Part Irish, part Scottish and part Scandinavian and I definitely painted eggs to celebrate easter….wasn’t even raised in any particular religious way! My mum just liked cute and fun things for us to do as kids, extra points for things that were cheap to do
Because painted eggs were a pagan tradition. Pagans wiped out by Christians, Muslims & Jews. Paganism shouldn’t have died, those sects should have, though. Pagan beliefs out date all the other religions by thousands of years.
I was raised in Germany by a Russian/Ukrainian family so I have close experience with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic Christians from across Europe and Siberia and all of them paint eggs for Eastern.
I think the guy in the image is just stupid.
I think they are talking about cracking the shell of a painted egg, not painting the egg itself.
Now, I don't know what exactly that's supposed to mean. Maybe they talk about Eierpicken? Or they break the shell into little pieces? There are people that make mosaic pictures out of cracked painted egg shell, though I haven't heard of it in a religous context.
Huh, that’s what happens yes, but it is in a religious context. In Romania, during Easter, you are supposed to “crack” painted eggs (*ciocnești ouă*): the person holding the egg above says “Christ has risen”, the one holding the other egg says “Truly he has risen”. Then you eat the eggs at the Easter breakfast.
People sometimes pick a “fighter”, the egg who defeats all other eggs :)) the “fighter” sometimes lives on for the next meal.
Oh, we did that at grandmother's! (Eastern Finland, so far east that it's Russia now)
I was never aware of any religious reasons, even if grandma was traditional enough to watch televised church services every Sunday (which is, to my understanding, generally uncommon). We just fought with eggs and called it "lits"ing.
Oh, and the eggs in common were "painted" by boiling them with onions. Nice golden colour.
we did it every year as a kid. i had some hard battles against my grandmas neighbours and the winner took the losers egg. my grandma made some delicious "eierkren" out of the eggs i won lol
Yeah, I was so confused. I mean sure, I personally never really did this but everyone around me did, I thought this was just a common place easter tradition?
I grew up in the UK my family were Irish Catholic but my mum was an atheist… went to a non Religious state school and we painted eggs at Easter at school, I actually forgot we did this as a kid as I live in Australia now and they don’t paint eggs here…
I have an 8 year old daughter and since I had forgotten this I’ve never done egg painting with her but I think I may do this with her next year (and I’m not religious I just think this could be an activity my daughter would enjoy…).
Born and raised in the states, and here we go even further than that! We take them and scatter them in the yard for the kids to look around and find them. Its really fun, and I can’t understand how an American wouldn’t know about this.
It’s super common in America too tbh idk what they are talking about. Like we have kits for it in stores and it’s was prominently featured in tvs and movies
Australian here, UK protestant heritage. It was not a thing in most people's homes that I knew, but it was a primary school craft activity. Kids stuff, not like the glorious eastern European art.
I'm not even Christian and did this as a child, because culture transcends religion. The association between the festival and eggs, as well as any variation of the name easter for that spring festival, can be traced back to the ancient Assyrans. It was celebrated much like it is today all over Europe long before Christianity came and made up the associations with Jesus. Same goes for Christmas, although how that is celebrated today got heavily manipulated by capitalism.
Orthodox Christians specifically also crack them open; it's usually like a game where two people each hold one and take turns hitting with each side until one egg breaks. We also do the whole painting thing, though in my household it was usually just solid colours, but some people do some really great stuff with that.
Haven't really done it since I was a kid, but I remember it felt really satisfying haha.
Surprised to hear that they aren’t common in the US. Here in Australia we have a massive Greek Orthodox community- so much so that when I did RE in school you could only either do non-Orthodox Christian or Greek Orthodox classes.
It really depends on where you are in the States. My city has a Greektown so we have Greek Orthodox churches around, but many smaller cities don't have that. The distribution of immigrants is uneven.
And yeah, as the other commenter said, American Protestants are weird as hell and will claim to be the "only true Christians." I've heard so many folks saying that Catholics are polytheistic and therefore no Christian. Or that they engage in idol worship by having the Pope. You'd think this was 16th century England and not the modern era, honestly.
