£1 large easter eggs Asda

Violetta_2

Dustangle wrote: »

Extraordinary, almost wilful ignorance, mixed with sickening sentimentality. Children will not go to Hell for eating chocolate Easter eggs, cheap or other.

Dustangle wrote: »

Easter is the most important and significant event in the Christian year, and these sweeties, cheap or otherwise, have no relevance to the story of Jesus Christ's resurrection. Certainly children will learn nothing from the experience of cramming their faces with chocolate other that maybe they will end up being a bit sick. Parents who genuinely love their children will think twice before indulging them with these meaningless sweets. Sure, you're saving a few pence on chocolate sweets, but are you sending your children to Hell?

Actually you know what I'm flabbergasted but hey I'm just an ignorant heathen so

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easter65

A Thread all about me....:j:j:j:j

young_victor_meldrew

"You are sending your children to hell" - How very christian! - I wonder which church this chap attends? The Church of No Fun? What utter poppycock! As a child the church I had no choice about attending used to put on a massive Easter Egg hunt for the youngsters with prizes of massive Easter Eggs for any child who found an plastic egg that had been hidden in the Garden area - and surprise surprise there were enough eggs hidden for ALL of us to take home a choccy treat.

So by your calculation the church has condemmed me to hell by default? Great!

And theres me thinking I had secured my place in heaven :A

Dustangle

young_victor_meldrew wrote: »

So by your calculation the church has condemmed me to hell by default? Great! And theres me thinking I had secured my place in heaven

Well you haven't secured your place in heaven, as you should know if you had been paying attention at the church you went to. And where did you get the idea that the church, which ever one you choose, has the power to "condemn you to hell by default?"

My point, which I will repeat again, was not that children will go to Hell for eating cheap Easter eggs. It was that the unthinking pursuit of these sweets, with no regard to the significance of the Easter message, is very wrong. There is a significance, as no doubt the people at the Church you attended will have striven mightily to have taught you. The lesson seems to have passed you by. There is probably a message there for them, that teaching that Easter is primarily about chocolate treats rather that the sacrifice by God of his only son so we might live, was perhaps a mistake.

It isn't complicated. If you are simply deliberately misunderstanding what I have said, then stop it and start working it out. If you really don't get it, then look for advice from people who do understand these things. You probably won't find them on the internet, or in a mega corporation like Tesco or ASDA.


Edited to add - I just noticed that you work in marketing; the science of causing people to covet products that they don't really need at prices they can only just not afford.

Roger_Rampant

or maybe the majority of people in the UK simply don't believe in God...

Dustangle

Roger_Rampant wrote: »

or maybe the majority of people in the UK simply don't believe in God...

If that's the case, why would they be upset by anything I might say?

I suspect that the majority of people in the UK do have belief, but live such comfortable and secure lives that they only have to address such matters when they become gravely ill. Someone said there's no such thing as an atheist in the trenches, and these days most Brits contract that sort of thing out.

But for most people, belief, or even participation in culture, is constrained by lack of knowledge. The ignorance of the significance of Easter, even as a cultural phenomenon never mind an article of faith, is widespread, as is the lack of basic knowledge of the tenets of religion. Instead, we see a sentimental adherence to a made up form of religion based on half remembered ideas and misunderstanding of what people have seen on the telly. This made up religion probably prescribes that if you're nice and don't get caught stealing or cheating too much, and you recycle when you remember and buy those new shopping bags, you'll go to heaven, which will probably be like Saturday night telly with lots of chocolate. There probably was a hell, but that ended in about 1970.

Dustangle

Violetta wrote: »

Actually you know what I'm flabbergasted but hey I'm just an ignorant heathen

In which case you won't be afraid to do a bit of studying, to learn more about that which you affect to despise.

roddydogs

Easter is still nearly 2 months away........Eggs sold now for £1 will mostly be eaten by then..........whats the betting they wont be £1 in the 2 weeks before Easter?

Degeneratemoo

Are there any dark chocolate eggs for £1?

Violetta_2

Dustangle wrote: »

In which case you won't be afraid to do a bit of studying, to learn more about that which you affect to despise.

I am sorry you are getting so upset about these £1 easter eggs, I am also sorry that you think I affect to despise anything (apart from intolerance to others).
I bought these egg's as I bought an exact same mug a year and a half ago and it cost me over £2 , so as the shops stick some chocolate in it and promoted it at a price of £1 I thought I would SAVE SOME MONEY I apologise if saving money is offensive to you.
But you are the one who speaks about people not genuinely loving their children, children going to hell. I find that's offensive.
I do know the STORY behind easter eggs and the Jesus guy in a cave etc but I don't believe it, I don't think that makes me a bad person, do you?