5 April 2015
The day before Easter I was nonplussed
to see that many local churches were having their Easter Egg Hunts on Saturday.
Adding to my confusion was learning that the eggs were plastic and the contents
were candy.
I feel that I must be alone
in remembering that religious thought about Easter includes recognition that an
egg is the perfect symbol for the rebirth that both spring and the Resurrection
bring with them. Out of a closed container with no identity the germ of life
flourishes and out of a simple egg a complex life emerges.
As an “older gentleman” I can
remember churches having Easter Dawn services, in my case on the beach of the
Atlantic Ocean shore and that a real “Easter Egg” was presented to church
members in remembrance of the resurrection that is the sole reason for the day.
Since those youthful days the Yuppie and Millennial generations have adopted
political correctness that doesn’t allow for individual performance or attitude.
Real eggs might have Salmonella
and grubby fingers might get the egg dirty while they take that awful shell off
it and then they could make the innocent child sick! Anyway clean candy,
stuffed into a plastic egg is always better for the kids and who cares about
their weight and dental condition, that’s all in the future and we don’t think
about that.
Call me a curmudgeon, but I
believe that an honest appreciation of the historical and religious beginnings
of our society, and an honest application of those beginnings to our social thought
needs to happen.
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