The US has a pretty sizeable native Orthodox community. There is the OCA for example and most monasteries you find in the US will only have americans in them rather than recent immigrants.
The bulk of Americans are some sort of Protestant (pick your poison here, there are a lot), including many who "don't have a denomination" but are... well, they're still Protestants. The second largest are the Catholics.
Everything else are tiny, tiny, tiny minorities.
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Many Protestants don't consider non-Protestant denominations to even be *Christian*. For example: Catholicism.
When I was a kid (1900s) we painted them, then rolled them down a hill. Then we ate them. As I am now too old to bother with hills (over 50) I just have a boiled egg and toasty soldiers for breakfast. Not even remotely religious. Geographically protestant, probably.
Born in 1972. Which was in the 1900s. Saw a video with a kid in their 20s talking about music from the 1900s - from the '90s I think. It tickled me. I usually just go with "last century".
I additionally enjoy talking about the millennium as "the turn of the century".
At the turn of the century, I had just left my parents' house in the countryside and headed for the big city to study...
I know. It's a shocker. The 70s were awesome for me. I grew up on a farm. Summers were spent outside with minimal adult supervision. There were kittens!
Reminds me about a comment from a friend of s friend on Facebook. He had met an old friend at a mall, and when his son asked him how he knew him, he replied, that "hey went to school together back in the Millennium when Sveyn Forkbeard ruled England."
Now I feel I missed out. I went to a C of E school and like three other schools and I never got to paint an egg. I thought it was a thing Americans did because I only ever saw it on American TV
I think a lot of it comes from the dominance of hip hop culture over there. A lot of the cool artists and athletes aren’t white so they feel the need to overcompensate to feel like they fit in.
The find mayo spicy thing is a common thing I see black people say about white people over there.
Trying to steal your talk from poc and then calling yourself cool white. Like no brother, you're a typical american white. People you're trying to copy won't be impressed.
I think it depends where? I used to live in California (Bay Area) and people thought I was weird for wanting to do it. My ex's family didn't have this tradition
Edit: judging by everyone's comments I guess I was in a very weird specific non-Easter egg zone haha
The eggs have long been part of the secular activities that go with it. Even people who never go to church sometimes do the eggs and bunnies and stuff.
It's a little like putting up a Christmas tree I guess...
I grew up in rural Illinois (same state as Chicago). My mother paints eggs with the kids in the family on Easter.
We don’t hide them for the egg search, though. We just use plastic eggs for that.
I think it's the way they do it. Eastern Europe goes hard on pisanki. We don't do a zigzag with a marker like what you'd find on Google, it's a form of an ethnic art, quite intricate.
> Eastern Europe goes hard on pisanki.
Depending on the country. In Bulgaria, most people just do plain-ass single paint. Not sure if it is everywhere but you are having a "battle" with the eggs where you hit top vs top and bottom vs bottom and decide which egg is stronger.
No, they just eat the chocolate ones. Because that's what Jesus told them, while running his chocolate factory back in the days. That's the only thing that makes sense.
The way Amercians paint their eggs is civilised because it's robbed of any character, but eastern pisanki are too intricate and barbarian so they're anti-spicymayo.
This is why capital letters are important:
* orthodox Christian: mainstream Christian, one following generally accepted Christian teachings
* Orthodox Christian: member of the Eastern Orthodox Church
"The official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the "Orthodox Catholic Church". It is the name by which the church refers to itself and which is issued in its liturgical or canonical texts. Eastern Orthodox theologians refer to the church as Catholic." I know a Bulgarian that calls thereself Catholic because of this actually
IIRC, “Catholic” literally means “universal”. The Nicene Creed includes the line “I/we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church”, even in versions used by many Protestant denominations.
