Bill O’Reilly jumps the Shark … errrr … Easter Bunny
Posted: March 23, 2013 Filed under: VAGINA Bill O'Reilly | Tags: easter bunny, german pagan rituals, origins of easter, Ostera, spring and fertility goddess, Vagina Bill O'Reilly 46 Comments
This is so ridiculous that it almost isn’t worth posting. However, it’s a Saturday and we could use a good laugh. Billy O’Reilly thinks secularizing the Easter Bunny will lead to abortion and drug use. I never knew O’Reilly was such a big fan of German Fertility Goddesses.
O’REILLY: Secular progressives are running wild with President Obama in the White House. They feel unchained, liberated, and they’re trying to diminish any form of religion. The goal is to marginalize religious opposition to secular programs. For example, in Canada and China a woman can have an abortion for any reason at any time. Secular progressives want that here. But traditional forces in America are in opposition. Therefore in this country, you can’t terminate a baby about to be born without a damn good reason. And if you do abort a late term baby, you could be charged with murder. SPs hate that. In Scandanavia, there are laws that say you cannot criticize minorities and if you do, you could be arrested. Secular progressives want laws like that here. Also the legalization of drugs, well under way in many places, and that is a secular cause. So, if the far left can marginalize Santa and the Easter bunny, of they can tell the children those symbols are obsolete and unnecessary, they then set the stage for a totally secular society in the future.
Look for the upcoming children’s book by Snowbilly Snookie right after her astounding literary contribution for children about the war on Santa and Christmas. It’s just amazing to me how early Romano-Christian culture co-opted pagan rituals and symbols and these whackadoodles seem to be upset when every one wants them back. Rabbits and eggs are very ancient fertility symbols. The egg-laying bunny actually wasn’t invented until the 18th century. The actual origin of the bunny comes from Germany and it had nothing to do with a christian “Easter” It had to do with a Germanic Fertility Goddess.
The idea of an egg-laying bunny came to the U.S. in the 18th century. German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the “Osterhase” (sometimes spelled “Oschter Haws“[11]).[12] “Hase” means “hare”, not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the “Easter Bunny” indeed is a hare, not a rabbit. According to the legend, only good children received gifts of colored eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter.[13] In 1835, Jakob Grimm wrote of long-standing similar myths in Germany itself. Grimm suggested that these derived from legends of the reconstructed continental Germanic goddess *Ostara,
Ostara is the German spring and fertility goddess. Be prepared, the history of this actually links to my interest in extremely old burials and grave goods.
Easter is deeply rooted in German culture: as a time of celebrations,
customs and traditions across the country. The word Ostern is believed to have come from the German Spring and Fertility Goddess Ostara, whose sacred animal was the ‘fertile’ hare, and in pre-Christian days a light cult held a festival in her honor as soon as the days became longer, which, with the introduction of Christianity, was changed in the 2nd century to a celebration for the resurrection of Jesus. As a source of new life the egg had been a symbol of creation, spring and fertility since ancient times, long before Christianity, with its origins traced back to 5000 BC, when the Egyptians and Persians painted eggs to eat and give as presents for spring equinox. The first Christians then placed eggs both in and on graves, believing that just as a grave hid a life the egg also seemed to be dormant but contained life sealed within it, and German archeologists have found centuries old examples of these offerings.
Again, it’s just another example of how Roman culture and religion co-opted pagan culture. The word “easter” is basically an anglicized version of the goddess’ name. The eggs existed as pagan symbols way before the invention of Christianity itself. The entire man-in-bunny-suit is a modern invention.
Bill O’Reilly is continues to prove he’s an ignorant ass.
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Well you know kat that it’s a slippery slope there.
Guess that’s the domino theory of human behavior!!
Exactly! LOL!
When was the Easter Bunny a religious symbol? Not the religion I grew up in (Catholic). Neither was Santa Claus.
Bill O’Reilly is a moron.
Do you suppose his ratings are down or he’s nervous about the change in schedule at MSNBC? He makes up the most ridiculous stuff!!!
Well, maybe he has all this “stuff” on his mind because he is doing research, cough…cough…on his book in progress: Killing Jesus.
Do you suppose he’s upset because he found out the Easter Bunny isn’t mentioned in the New Testament?
I guess we could argue whether they are really christian religious symbols, but their presence is firmly embedded in most children’s minds as part of the holiday experience.
Bill O’Reilly IS a moron.
I always thought they were marketing symbols but then I was jaded even as a child.
I don’t recall ever thinking of them as Religious symbols. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was emphasized by the priests and nuns that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny had nothing to do with Jesus.
The Easter Bunny and Santa made more sense to me as a child than the baby Jesus.
Moron I think sums it up very well.
How can you talk about Easter Bunny that way?! Don’t you know that he died for our sins?
Ha that is a good one x…
Hippitus hoppitus ….
I agree, but I thank you for reminding us about religious symbols such as these. I think every generation or less, we have to keep telling the real history.
Okay, this is OT but you all need to go to the huffpo main page, now: Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post there is a updating map of shootings in the US…since Newtown.
My husband likes to tell the story of how he pissed off a colleague when someone asked when Easter was that year. My husband said, “I’m not sure of the actual date but I know it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox.” Some dude said, clearly annoyed, “No it’s not, it’s the day Jesus was resurrected.”
Oooookaaaayyyyy…
Wow, how did you stay sane all these years without locking yourself in the house away from the neighbors?
