Do vegans celebrate Easter?!
Do vegans celebrate Easter?
I think they would have Easter tofu
Answers:
Vegan Catholic here.
Of course we celebrate Easter. I assume your comment is with regard to coloring eggs and not the actual celebration.
Let me clarify a few things for you. The term Easter is a corruption of the Latin name Festa Paschalia. Festa means feast. Paschalia is a Latinization of the Hebrew word for Passover.
So Easter, Feast of the Passover, is actually Thursday. The day of the Last Supper. The "Easter Tridium" celebrated by Catholics world wide is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Saturday evening is a vigil where we gather in churches by candle light to await the risen lord.
Dominica Resurrectionis is the official term for Sunday's celebration. Ressurection of the Lord.
But since our mother the church is not stuffy, she let's her children call it Easter.
What child doesn't mispronounce things? And what poor relative hasn't gotten saddled forever with a name mispronounced by some child?
Where do the eggs come from? I see by a lot of the responses folks are still under the impression that Easter Eggs are of pagan origin. I would have thought the popularity of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" would have straightened that issue out.
There is a very old story of the evangelizing efforts of Mary Magdalene. She's very popular these days. While having dinner with the Roman emperor who up to that point denied the risen Christ, Mary Magdalene proclaimed "Surely Christ is risen." she cupped an egg between her hands and stated "If it be so, may this egg turn red in my hand." Which it did.
Our Greek brothers and sisters still give out red eggs and proclaim Christus Ressurexit. Christ is Risen.
However the rest of us silly goobs have been taken over. You see, the mass market stepped in and developed all the shiny pretty colors.
While vegans don't eat eggs, there are always the plastic ones.
Easter is a religious holiday.
Veganism is a dietary way of life.
Vegans still are religious so they would celebrate. I wonder if they would use coloring on their tofu?
I'm vegan and I don't celebrate that holiday. Eggs are gross.
Why wouldn't they? Easter is not all about the food. I plan on having a wonderful vegetarian meal for Easter and it won't contain a single speck of tofu or soy. What a silly question
Why wouldn't they...
Easter is a religious festival, not a dietary one...
Easter is a religious thing. the only dietary aspect of the holiday would be good Friday when you aren't supposed to eat meat, so that wouldn't have any effects on a vegan cause they dont eat meat/animal produce anyway.
I sure do! I also celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. My veggie lifestlye does not pohibit me from celebrating the holidays!
I am sure they do, if they are religious... but I have always wondered with what they substitute the turkey for Thanksgiving... or maybe only eat the stuffing?
Whats with you and these vegans....
forget them... now go get the Ham...
Easter will be here soon!!!!!!!
Christian vegans do.
I don't. But then I am Buddhists.
It shouldn't make a difference for
Christian vegans since you can make
your own form of easter egg without
any animal by-products.
Also you should note that a lot of
fundamentalists non-vegans do not
participate in the commercial aspect
of Easter or other " Holy holidays"
because many of the traditions like
Christmas trees and Easter eggs
are actually pagan in origin.
I imagine that vegans who are Christian celebrate Easter along with other Christians. I'm guessing that vegans who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist or Hindu probably don't. As for vegans who are agnostic or atheist, they either don't bother or they get chocolate and hot-cross buns made with soy milk.
Haha Maybe if they are Christian...
Your too funny with that pic of your granny.. I am gonna tell her!! And you'd better get your sister and your brother in law off your blog subject or else your gonna be LONELY this Easter.... Ha
I've hinted to my parents to buy me a vegan easter egg. Im not really going to celebrate it though. Just eat chocolate :)
Anyone who believes that Christ rose from the dead after being crucified (etc etc etc) will celebrate Easter. It is a religious holiday, not a dietary one. Vegans as a whole don't celebrate it, just like every omni doesn't. I can see the confusion because of all of the non-veg Easter foods, though. We don't die eggs, eat Marshmallow Peeps (they have gelatin), etc, but this vegan wakes up Easter morning to a big basket of jelly beans and red hots before she goes on her plastic egg hunt and puts on her non-leather shoes to go to church. I'm not sure how dyed tofu would turn out, but it would be a good addition to Easter dinner!