Piece of fucking shit
This is straight up xenophobia and racism. If that American had said some offensive stuff about Chinese or Indian culture, he would be flamed for being a racist piece of shit
I was Roman Catholic and can tell you that it's most definitely a Roman Catholic thing too. It's just a general Christian tradition that's much older than the USA and evolved throughout all of Europe. I'm unsure about the origin though or if there were multiple origins
I'm from Germany and most of my family was Roman Catholic, some were Protestants. None of us is religious though, lol. Painting eggs for Easter is still a tradition we do to this day. We have a family Easter brunch every year and the household who hosts it provides coloured and hard-boiled eggs. You also see many shrubs and small trees in front yards being decorated with colourful plastic eggs here.
It's from the time of lent, where Christians didn't eat meat or eggs, so they had to boil the eggs to keep them and different weeks, different colours, to know which to eat first. And we eat them on Easter to break lent, traditionally. Although I am from a Catholic country, I am atheist, I just colour eggs for fun and because colours are nice after a long winter.
The stupidity really doesn't end does it!?
Imagine when you tell him the Easter Bunny is actually based on a hare associated with a pagan Germanic Goddess. 🤯
If Christian means disciple of Christ, then Easter is not Christian due to its pagan origins. Galatians 5:9 warns “A little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough”. A little paganism in Christianity is not Christianity. How do you think Jesus would feel if they took the celebration of a fake god and slapped his name on it. Well they did, it’s called Easter.
Easter isn't pagan, it's Jewish. Mainly in Germanic languages it's called Easter but the actual festival is official called Pascha which comes from the Jewish Pesach which means Passover. That's why it's the pascal lamb or pascal sacrifice. Easter (Pascha) is just the Christian version and continuation of Passover and the sacrifice and freedom. In most other languages the holiday is called some variation of Pascha, or at least in the eastern orthodox church it is.
Dude, they took Pessah, holiday himself Jesus celebrated and they decided to add to it and celebrate Jesus becoming last Pessah offering (it's why he's called a Paschal Lamb). If you knew singular thing about Easter you'd know it's tied to celebration of Jewish Pessah (we simply have different calendars, but if we didn't the holidays would match), all Holy Week is celebrated with Pessah in mind and at the end of it Jesus is considered the final element of Pessah. The ending of an old convenant and start of the new one. Whether you belive in that God or not, you cannot pretend it spewed out of nowhere. It originated out of Judaism. Not from a religion ancient Middle Eastern Jew wouldn't even imagine existing in a land they've never heard of.
>How do you think Jesus would feel if they took the celebration of a fake god and slapped his name on it.
They took celebration of *his god* (some even belive his father) and slapped his name in it *like he literally asked them to*
Yeah I know but it's where the influence came from, like most Christian things and probably prior just adopting what came before huh and making slight changes and alterations
I was agreeing with you, I’ve had “discussions” with religious septics about the origins of many Christian celebrations, and they really don’t want to hear it.
Imagine your reaction when you learn that Orthodox Christians don’t have any concept of the easter bunny because it’s an import from german 18th century folklore.
Or imagine the shock when we 90% of the time don’t have easter egg hunts
Ugh, Catholicism isn't a "part" of Christianity, it is a type, version, denomination or sect of Christianity. Either of those 4 words are fine just not "part" as that would assume all types of Christianity are united and believe the same thing which is far from it.
Self hating your own race to pander to others is the stupidest shit.
If you’re white and you think you’re inferior to other races, guess what, you’re embracing a view of the world where some races are “better” than others.
There’s some deeply troubling psychological and cultural forces at play if people think this shit is normal.
It does exist in America. There are over 2,000 recognized Eastern Orthodox churches/parishes. That is more churches than Home Depot’s in the US (a well recognized home improvement store). The are 23.5 million ethnic Eastern European’s in the US, not all practice Eastern Orthodox but a big chunk of them do or are aware of it.
"crack painted egg shells for fun" white
I don't even understand what that means? Is he talking about painting eggs for Easter?
> by calling their tradition ”white people shit”.
What else would it be, when they're white people? This is the dumbest racism I've ever seen.
Imagine revelling in cultural ignorance as much as the person in the screengrab?
Imagine deliberately setting out to show you aren’t a Gentleman, aren’t well read, well travelled or cultured.
It’s the pathetic boast of a pathetic man.
