O’Reilly: Easter Bunny Under Attack!!!!

It started with right-wing news site WorldNetDaily and Fox News daytime:



Now, finally, primetime cable’s fiercest culture warrior has joined the battle. Last night, Bill O’Reilly invited on Newsweek’s John Meacham to discuss the brewing ‘war on Easter’:



O’REILLY: Although some left-wingers in the media deny it, we have documented a number of cases where Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have been attacked by secular interests. Lawsuits and corporate policies have proved this point over and over again.

Doesn’t take much to get O’Reilly hopping mad.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/12/oreilly-easter/

does that mean there is a war on Muslum?

I only posted it a minute ago.

...actually, I did a search for "Easter" and it didn't come up, so I posted. Feel free to link to your post if you want.

Great minds think alike. Sometimes in unison.

I wonder if he can sue for ripping off his idea.

Does that mean I can sue O'Reilly and Colbert?

:popcorn:

And stick it up his:wtf:

(I'm referring to the religous Easter not the secular Easter celebration.)

Eggs and rabbits are fertility symbols and part of ancient pagan lore and ritual.

through the French Quarter this Sunday (a certifiable liberal neighborhood.) The attack has been so severe that the city is expecting a very large turnout to celebrate the rabbits and the eggs. Why its even hinted that homosexuals will come out of the bars and join in the fun.

Happy Easter! How was your trip to the French Quarter? Did Mrs. BOSSHOG have a good time?

I've got snapdragons and pansies to plant in my garden! My Crepe myrtle tree just put out leaves and my gelsimium (Carolina Jessamine) vine is about done blooming.

She has a nightclub on the corner of Bourbon and St Louis. She has to be about 300 years old but she dresses up and does an act every night. She's as part of the city now as Pete Fountain and Louis Armstrong. check her out.

http://www.chrisowensclub.com/ One of the campy queens of New Orleans.

Had a great visit. Ate catfish at Landry's near the river. Crawfish was $8.95 a pound. Obviously for tourists, because that's an outrageous price. Strolled the farmer's market, the wife got a "funky butt" necklace, I got a margaritaville switchplate for the garage and we got my mother in law another t-shirt. We also got some Fleur-di-lis coasters. We are going back 21 April for the first day of the french quarter festival then again on 30 April for the Bubba Gump 5k through the quarter. Its a Forest Gump themed restaurant on Decatur and after the race they serve Shrimp Pasta and Salad to all participants and lots of beer (at 9:00 in the morning - Yee-haw) We are adding to the tax base and having fun. I've slowed down to nothing on plants this year. We are in a terrible drought, we need rain bad. And we've had fires damn near wearing out our volunteer fire departments. However, I've babied our snapdragons and they are looking good. Heading for Kansas in May to spend Mothers-Day with my mother in law. Thank goodness we get 33 mpg! Have a great Georgia spring.

when I'm nearing seventy.

And every year she gets all gussied up for the Easter Parade through the Quarter. What a Town!

Sorry to hear about the drought. We had a real monster of a storm cross over Georgia last Saturday.
We hope to be able to travel down there soon. My sister-in-law is still in Kentucky with her grandson who his slowly improving. The French Quarter Festival sounds wonderful!
:hi:

I have in my hand a list of communists in our government. Poor "christians" can't stand not being "persecuted" so they have to make shit up. Self-flagellation to make them feel good about feeling bad.

AND THIS IDIOT TALKS ABOUT THE FUCKING EASTER BUNNY1?!?!?!?!

If anything Pagan symbols are being attacked.

Seriously, I looked up "attack" and "persecution" in the dictionary, and I have yet to see any evidence that in the United States Christians are being denied the right to practice their religion, being denied the right to hold public office, being denied the right to vote, etc. etc.

Clue to the nut balls: Not allowing you to force your religion on everyone IS NOT persecution.

I always say that to my fundie relatives.

"Stopping your bullying is not persecution!"

I think the more people like you and I keep pointing out the obvious, it just might sink into their thick sculls one of these days. Hopefully.

The glass is half-full, the glass is half-full..... ;-)

and his widow's struggle to get the DOD to recognize Wiccan as a faith/belief system.

Good Piece-
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5334805

thanks for the link.

A sad story. My father (a former Marine, Catholic, and a Republican) responded to this story as: "I took an oath to protecting the Constitution, as did that Marine. That oath includes the First Amendment. I am not going to rest until that man's wife get what she wants."

