Are you going to an Easter church service tomorrow? Do you even bother celebrating Easter? What's your whole opinion on Easter?

This may surprise some people, but I'm going to an Easter church service tomorrow. I have two really conservative Christian minister parents and they've forced me to go to church with them ever since I told them about converting to Islam (that means not only am I going to Easter service tomorrow, but I went to Good Friday service, and Maundy Thursday service [they're Lutherans]).
In Islam, we're only supposed to celebrate the Islamic Eids, and no other holidays, so if I were living on my own, I wouldn't be celebrating Easter.
But, there is one positive, today I went shopping for new easter clothes (and it's cool, because I bought clothes I can wear at other times, and I got a new scarf!)
And if you celebrate Easter, do you wear fancy Easter clothes for church?

Yep, we're having an Easter Sunday breakfast tomorrow in lieu of first-service, and Dad'll be preaching his Easter service. Sadly, more people show up when food is offered.

We don't do the eggs, and no chocolate bunnies or anything like that, as Dad says they harken back too much to pagan ritual.
As for fancy Easter clothes, I'm not sure what you mean by that, as clothes are just clothes, but I suppose I will wear nicer things in particular tomorrow.

I don't do Easter. In fact, this year I'm downright aainst Easter and I hate how people keep wishing me "Happy Easter."

@LazyKat
Yeah, some people seem to only show up at church for Christmas and Easter.

And yeah, I'm really just talking about nicer things. But in some churches, ladies like to wear fancier dresses, or they'll start wearing pink or yellow, or where they might normally wear pants they'll wear a dress or a skirt. That's what I'm talking about. People seem to dress nicer for Easter service.

@Jayms_fallen_angel
I'm with you there!
Except in my case, I have to grin and bear it (I'm with my grandmother and my parents don't want her knowing that I'm a Muslim,long story, but yeah, I need to look supportive of Easter and stuff, just like I would've been last year.)
Oh, and why are you against it?
I'm against it because Islam prohibits the celebration of non-Islamic holidays.

We absolutely celebrate Easter. I am not sure we are going to be able to go to church if it keeps on snowing as hard as it is though. However if we go I am going to wear appropriate attire. I think to do so is a sign of respect.

I think regardless what you celebrate or don't, you should definitely respect everyone else's right to their own choices the same way you would want them to respect yours. Also if someone wishes you something for a holiday you don't observe you should just take it in the spirit it's intended. People are wishing you well because they like you and want to share their happiness brought on by the holiday, and that's a positive thing regardless. :D

@Blondheart
How would you define appropriate attire? Do you have anything planned to wear?
(I'm going to wear a long brown skirt, with a really fancy cream ruffled top, a brown sweater with that, and my new scarf tied as a headband [due again to my parents not wanting my grandmother to know that I'm a Muslim].)

Oh yeah, for sure.
That's a good way to look at it.

I don't do Easter, I do Passover. But I still get chocolates and stuffs, and candy easter eggs. :wink:

When I was younger I'd hunt for eggs, but it's no fun anymore. I know all my parent's hiding spots. 8)

I will wear a dress, or maybe pants if it's too cold. I didn't buy anything new. I define it as clean and not worn out.

@Easther_Bunni
I love how appropriate your screen-name is for this topic! :D
Oh, okay. Yeah, that's one thing I love about easter. I just can't get enough chocolate!

@Blondheart
Oh, okay. That's a nice laid-back definition.

It's funny you should mention that! I joined Mene during Easter last year, but strangely enough I've had this name for a couple years now, and it was originally based on an inside joke with my friend.
So it's not actually a special easter name or anything. :lol:

My Easter plans involve...buying tickets to a concert, trying not to die from excitement in front of my mom's friends, going on the internet, drilling myself intensely on the Japanese language, and going to work.

Pretty much a normal day except for the concert tickets and my mom's friends. And the concert tickets being released then is a coincidence.

I'm not really big on Easter. I'm not from a particularly religious family...so all it's ever really been about to me is candy. And...I don't even like candy anymore, so it's not worth celebrating to me. :/

If I'm celebrating anything, it'll be getting the concert tickets. XD

Oh, and maybe I'll wear bunny ears to work, just for a laugh. Maybe.

Eww... I hate commercial holidays (aka holidays slaughtered by advertisement and trying to give it a new meaning)

I don't bother celebrating holidays except a friend's birthday... cause everything else is overkilled with greed and commercialization.