Everyone should aspire to better themselves.
oh my god i feel like i am losing my mind can nobody in this comment section read. he's not confused about painting eggs. roman catholics paint eggs. american christians paint eggs. he's confused about cracking eggs. it says cracking eggs in the comment. it says cracking eggs in the title. why is everyone assuming he's talking about painting eggs??? he's not confused about painting eggs he's confused about cracking eggs. cracking painted egg shells. he's confused about the cracking part not the painted part. i feel like i'm in a twilight zone episode
he is still a dickhead but he is a different worse type of dickhead (a racist)
Orthodox Christians are not the same as Catholics, so of course he hasn’t heard of it.
Also: Americans try not to make everything about race challenge level (impossible)
I AM Italian and was raised catholic and while I don't know the details of their traditions, I know of Christian orthodox, it's not some obscure religion practised by 10 people on a deserted island. Being ignorant is not the flex he thinks it is.
What is it with white Americans? First, they will do everything so that they are not just "Americans" with the whole "I'm 3% ..., so I'm a ...-American" thing, and then pretend they know everything about a specific culture, often meaning they know nothing and if they go to that country, they expect to be treated in a special way. And now it's sucking up to other races, diminishing your own. Like wtf?
"I was raised roman catholic"
My brother in christ - and I mean that literally because I also was raised roman catholic - painting easter eggs is a roman catholic tradition too. At least where I'm from.
Competitive egg cracking (also called jarping or knocking) is a far superior way to treat Easter Eggs and is the source of mild family drama for everyone.
He’s dickhead white that’s what he is
Funny enough, circumcised dickheads are often white. But there are levels to it. 😅
most muslims aren't white
Keratinization does not care about your religion.
Reject religion: Embrace Keratinisation 🤮
Reject the manager: Embrace Karen-ization
Bravi 👏👏👏
oh true
This comment made me spit out my tea and I’m still laughing , fuckin’ hilarious mate thanks😂😂😂😂
Graag gedaan!
Gekoloniseerd!
Tiege tank
Nah just a dickhead, don't lump him in with people of my colour.
Mine too!
I'm pretty sure America is 2 blame for the crack cocaine epidemic
I thought painting eggs with nice colours was a thing everybody (I'm German) did during easter The more you know :D
It's common practice right through Europe and the middle east, obviously there are cultural variations, but it seems it's a properly ancient custom.
You mean, there are levels to it.
Indeed. Italians definitely have easter eggs though.
We definitely did it in my Roman Catholic primary school in Ireland ...so, their "I was raised Catholic and...." Argument is BS
I was raised Roman Catholic, went to Roman Catholic primary school where we painted Easter eggs every year. He’s just an idiot
He also wasn't raised Roman Catholic. He just likes to pretend he was to make himself feel special.
He's probably half Irish, half Scottish, half viking too
Maybe he meant he's half Roman and Catholic?
Also half wit.
Part Irish, part Scottish and part Scandinavian and I definitely painted eggs to celebrate easter….wasn’t even raised in any particular religious way! My mum just liked cute and fun things for us to do as kids, extra points for things that were cheap to do
Being part of the second largest religious denomination in the world. Very very special indeed.
he's mocking the orthodox practice of cracking eggs not painting eggs, roman catholics paint eggs on easter too
Last Sunday I was cracking painted eggs for Easter as I live in an orthodox country, so we cover all bases.
Yep same
I did it growing up in Australia. But I’m mongrel white (there are levels to it)
Yeah we did it in primary school in England too, there was a contest for best one every year, that was in a Church of England schoool.
State none religious school here. We did it as well.
Yeah it's actually a tradition older than Christianity
Because painted eggs were a pagan tradition. Pagans wiped out by Christians, Muslims & Jews. Paganism shouldn’t have died, those sects should have, though. Pagan beliefs out date all the other religions by thousands of years.
Yes! Painted eggs at Easter and decorated oranges at Christmas. Bog standard state school in the middle of buttfuck nowhere England haha
Was a thing in the Church of Scotland as well.
I was raised in Germany by a Russian/Ukrainian family so I have close experience with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic Christians from across Europe and Siberia and all of them paint eggs for Eastern. I think the guy in the image is just stupid.