He has sent numerous letters, been on the phone with, Congress-critters, former Marine buddies who have taken up the cause, etc. Ya know, for a Repuke, I'm very proud of him. ;-)

All that icky Pagan symbolism, interfering with the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus... seems like a pretty clearcut case of a solemn religious observance being watered down by the elite liberal entertainment interests. :shrug:

at http://www.waroneaster.org/

:spray:

Two of the Apostles? Famous Prophets? Biblical characters? Christian Symbols?

But this year it falls on my birthday, so send me all the gifts.

Santa and the Easter Bunny are now the symbols children connect to from these holidays. I realize the past pagan history, but am looking at the way they are used in modern times.
It's interesting that these are ones O'Reilly and his ilk focus on. Is it because on some subliminal level they want people to think their children's belief systems, and by association, their children, are "under attack?."

BTW: please go vote these strips up at Comics Sherpa: http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=csckt

And hats off to the one (only one) E-Mailer who spelled "sacrilegious" correctly in his complaint! :)

and his sewage dwelling followers truly care about religous holidays. When I was in Catholic school, there was an uproar about the Bunny and Santa and the Christmas tree but for different reasons. Some thought that THOSE symbols were the insult against these holidays. The Obvious marketing aspect was an insult to the beliefs of Jesus. Yet this new group of big business Neo-Christians seem to think otherwise. I'm beginning to think they've never actually set foot in a church!

If they'd tasted matzo, I'm sure they'd agree!
(Oh, and happy Passover)

Remember remember the Fifth of November.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist. Your username and I saw "V for Vendetta" not long ago.)

Matzos, MMmmmmmmmm!

But it turns out he was just seeing the future.

My god. Satire should make fun of reality. It shouldn't become reality.

if so, they'd have to pry my margarita out of my cold dead hand

Just what you would expect from O'Reilly.

He sucks! People only tune in to see him tell other people to shut up.

for ratings. And just as absurd.
He's a carnival sideshow.

beliefs! Forget get about what that guy, Jesus, tried to teach mankind. Save the Easter Bunny!

One of the many things that are troubling about this guy, is that he knowingly redefines words with impunity to make his "arguments".

The word "secular" does NOT mean "opposed to religion"; it merely means that the subject in question does not contain religious elements. He is actively redefining this word on every show that I've seen.

He has his audience believing that "secular humanists" are pursuing an active agenda of undermining their right to worship. This sort of illogical double talk is intentional.

Most nights I watch the first few minutes of O'R to see what he is NOT discussing, and to see what subject he is attempting to substitute for the news he obviously SHOULD be discussing.

killing the easter bunny

everytime I see his face I imagine a penis with a nose. I can't stand the man.

was one of many celebrations of Spring, rebirth and fertility. This is where eggs and bunny's come from.

It's hard to imagine people are that ignorant and make a living as so called reporters or journalists. If anyone is curious this is a rather decent write up on Easter: Is Easter a Christian or Pagan Holiday? Geesh... I remember back in the early 70's the wacko Xians were trying to do away with all the Pagan holidays and/or the trimmings that were. .. guess that didn't work so now they're going to try a different tact. ::sigh::

It seems to me that these pseudo christians would be much closer to what Jesus taught if they'd get over the ever tiresome "oh poor me" martyr syndrome they embrace and actually read, learned and tried to live by what Jesus was trying to teach (in the red letter Bible). It's not "persecution" if people are trying to stop you from spreading LIES and spin and if you really ARE a totally ignorant gnat of a human being. Please do the world a favor and EVOLVE up to somewhere near where whomever is in charge of "intelligent design" might actually have a slight chance of a decent do-over.

edited: "spell check is my friend" ;)

Gosh darn it all to heck! They make me SO MAD.

being under attack

who knew O'lielly was a Pagan? :shrug:

And if he's up for that, there's always Father's Day, Independance Day, May Day, Cinco De Mayo, The Annual Company Picnic (usually held in July, date varies), My Birthday, Labor Day, Flag Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Annual Spend Till You Drop Day (the Friday immediately following Thansgiving) to declare war on.

O'Reilly won't have time for anything else.

Why is O'Lie-ley so concerned with the ommision of pagan symbols on his all important Christian holiday?