury for their Easter Holiday egg hunt?
Yep, a 200 year effort to “Kill God” by the irrational, vile Postmodernist movement.
They understood if you can block certain words from the public square, you can erase concepts and history from the minds of the future. Literally kill certain concepts in children.
The great “dumbing’ down of our children is to erase all traditions and understanding of the concepts that created individualism and free will and Natural Rights only from God—never government. For the NWO, children are being made into ignorant, irrational useful idiots-—they have no understanding of the Classical Christian curricula which created the Age of Reason and the US Constitution and all the most free brilliant cultures in the history of man.
For the NWO, the Marxists knew they had to destroy Christianity—that worldview in children. They have been very successful in creating the old pagan, hedonist pre-Christian world; Roman emperors having thier little homosexual orgies with little boys and castrating them and even sacrificing them to their pederastic, irrational gods. We are almost there in normalization and promotion of Vice 24/7 to our children, even in our “Justice” (virtue) system. We literally promote evil,vile, irrational behaviors in our skools and “Just Law” (oxymoron).
Virtue is essential for freedom (free will and agency). Vice creates slaves for the state always.
The Cadbury eggs sold in the U.S., aren’t even made by Cadbury. They’re made by Hershey’s. I found that out when I went to the U.K.
Although Catholic nations use names derived from “Passover,” I feel the need to debunk this nonsense.
There is no historical connection between the pagan goddess, Eostre, if anyone ever believed in such a goddess, and Easter. The sole reference is “Eostremonad” (Easter month) which Bede believed must have pagan origins, because he was unaware that England had been Christianized before the fall of Rome and then largely went pagan again.
In fact, “Eostremonad” meant nothing other than “Easter season,” based on the Church calendar celebrating the entire time between Easter and Penteocost as Easter, The word, “Easter” refers to orienting oneself towards the rising sun, the direction of Jerusalem, and the direction that the bible claims Jesus will return from.
So where do Easter eggs come from?
During Lent, ancient Christians refrained from ALL meat, oil, dairy, fish, etc. Now, you can choose not to kill your animals for meat during Lent. You can choose not to catch your fish. You can make cheese out of milk so it doesn’t go bad. But you can’t stop your hens from laying eggs.
Therefore, during the fast of Lent, eggs built up like mad. When they could eat protein on Sundays or come Easter, they ate all those eggs. And were thrilled for the protein from doing so.
That simple. No pagan connection at all. And that’s why Eastern churches, which normally don’t get involved with silly Protestant notions like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, nevertheless make a BIG deal out of Easter eggs, because they’re the ones who still fast.
Pre-”Mondelez” nee Kraft, the Cadburys were of the Quaker persuasion.
Well, I stand corrected. Very interesting. Thank you.
From "Monde" - French for 'world' and "Lez" a common truncated form for 'Lesbian'.
Thus, "Mondelez" = "World Lesbian"
Actually, it could be "Lesbian World" -- a new theme park in Orlando.
Would much rather welcome throat slashers and head loppers than cadbury easter eggs
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