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Inspired by the Holiday stocking situation at the Wal-Mart where I'm temping at, I was amazed at the time I drew this to see that only one end cap had St. Patrick's day merchandise on it, while a good third of the store was flooded with Easter themed merchandise. The poor fellow awakened by the ruckus is there to remind us what the Holiday was really about. (I don't draw humans often, but I like the way he turned out.)
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It's a sad fact that most retail places recognize about three holidays: Christmas, Halloween, and Easter. Valentines Day and the Fourth of July are pale second-runners while St. Patrick's Day is given a passing nod.
[sarcasm]Thanksgiving is celebrated by having huge sales the next day or (if you're really unlucky) having the store open the day itself so customers can do even earlier bargain shopping. Since none of the employees have families or lives outside the store, this is obviously a perfectly acceptable practice. [/sarcasm]
[sarcasm]Thanksgiving is celebrated by having huge sales the next day or (if you're really unlucky) having the store open the day itself so customers can do even earlier bargain shopping. Since none of the employees have families or lives outside the store, this is obviously a perfectly acceptable practice. [/sarcasm]
I've been there a few times myself. We called the post Thankisgiving day sales, "Black Friday," but the term refers to the fact most retailers get "Back in the black" budget wise on their pre-holiday sales. I even voluntierd at double pay in 1996 to be on staff during a Thanksgiving day opening. Bad mistake. We had about only three customers that whole day.
Where I worked at the customers were fairly knowledgeable about the store being open. It was really awful because it was open until 8 at night, so at least some people would miss Thanksgiving Day dinner with their families. We didn't have a volunteer system, you worked or else lost your job.
The worst part was all the people that would say "Isn't it a shame you're open today?"
The worst part was all the people that would say "Isn't it a shame you're open today?"
Oh! That I'll have to see! It was strange enough seeing easter baskets with large toy airliners inside with the windows decals running along the TOPS of the fuselage as well as alongst the sides. What are they thinking over there in China? That they're double stacking passengers now? The "Transformer" robots were cool.
Um, actually, the followers of the 'guy in the cave" stoled spring equinox from the poor Pagans who celebrated the rebirth of life with the fertility symbols of eggs and, rabbits, (and everyone knows what they say about breeding like, well rabbits) easter, like christmas was a coopted holiday. sorry solidfox07, but you are right that most folks have forgotten this time of the year is about rebirth, and not about some guy coming out of a cave, despite the fact it's a nice tie in, which is why the early chirch cooppted it for their own reasons in the "conversion" of the peoples of the Heath. (heathens)
That being said...
Great Pic Mr fox i love not only your sense of humor but your ability the draw images that your readers can really identify with, thanks for posting it, it's a fave
--Rick
That being said...
Great Pic Mr fox i love not only your sense of humor but your ability the draw images that your readers can really identify with, thanks for posting it, it's a fave
--Rick
where is the proof of your statement of these people seeing him? (if you try and site the "bible" you are just using fiction to support your statement) where is the corroborating evidence my friend? the romans were meticulous recored keepers and to my knowledge there have been no supporting documentation for that event to ever surface.. but not being a christian, i do not take that book to be anything more than interesting collection if contradicting storys. i will not go into the wiki listing of it, other than to mention First Council of Nicaea, held in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey), convoked by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in 325 decreed that "Easter" shall fall on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. another invention of the early church to assimilate the"pagans"
--Rick
Please note, no offense was intended toward any christian furrys
--Rick
Please note, no offense was intended toward any christian furrys
Flavius Josephus (AD 37?-101?) mentions Jesus - Antiquities, Book 18, ch. 3, par. 3.
1. Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, (9) those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; (10) as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
http://www.carm.org/bible/extrabibl.....l_accounts.htm
You call the Bible fiction, yet not expect to offend any Christian furries? I say good day, sir.
But steamfox, thank you again for including the true message of Easter in this picture. =3
1. Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, (9) those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; (10) as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
http://www.carm.org/bible/extrabibl.....l_accounts.htm
You call the Bible fiction, yet not expect to offend any Christian furries? I say good day, sir.
But steamfox, thank you again for including the true message of Easter in this picture. =3
please don't concider this a personal attack for it is not intended as one, just wondering of you also hold the scriptures of other groups in as high regard like the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran the Upanishads. The Tripitaka of the buddests the Purãns of the Sikh's or is the bible the only valid book on spiritual truth? if so, which version, there are so many to choose from? or do you read the bible in it's original Aramaic Scriptures? just curious. you may find this link of interest
http://www.v-a.com/bible/confession.html
--Rick
http://www.v-a.com/bible/confession.html
--Rick
I prefer the Douay-Rheims myself.
The setting of Easter has one thing only to do with the Spring Equinox. The Jewish celebration of Passover was tied to the Spring Equinox by means of the Lunar Calendar. As the Crucifixion of Christ took place during the Passover, the setting of Easter is determined in part on its setting.
Easter is set as the First Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. Anyone telling you that the Christians put it there to co-opt pagan rites is just plain wrong. It was placed where it was because the Passion - Easter is seen as the fulfillment of the Old Testament Passover. If it is taken from anything, it comes from Judaism!
But, I don't see what is so wrong with Christians reinvesting Christological significance in pagan rituals and making them their own. After all, Christian theologians have long understood that God gave incomplete signs to other cultures apart from Judaism.
People talk about seeing truth in all religions. But when Christians have seen the truth in pagan rituals and shown how they point to Christ and incorporated them or appropriated them, we get excoriated.
So on that point, there is certainly spiritual truth in other religious texts. But they are incomplete without Christ, who is God come to Earth in human form to redeem us. That is what we Christians believe, and have taught for a very long time.
Dominus vobiscum
P.S. Great picture Roy!
The setting of Easter has one thing only to do with the Spring Equinox. The Jewish celebration of Passover was tied to the Spring Equinox by means of the Lunar Calendar. As the Crucifixion of Christ took place during the Passover, the setting of Easter is determined in part on its setting.
Easter is set as the First Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. Anyone telling you that the Christians put it there to co-opt pagan rites is just plain wrong. It was placed where it was because the Passion - Easter is seen as the fulfillment of the Old Testament Passover. If it is taken from anything, it comes from Judaism!
But, I don't see what is so wrong with Christians reinvesting Christological significance in pagan rituals and making them their own. After all, Christian theologians have long understood that God gave incomplete signs to other cultures apart from Judaism.
People talk about seeing truth in all religions. But when Christians have seen the truth in pagan rituals and shown how they point to Christ and incorporated them or appropriated them, we get excoriated.
So on that point, there is certainly spiritual truth in other religious texts. But they are incomplete without Christ, who is God come to Earth in human form to redeem us. That is what we Christians believe, and have taught for a very long time.
Dominus vobiscum
P.S. Great picture Roy!
heh, funny little artistic rant about what we all know will be nothign but a sales opportunity in a couple generations. I saw christmas stuff cluttering the supermarkets by end of october...
that roller has somehow a look of a custom hot rod to it. if the rabbit were oversized, the engine a fire-blazing V-8, and the rabbit holding a gearshift too long to fit into the cabin my first thought would have been, "Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth lives!" XD
poor leprechauns, someone should have told them that the rollers are marching in. :)
that roller has somehow a look of a custom hot rod to it. if the rabbit were oversized, the engine a fire-blazing V-8, and the rabbit holding a gearshift too long to fit into the cabin my first thought would have been, "Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth lives!" XD
poor leprechauns, someone should have told them that the rollers are marching in. :)
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