There is no place to hide from these people. You just have to dare to be different. We kind of get off on it.
I just live in the gay, hippy, and artist ghetto wherever I go so at least I can avoid them from day-to-day.
The guy he was talking to was someone he worked with on K Street in DC, many years ago. They are everywhere. Except in a few pockets of sanity. To be honest, the neighbors have now, are even crazier. And dumber.
When people say things like that, I usually just laugh at them. It normally pisses them off once it dawns on them you think they’re nuts.
I should probably front page this because it’s an important read: Too poor to retire.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2013/03/20/the-greatest-retirement-crisis-in-american-history/
And don’t forget not able to work and unable to get a job if we are able to work.
The Ryan Budget would force Social Security “reform” almost immediately if it passed.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/20/1195579/-Ryan-Social-Security-Roadmap-the-Reischauer-Blahous-Commission
I have a brother who is an excellent example of this. He’s been unemployed for over a year, has no savings, lots of debt, and he’s 58 years old. He and his wife made good money but they spent more. We tried to tell him but he knew better. Now he doesn’t even have enough equity in his house to sell it. My husband and I have done what we could to help but my other brothers refuse. I don’t know what will become of them. His wife still has her job, but she doesn’t make enough to get them out of this mess.
Many who saved have lost everything–either from the 2007 taking most of their 401K’s or from losing their retirement benefits thanks to people like Mitt Romney. The article says that the vast majority of baby boomers will be without retirement money except for Social Security.
There is going to be hell to pay for what the oligarchs are doing. They pushed things too far and now we are headed for serious social unrest.
I’m seeing this now with my 90 year old father. He has a modest amount of investments, but has had to dip into them more and more to make ends meet. For the first time in decades, since 2008, he has worried constantly about money. So much for the golden years. Even the WWII generation who followed all the rules and had the best benefits, if feeling the pinch.
The Onion: Poll: 99% Of Human Beings Would Prefer Big, Slobbery Hound Dog Pope
Speaking of feel good stories, I don’t know how I could have missed this huge one.
The story I’m following: expatriot Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky apparently committed suicide in London. He was found in his bathtub. He has lost must of his fortune in recent years–an expensive divorce, which his ex-wife celebrated in Cyprus, losing a lawsuit to a former friend, and other disasters. Could it be that the looming Cyprus “haircut” was the last straw?
He had just asked Vladamir Putin to allow him to return to Russia.
I just read this…wow.
On top of everything else, his former girlfriend claimed Berezovsky owed him 20 million pounds, and a court had frozen that portion of his assets.
Whenever a Russian government is somehow involved, any suicide is suspicious.
Have you all seen the recent Dubya paintings: A Watermelon, a Golf Course, a Horse, and Monstrous Dogs: 12 New Paintings from George W. Bush
This George W. Bush Painting Of A Dog Will Break Your Heart – Business Insider
Doesn’t break my heart, Makes me want to do a happy dance. 🙂
I started to get nauseated looking at some of those paintings–and not because they’re by GW Bush. The perspective is so weird in some of them that it made me feel sick. I’m never looking at any of his paintings again.
The idea of Bush being back in the WH is nauseating. I think his paintings suck like an 8 year old or something who can’t quite draw.
This Boris Berezovsky story is getting creepier–the police have now cordoned off his house and chemical hazard experts are searching it.
Berezovsky was to give a deposition tomorrow in the case of his close friend Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with radioactive material in 2006.
This is a fascinating and disturbing story.
Another wealthy Russian businessman died mysteriously last November–he also lived in Surrey. He was found dead on the street. British police received tips to check for poisons, but the results aren’t back yet. He reportedly left Russia because he “feared for his life.”
And there this guy that I mentioned in my Thursday Reads: Sergei Magnitsky Uncovered Russia-To-Cyprus Money Laundering, And Look What Happened To Him
Both of these Russians were involved in an investigation of a “major case” begun after Magnitsky discovered massive fraud having to do with the Russian-Cyprus financial connections.
As of late tonight, Cyprus is still nowhere near a deal.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_23/03/2013_489584
Check out @kyrstensinema on @MHPshow! Powerful piece about erosion of women’s access to reproductive health care. http://nbcnews.to/YztIIV
Bill O’Reilly is a baseline bigot who appeals to those who see themselves as “victims”.
As for the “true meaning” of Easter:
1. Marshmallow peeps appearing in every color under the rainbow.
2. An Easter ham.
3. Baskets full of chocolate bunnies.
4. A new outfit.
5. “Sales, sales, and more sales”.
6. Colored eggs followed by a “hunt”.
7. Greeting cards.
8. The annual presentation of “The Sound of Music”.
9. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing their hearts out at dawn.
If not for those “true believers” like Bill who keep a wary eye on these things, those nasty secularists would “do away” with these sacred rites and traditions that have been handed down from generation to generation since – oh, I don’t know, maybe 1950 when t.v. became the “bomb” and set off a flurry of advertisements that rule our lives to this day.
If any one of these above mentioned items have a thing to do with the Resurrection itself let me know and I will shut my secularist mouth.
I love ya Pat!
Did O’Reilley EVER go to theology class in his four years at Jesuit run Fordham? If he did, he would know all about the co-opting of pagan rituals. Or is he just conveniently forgetting so he can rant on? Maybe he should have a refresher course with the new Jesuit pope.