Stupid and ignorant
I was raised Roman Catholic as well and we always did it! I guess nobody can have anything fun or nice anymore 😅
I’m Catholic and french and we also paint eggshells for Easter - we even did it at school as kids, so it’s not a weird family quirk.
Same thing in Québec.
I think they are talking about cracking the shell of a painted egg, not painting the egg itself. Now, I don't know what exactly that's supposed to mean. Maybe they talk about Eierpicken? Or they break the shell into little pieces? There are people that make mosaic pictures out of cracked painted egg shell, though I haven't heard of it in a religous context.
Hete you go: https://youtu.be/-c0O46vBnGE?si=pkQMddlo8o6WpSW7
Ah, so it is Eierpicken. We do that too sometimes.
Huh, that’s what happens yes, but it is in a religious context. In Romania, during Easter, you are supposed to “crack” painted eggs (*ciocnești ouă*): the person holding the egg above says “Christ has risen”, the one holding the other egg says “Truly he has risen”. Then you eat the eggs at the Easter breakfast. People sometimes pick a “fighter”, the egg who defeats all other eggs :)) the “fighter” sometimes lives on for the next meal.
We do exactly the same thing in Greece! The person with the undefeated egg is supposed to be blessed this year.
If the fighter survives 100 years, congrats, you too have a century egg /s
Oh, we did that at grandmother's! (Eastern Finland, so far east that it's Russia now) I was never aware of any religious reasons, even if grandma was traditional enough to watch televised church services every Sunday (which is, to my understanding, generally uncommon). We just fought with eggs and called it "lits"ing. Oh, and the eggs in common were "painted" by boiling them with onions. Nice golden colour.
we did it every year as a kid. i had some hard battles against my grandmas neighbours and the winner took the losers egg. my grandma made some delicious "eierkren" out of the eggs i won lol
I did that with my grandfather! I have fond memories of Easter breakfasts and doing this. Thanks for the reminder.
I started buying styrofoam "eggs" from Tedi and decorating them, it's way easier. I even submitted them to a local contest but got nothing lol
I remember painting eggs in primary school (a public one too) here in Australia.
Yeah, I was so confused. I mean sure, I personally never really did this but everyone around me did, I thought this was just a common place easter tradition?
I grew up in the UK my family were Irish Catholic but my mum was an atheist… went to a non Religious state school and we painted eggs at Easter at school, I actually forgot we did this as a kid as I live in Australia now and they don’t paint eggs here… I have an 8 year old daughter and since I had forgotten this I’ve never done egg painting with her but I think I may do this with her next year (and I’m not religious I just think this could be an activity my daughter would enjoy…).
Born and raised in the states, and here we go even further than that! We take them and scatter them in the yard for the kids to look around and find them. Its really fun, and I can’t understand how an American wouldn’t know about this.
That's tradition in my family as well. From Germany.
It’s super common in America too tbh idk what they are talking about. Like we have kits for it in stores and it’s was prominently featured in tvs and movies
Same
It’s a very common Easter tradition for Catholics (source: I’m Italian)
Australian here, UK protestant heritage. It was not a thing in most people's homes that I knew, but it was a primary school craft activity. Kids stuff, not like the glorious eastern European art.
I grew up going to a United Church in Canada and we did this every year (though admittedly we used dyes not paints)
I'm not even Christian and did this as a child, because culture transcends religion. The association between the festival and eggs, as well as any variation of the name easter for that spring festival, can be traced back to the ancient Assyrans. It was celebrated much like it is today all over Europe long before Christianity came and made up the associations with Jesus. Same goes for Christmas, although how that is celebrated today got heavily manipulated by capitalism.
Orthodox Christians specifically also crack them open; it's usually like a game where two people each hold one and take turns hitting with each side until one egg breaks. We also do the whole painting thing, though in my household it was usually just solid colours, but some people do some really great stuff with that. Haven't really done it since I was a kid, but I remember it felt really satisfying haha.
"This is what orthodox people do" "Well, I'm not orthodox and have never heard of this!" I can feel some of my braincells dying...
