Posted on 03/23/2005 12:18:00 PM PST by MadJack
'Easter' Bunny Gives Way To 'Spring' Bunny Some Local Malls Go P.C. For Religious Holiday Customers at local area malls are being taken by surprise to find that the Easter Bunny they've come to know and love now has a new name.
In fact, some local malls now refer to the Easter icon as the "Spring Bunny."
However, some customers don't like the new trend.
"It makes me sad, because I think Easter is really important. The message is important," Plano mother Deidra Klemm said. "And I think it's wrong to call him the Spring Bunny. Let's just say what he really is."
Klemm is not alone. Another unidentified mother said, "The Easter Bunny is the Easter Bunny. There's no getting around it."
Some popular malls that have adopted the new trend include The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano and the Stonebriar Centre in Frisco.
According to a Willow Bend representative, the Spring Bunny is a celebration of the season for all faiths to enjoy.
The Easter Bunny derives from the Celtic Goddess of Fertility (the Hare was her emblem), so no blood, no foul.
Coming soon: the Eid-ster Bunny, with chocolate hand grenades for all the children. ;)
Back in the 50s there was a pop tune called 'Green Christmas' that annoyed the city fathers so much they banned it. They tried but could not stop the rising tide of commercialization even then.
LOL! So why not the Celtic bunny?
Hey, they can have the Easter Bunny and the Spring Bunny. It's all a bunch of crap.
So what do we call the Easter Beagle?
Ooo, ooo, ooo, lemme answer that one!
UMmmmmmm....a fabrication that has nothing to do with the meaning of Easter??????
Did I get it? Did I get it? Did I get it?
I believe because Romans - 5 (Northern Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul, Spain, Britain) ,Celts - 0.
Goodness. What's that woman thinking? The Easter Bunny wasn't crucified for my sins, feel free to kick him out of the mall.
I like my bunnies stewed. With herbs.
;-)
Seriesly, I got my jedis some chocolate bunnies which they will hardly glance at and certainly not attribute any deep meaning to before they bite their heads off. They know there's no such thing. It's a silly tradition like the tooth fairy that will be barely acknowledged other than in passing this Sunday. Our thoughts and meditations will be more on remembering the Lamb than on any old bunny, Spring or otherwise.
But my sister-in-law...now there's another story. No mention at all of the Lord or his Ressurection, but a livingroom full of toys and candy...the Easter Bunny coming is a bigger deal than Santa!
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I got mad a a Kroger radio add this morning because they said "It just wouldn't be Easter without good food."
They weren't talking about the bread and the wine.
On the other hand - I was kind of depressed about not having the traditional Easter dinner with my family. (So I'm hosting one at a friend's house)
I think it's fine to make Easter a holiday, as long as we don't forget it's a holy-day.
We do Easter baskets. But the boys have always known they're from us. Jr. actually asked us where the baskets came from when he was about 5 or 6, so we told him.
He started giving us a list of his favorite candies.
Absolutely. It should be a day of celebration.
But we need to know why.
Ha ha ha!!
I'm really looking forward to this Sunday. Like Christmas, it's gonna be the best I've had in a long time.
Why, it's because Hoppy the Easter Bunny brings spring, of course! And lays hard-boiled colored eggs.
Since our Easter baskets were Longaberger baskets that the rest of the year we used for keeping things in, we never had to wonder where they came from. Then again we didn't do Santa Claus, either. Our family lares and penates are of the silly variety - the Pizza Monster who eats a slice or two on the way home from the pizza shop, that sort of thing.
Could this be a case of inquireing minds DON'T want to know..
(twisting mustache, muttering to myself)..
When our boy was about 6, I blew off the whole Easter Bunny thing, much to his Mom's disappointment.
He was up for a couple of hours, and then asked, "Hey, what happened to the Easter Bunny?".
I replied, "The coyotes ate him.".
He said, "Ummm, ok."
I thought it was just a good way to keep the country boy glued to reality, and even he saw the humor in it.
His mother, on the other hand, was not amused... :^)
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