[DMB] I think "My Sweet Lord" is hilarious and it doesn't make fun of Christianity so much as it pokes fun at our ridiculous way of celebrating Easter.
[Arlo] Easter is simply the Christian variant of Spring Equinox (Fertility... "rabbit", chocolate is a recent add-on, likely because of its association with sexuality) celebrations, and as such adopted many of the pagan rituals as Europe was "Christianized". The same thing happened with Christmas, which was the Winter Solstice celebration. (Halloween, which does not have a specific Christian counterpart but is widely celebrated in the America, is a Fall Equinox celebration.) More than simply a take on the strange way Christians celebrate the resurrection of their prophet, it represents the universal solar origins of this holiday, and the borrowing that occurred as pagans were forced into the flock. Using chocolate, I suppose, emphasizes the sexuality-fertility connection to the holiday, something that has long since been lost on a congregation with no grasp of its historical origins. Another possible connection, the chocolate represents the transition of "religion" from esoteric spirituality to exoteric object of consumption (where we smack our lips on the idol but make no effort to understand the parable). moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
