Why do atheist celebrate easter? - General

People celebrate all kinds of holidays despite not being religious. Nowadays you don't celebrate Christmas because of yadda yadda jesus, but because it's tradition.

I'm atheist, I don't celebrate easter. I'm going to go see the family, but you won't see me at mass or partaking in any services.

"Oh.. it's easter.. Let's continue playing Borderlands." This is how i "celebrate" easter.

We celebrate the rising of Zombie Jesus. He has risen for our si- [B]brains[/B]

I do it for the chocolate.

[QUOTE=Mikhail;21164162]Easter is a biblical time. So why do Atheist celebrate easter? Does that not contradict the fact you don't believe in god?[/QUOTE] What i wonder is how the fuck bunnies and chocolate eggs got into the bible. Oh wait, THEY NEVER MENTIONED THAT SHIT IN THE BIBLE. Also chocolate was considered one of devils temptations.

[QUOTE=ShitBalls;21164174]I just sit in my room.[/QUOTE] This, but for every day of my life.

I'm an athiest, but I'm still gonna dye eggs, go on an Easter Egg Hunt, and make [b]Deviled[/b] Eggs out of them. I find that boiling eggs, dyeing them with food coloring, hiding them for others to find, cracking the shells, cutting them in half, taking out the yolk, mixing it with mayonnaise and different seasonings, putting that back into the egg, and eating it, doesn't really bring out the Jesus in Easter for me.

Free chocolate bro

I'm Jewish and I'm still going to an easter dinner.

It's just another corporate opportunity to cash in on peoples love for chocolate these days, nobody cares about the meaning.

[QUOTE=NeoTurtle;21164470]Free chocolate bro[/QUOTE] Indeed. I'm not really doing anything today, anyways. Have to call the rest of my family, though, they're all Catholic. So yeah. It doesn't really matter.

Because it means free candy.

[QUOTE=Mikhail;21164162]Easter is a biblical time. So why do Atheist celebrate easter? Does that not contradict the fact you don't believe in god?[/QUOTE] Do Kraft, Cadburys, Nestlé or Mars believe in god?

[QUOTE=nERVEcenter;21164498]Indeed. I'm not really doing anything today, anyways. Have to call the rest of my family, though, they're all Catholic. So yeah. It doesn't really matter.[/QUOTE] Yeah, my Aunt is a nun. She'll probably be giving me a call. Maybe I'll answer the phone in the demon voice again

I do a quick "yay easter" then eat the chocolate eggs over a number of days. Same reason I celebrate pancake day.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;21164563]Yeah, my Aunt is a nun. She'll probably be giving me a call. Maybe I'll answer the phone in the demon voice again[/QUOTE] And I lol'd. +1 Internets

because chocolate owns

We don't, its zombie day for us. We watch zombie movies and play left 4 dead 2 while laughing at the Christians having to get up early to go to church.

[QUOTE=Monkey pie;21164425]What i wonder is how the fuck bunnies and chocolate eggs got into the bible. Oh wait, THEY NEVER MENTIONED THAT SHIT IN THE BIBLE. Also chocolate was considered one of devils temptations.[/QUOTE] the eggs thing was apparently some pagan tradition to do with the birth of new life and the hare (now interpreted as a rabbit) was an animal sacred to some culture (can't remember which)

Candy you moron. Why else? :v:

Because everyone likes chocolate.

[QUOTE=Mazakrov;21164182]Tell me how bunnies and eggs have anything to do with Zombie Jesus.[/QUOTE] Good Christian marketing. Say it's symbolic of new life (baby animals), resurrection (aka zombie Jesus), but at the same time allow the pagans who loved to celebrate with sweets (eg honey wheatcakes) their Eoster goddess to be able to keep to their traditions and not miss out, thereby making transition period after conversion to Christianity easier.

I don't celebrate it and im an athiest. I just get given chocolate.

I don't believe in god, but I do believe in getting together and celebrating with Family and Friends. That's why I celebrate Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, you name it. As long as I get to spend time with the people I love.

[QUOTE=Mazakrov;21164182]Tell me how bunnies and eggs have anything to do with Zombie Jesus.[/QUOTE] It's a gimmick it's just evolved to be about some bunny, probably by big companies as a publicity thing. And it's just became tradition.

[QUOTE=_Sniper_;21164337]Why do you celebrate Halloween? It's a harvest holiday and I'm pretty sure you don't harvest shit. :smug:[/QUOTE] Really? And I thought it was All Hallow's Even(ing), being the night before the feast of All Souls' and remembering the dead, who might walk among us at that time.

Family.

If christians can celebrate a pagan holiday, surely atheists can also celebrate it. Besides, the only way I celebrate it is by eating mämmi ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4mmi[/url]) and chocolate eggs/bunnies and stuff. Also, as an atheist I can celebrate any holiday I want to celebrate, whether it is religious or not. No god is going to punish me for celebrating the wrong holidays. :v:

[QUOTE=Acesarge;21164620]We don't, its zombie day for us. We watch zombie movies and play left 4 dead 2 while laughing at the Christians having to get up early to go to church.[/QUOTE] Yeah, we'll show those Christians by sitting in front of a computer all day and worshipping zombies that do not exist, and bitching about my crappy suburban teenage life on the internet. That's what all atheists celebrate. Because atheists don't ever celebrate or worship anythi- wait what.