Hot cross buns
Posted on 02/07/2006 6:16:15 AM PST by NYer
Hot cross buns |
A school in the United Kingdom has banned traditional hot cross buns for fear the religious symbol drawn on the top of each roll might offend some students.
Hot cross buns are normally served during the Easter season, especially on Good Friday. Without the white cross drawn with icing, the treat is just a plain currant bun.
The head teacher of the Oaks Primary School in Ipswich, UK, Tina Jackson, has asked her supplier to nix the crosses, the Suffolk Evening Star reported.
"I would be surprised if anyone was offended," commented the Rev. Haley Dossor, vicar at St Mary-at-the-Elms Church. "It seems to me people in the secular world are scared of religious symbols. The school is quite wrong. All religions should respect each other."
Jackson defended her action.
"Obviously, the hot cross bun is a celebration of Easter but it is not Easter yet," she told the paper.
"The cross is there in recognition of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, but for our students who are Jehovah Witnesses hot cross buns are not part of their beliefs. We decided to ask to have the cross removed in respect of their beliefs."
The Star quoted one observer, who did not wish to be named: "I have never heard of anything so ridiculous. Since when have hot cross buns been offensive?"
Albert Berwick, a minister with the Ipswich Cavendish Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, agreed with the schools' new bun policy.
"I can understand why the school has done this and I support the decision. Hot cross buns are a pagan symbol of fertility no different to bunnies, eggs and Easter," Berwick is quoted as saying. "The Bible states we should not worship things of a pagan origin."
Hot cross buns are the subject of a familiar children's song:
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns
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Fine, let's up the ante: I'm offended by intersections.
Couldn't they just give them an eigth of a turn and say that they honor Malcolm X?
Oh yeah?!?! Well I am offended by a crescent moon, and any star in the heavens that appears to have 6 sides, or looks like an upside-down 5-sided star.
I am offended by a patterned shirt.
I am offended by spoiled cheese! Since I am offended, it must be banned.
They might as well dumb-down further by banning mathematics in school.
+, X are religious symbols.</sarc>
Jehovah's Witnesses are offended by the cross. They think it is of pagan origin. They insist that Christ was hung from an upright stake with no cross beam.
I think any TRUE Christian would know, the shape of the sticks that Christ was hung from is a subject of the utmost importance.
I am sure we would be condemned to the fiery furnace or at least eternal death were we ever to eat one of these pagan buns.
(/sarcasm)
Pretty soon, to be PC you can't say "cross out the box" just x it out. Oh but that depends on how you hold the page.
Lets see...the lefty over there is holding the page to where I'm insulted. /SARC
How moronic can this get?
Why should the children be offended? Just tell them it's a sweet treat, and let it go with that.
Even worse - statues of Piglet eating hot cross buns.
Boycott Danish, English Muffins & Freedom Fries.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486190/posts
The Danish, Swedish and Norwegian flags all have crosses on them. Wonder how long before the Muslims demand they be changed?
Never underestimate the moronic capacity of bureaucracy.
Or Political Correctness.
Or Liberals. Oh, wait. They are all the same thing.
I'm offended by square school buildings because the square symbolizes the rune "cow pie" in the Druid religion.
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