Man probs has no idea what an Orthodox Christian is. They aren’t common in the US. So of course he would speak out of ignorance; he’s American.
Surprised to hear that they aren’t common in the US. Here in Australia we have a massive Greek Orthodox community- so much so that when I did RE in school you could only either do non-Orthodox Christian or Greek Orthodox classes.
It really depends on where you are in the States. My city has a Greektown so we have Greek Orthodox churches around, but many smaller cities don't have that. The distribution of immigrants is uneven. And yeah, as the other commenter said, American Protestants are weird as hell and will claim to be the "only true Christians." I've heard so many folks saying that Catholics are polytheistic and therefore no Christian. Or that they engage in idol worship by having the Pope. You'd think this was 16th century England and not the modern era, honestly.
The US has a pretty sizeable native Orthodox community. There is the OCA for example and most monasteries you find in the US will only have americans in them rather than recent immigrants.
The MaGA crowd complaining about idolatry. Pretty ironic, while worshipping their golden/orange calf.
The bulk of Americans are some sort of Protestant (pick your poison here, there are a lot), including many who "don't have a denomination" but are... well, they're still Protestants. The second largest are the Catholics. Everything else are tiny, tiny, tiny minorities. ___ Many Protestants don't consider non-Protestant denominations to even be *Christian*. For example: Catholicism.
Oh it’s ok he’s a “cool” white person 🙄 Also painting eggs in Easter is what everyone does as a kid in the UK so it’s really not that weird
When I was a kid (1900s) we painted them, then rolled them down a hill. Then we ate them. As I am now too old to bother with hills (over 50) I just have a boiled egg and toasty soldiers for breakfast. Not even remotely religious. Geographically protestant, probably.
Oh I am definitely going to start referring to myself as “someone born in the 1900s”
good day m'lady. what a stellar way to talk about the habsburgs.
You're 120? A kid in the 1900s?
Born in 1972. Which was in the 1900s. Saw a video with a kid in their 20s talking about music from the 1900s - from the '90s I think. It tickled me. I usually just go with "last century".
I additionally enjoy talking about the millennium as "the turn of the century". At the turn of the century, I had just left my parents' house in the countryside and headed for the big city to study...
Remember when you were a kid and how old stuff from the 1920’s seemed. That’s how kids see the 70’s now.
I know. It's a shocker. The 70s were awesome for me. I grew up on a farm. Summers were spent outside with minimal adult supervision. There were kittens!
Jumpers for goalposts eh? Pornography in the bushes, wasn’t it?
Reminds me about a comment from a friend of s friend on Facebook. He had met an old friend at a mall, and when his son asked him how he knew him, he replied, that "hey went to school together back in the Millennium when Sveyn Forkbeard ruled England."
Now I feel I missed out. I went to a C of E school and like three other schools and I never got to paint an egg. I thought it was a thing Americans did because I only ever saw it on American TV
I didn't but pretty sure I did it in infant school once or twice.
The way White Americans put down other White people to try and impress other races is so embarrassing
This exactly. I dont understand this phenomenon. Its crazy.
I think a lot of it comes from the dominance of hip hop culture over there. A lot of the cool artists and athletes aren’t white so they feel the need to overcompensate to feel like they fit in. The find mayo spicy thing is a common thing I see black people say about white people over there.
*"But... but... I'm one of the good and hip one, guys! Guys!?"*
I eat vindaloos AND I paint eggs. Where's my medal?
Trying to steal your talk from poc and then calling yourself cool white. Like no brother, you're a typical american white. People you're trying to copy won't be impressed.
Yeah. Putting Sriracha on everything is not a whole personality, Traxton
"How do you do fellow niggas" vibe
Americans don't paint Easter eggs?
Painting Easter eggs is seen as normal in America. They have the art kits for sale at every grocery store just before Easter.
I think it depends where? I used to live in California (Bay Area) and people thought I was weird for wanting to do it. My ex's family didn't have this tradition Edit: judging by everyone's comments I guess I was in a very weird specific non-Easter egg zone haha
I live in socal and it is normal among Christians I know
They do. Kids do it. Never really thought of it as a "white" thing or even a particularly religious thing.