>.> stupid greedy companies...

The chocolate is good though...
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@Easther_Bunni
Ah, I see.

@Fullmetal Phantom
Oh, yeah, I get that.
You should wear bunny ears, just to be funny.

@Kaze-bear
I definitely know what you mean there! Companies have totally taken over holidays (except Islamic holidays! XD)
Yeah, I think most people can agree on the chocolate!~ ^-^

I hate how everything is so commercialized these days. Like I went to the store in late february, and they already had loads of St Pattys day and Easter stuff. In February!!

@ BahiraMalika - Oh yeah xD I plan on doing LOTS of candy shopping for my love that day xD (she loves chocolate, and hopefully she'll be happy to get some ^^)

^^" I don't even know what the Islamic holidays are... >.<

I really don't celebrate holidays the way that it should be celebrated. I think that if you make a holiday your own, it kinda makes it traditional. So, it may be about Jesus, however... to me, it's just about spending time with my family. xD; If that makes sense? My mom isn't very religious, while my dad is. So, it's kinda.. eh. xP

I am going to church services and the family Easter gatherings today out of respect for my mother's worry and a desire to spend time with her. Normally the only time I see her is when she comes by to take me grocery shopping (I don't drive, and my town has no public transportation aside from taxi service) or drop something off, and she's not much of a phone person.

Clothing-wise, I will be dressing up but only with clothes I already own, save for my new flats. My old ones fell apart. :(

I am most likely I am not going to a church service.

I have no idea what I am going to do today...

I'm atheist so I don't celebrate any religious holiday. I don't really see the point in celebrating something I don't believe in.

of course... you HAVE to wear VERY fancy clothes for easter mass. It's the type of event to wear a dress for ^^

nah, I'm not a religious person. I have never gone to church on easter.
there is other kind of traditions here on Easter, but I'm too old for them now xP so I'll just eat some chocolate eggs ^^

My husband and I are going to watch "The Passion of the Christ" on Easter. Other than that, we don't celebrate Easter.

I don't want to get into a huge philosophical or theological debate, but the fact is that Easter is just one of many Pagan holidays that the Catholic Church absorbed (It was "Ester's Day", Ester being the Goddess of birth and re-birth). The whole thing with the eggs is that monks used to roll eggs through the fields to ensure a healthy crop that year. The thing with the bunny is: 1. It's Ester's symbol; 2. Bunnies tend to procreate rapidly, thus furthering the idea of 'birth'.

As Openly Born-Again Christians, we prefer to celebrate the life of Jesus, not his death.

We do celebrate Passover with his family each year, though. His dad is a Minister, and says that nowhere in the Bible does it say to stop celebrating Passover. In fact, The Last Supper was the Passover meal.

I do miss the Easter Baskets and chocolate, though :( LOL (I loved colouring eggs and hiding them over and over again with my brothers to see who could hide them the best >.<)

I hope everyone has an enjoyable Easter, which ever way you decide to spend the day :3

As with most Christian holidays, my family usually celebrates it as a time of gathering and enjoying each others' company. However, I am at school and so, I'll have my own little celebration here I guess ^^;

Lol, I just got yelled at for skipping church.

I hate Easter. It's the worst 'holiday'.

I m Pagan, while I don't celebrate easter I do celebrate Ostara. Its very similar holiday to easter, as its held on the vernal equinox. Its from an older religion and we don't wait until Sunday to worship, since for us its not about jesus rising in three days from death. It's about spring and the soil of mother earth becoming fertile with life again. For us it was on March 20th-21 this year.

The egg and Rabbit are our symbols of our goddess' fertility. I thinks they have become popular in connection to easter and Christians because before Christianity almost all white people were some form of paganism. I think it's good that the Eggs and Rabbit have found there way into Christan culture even if it is threw secular means and they don't think of it as being from a goddess. It's like a meeting of old and new religions.

It Seems a lot of younger people are turning to either Atheism or other religions aside from Christianity lately. I Was Raised both Roman Christan and Pagan by my grandmother because during her days they weren't allowed to be pagan with out facing Social consequences. From an early age though I was taught that other people don't pray the same way we do and that we have to accept them. It's a hard thing to do when a lot of those people wouldn't think twice about calling us names.

Heres a sample of what an Ostara altar looks like if anyone has curious:

http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaga...-cronewynd.jpg