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Top Candy Makers Scrub 'Easter' From Packaging
CBN News ^ | 04/15/2017 | na

Posted on 04/15/2017 7:33:04 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

Grocery store aisles are lined with chocolate candy bunnies, jelly beans, and marshmallow Peeps, but one thing is missing--the word "Easter."

Hershey's, M&M's, Lindor, Russell Stover, Dove, Rolo, and Twix have all produced Easter themed candy without mentioning the word on the front of their candy, according to a press release from the Liberty Counsel.

"Just as companies were trying to profit from Christmas while ignoring the reason for the celebration, now companies are targeting the Christian aspects of Easter and removing them," Mat Staver, Founder, and Chairman of Liberty Counsel said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; antichristianbigotry; chocolate; culture; easter; eastercandy; indoctrination; purge
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To: ForYourChildren

Time for a CHRISTIAN owned candy company.


41 posted on 04/15/2017 8:19:10 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: ForYourChildren

There’s not much that is Christian about bunnies and eggs, so I don’t see this as too big a deal.

Corporate America, most of it anyway, is only interested in $ and not respect for Christian traditions. Best response is to stop supporting them with our $.


42 posted on 04/15/2017 8:20:54 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: who knows what evil?

I buy pecans, toast them. Then get dark chocolate from aldi, melt it and add butter and mix, pour, cool and eat.


43 posted on 04/15/2017 8:22:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ForYourChildren

My local super market bakery did not have Hot Cross buns for the first time in the 30 years I’ve shopped there. I asked why and the clerk said “no one buys them any more I guess”.


44 posted on 04/15/2017 8:22:55 PM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: ForYourChildren

I noticed the “Spring Equinox” candy seemed over stocked this year — I guess there has been a bit of a boycott.


45 posted on 04/15/2017 8:23:32 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Jane Long
I think they’ve sold, since original owner.

Same company as it originally was. They are trying to be "year round" - Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, not just Easter. They have several retail stores also.

Company name is Just Born.

46 posted on 04/15/2017 8:24:10 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: ForYourChildren

Easter Sunday long ago became a ‘Hallmark’ holiday in Our (formerly) Nation Under God.

This sort of thing may push me over the edge one day - I now have a less than zero tolerance for the corporations/people who mock the Holy Day of Easter Sunday...

GRRR! Please forgive my anger (tagline) and I sincerely send wishes to all my FRiends here for a blessed and happy Easter.


47 posted on 04/15/2017 8:25:56 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: cyclotic
I’ve had several store clerks wish me Happy Easter this year.

It's "Happy Easter" everywhere I've gone today. From folks bicycling out on the bike trails, the local Pep Boys where i had some new tires out on my son's car, the local pizza place that I and my new girl went to for dinner and the Meijer grocery store this evening as I stopped to pick up a few things for tomorrow's festivities.

It's been "Happy Easter" all day! I don't recall this ever happening before and I'm 54.

48 posted on 04/15/2017 8:26:10 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Timpanagos1
How did we ever arrive at chocolate bunnies and peeps for Easter?

Eggs and bunnies are symbols of fertility, which has been celebrated in the early springtime since long before Christianity (or Judaism, for that matter). Since the era of Astarte, in fact (which is where we get the name "Easter").

49 posted on 04/15/2017 8:29:09 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Funny you mentioned that.

My family bought absolutely no candy this year either. Last year we had Cadbury eggs, the Cadbury Robin eggs (Easter pastels) and Easter Tweets

This year, NOTHING AT ALL


50 posted on 04/15/2017 8:32:10 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: ForYourChildren

Dang worthless scumbags!


51 posted on 04/15/2017 8:36:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ForYourChildren

Russell Stover still has the chocolate crosses on their site. I didn’t look in stores.


52 posted on 04/15/2017 8:37:22 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Nor did we....not really celebrating candy and the bunny.


53 posted on 04/15/2017 8:52:47 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: ForYourChildren

They killed Christmas and replaced it with generic secular Happy Holidays. Is it any surprise they are killing Easter? It is all about the bunny, donchaknow.


54 posted on 04/15/2017 9:04:23 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Before too long, Easter will be some kind of Druidic Earth festival.


55 posted on 04/15/2017 9:05:27 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: thecodont

Palmer chocolates are horrible!


56 posted on 04/15/2017 9:05:38 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Jane Long

PAAS had EASTER TRADITIONS on the one I bought at Wal Mart yesterday, had a bunch of other weird ones, from cartoon characters. So that company did have one and had Crosses on one of the eggs on the front, and Crosses and Bunnies and Flowers on the other ones. Oh yes and some Lambs. lol


57 posted on 04/15/2017 9:10:10 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Jane Long

Ah, the old kits with the acetone/fuel oil die mixture.

(grin)


58 posted on 04/15/2017 9:11:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: SecAmndmt

>> I don’t see this as too big a deal.

It’s a big deal.


59 posted on 04/15/2017 10:12:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

The world is never going to accept Christ. Never has.


60 posted on 04/15/2017 10:43:22 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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