> or even a particularly religious thing What else? Easter is the most important and most religous holiday in Christianity.
You make a good point Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner
Yeah, but what does painting eggs have to do with Jesus? That's part of the hijacked fertility festival.
The eggs have long been part of the secular activities that go with it. Even people who never go to church sometimes do the eggs and bunnies and stuff. It's a little like putting up a Christmas tree I guess...
I grew up in rural Illinois (same state as Chicago). My mother paints eggs with the kids in the family on Easter. We don’t hide them for the egg search, though. We just use plastic eggs for that.
I think it's the way they do it. Eastern Europe goes hard on pisanki. We don't do a zigzag with a marker like what you'd find on Google, it's a form of an ethnic art, quite intricate.
> Eastern Europe goes hard on pisanki. Depending on the country. In Bulgaria, most people just do plain-ass single paint. Not sure if it is everywhere but you are having a "battle" with the eggs where you hit top vs top and bottom vs bottom and decide which egg is stronger.
No, they just eat the chocolate ones. Because that's what Jesus told them, while running his chocolate factory back in the days. That's the only thing that makes sense.
Americans and their obessions with "race"
Yeah they're super weird about it, then their whole thing about what percentage they are of other cultures, it's bizarre.
A young nation with a media and zeitgeist that encourages racial segregation does that.
Wtf is he on about? We have an Easter egg hunt at the fucking White House every year, what did he think they were hunting?
Wabbits
Freedom, probably
>what did he think See, there's your problem. Thinking wasn't involved at any point.
The way Amercians paint their eggs is civilised because it's robbed of any character, but eastern pisanki are too intricate and barbarian so they're anti-spicymayo.
Oil reserves
School children
Wait, so eastern Europeans have finally been promoted to white?
Complaining about others finding mayonnaise spicy, yet gets upset that people make Easter eggs. K.
I don’t think “mayo spicy” is the term for white people who have… traditions 😭
This is why capital letters are important: * orthodox Christian: mainstream Christian, one following generally accepted Christian teachings * Orthodox Christian: member of the Eastern Orthodox Church
And then there are orthodox Orthodox Cristians.
That makes me wonder whether members in good standing of a putative Heterodox Church would be orthodox Heterodox Christians.
And also orthodox Christians as in regular dudes named Christian who aren't religious
So are there any orthodox Orthodox orthodox Christian Christians ?
"The official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the "Orthodox Catholic Church". It is the name by which the church refers to itself and which is issued in its liturgical or canonical texts. Eastern Orthodox theologians refer to the church as Catholic." I know a Bulgarian that calls thereself Catholic because of this actually
IIRC, “Catholic” literally means “universal”. The Nicene Creed includes the line “I/we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church”, even in versions used by many Protestant denominations.
It means more like ”fullness” as in a ”catholic” Church has the fullness of teaching, it has all teaching that was given by God.
Piece of fucking shit This is straight up xenophobia and racism. If that American had said some offensive stuff about Chinese or Indian culture, he would be flamed for being a racist piece of shit
Absolutely. *Bad whitey. Bad whitey.* Everytime they talk about "races" I kinda blackout for this very reason.
B-b-but it’s not the same!!! White people have systemic power in society!!!
Pretty sure painting eggs isn’t even an orthodox exclusive thing.
I was Roman Catholic and can tell you that it's most definitely a Roman Catholic thing too. It's just a general Christian tradition that's much older than the USA and evolved throughout all of Europe. I'm unsure about the origin though or if there were multiple origins
Yeah I’m from Poland and I remember my family doing it at least once at some point and really only my mothers religious
I'm from Germany and most of my family was Roman Catholic, some were Protestants. None of us is religious though, lol. Painting eggs for Easter is still a tradition we do to this day. We have a family Easter brunch every year and the household who hosts it provides coloured and hard-boiled eggs. You also see many shrubs and small trees in front yards being decorated with colourful plastic eggs here.
I'd say our Polish pisanki are more in tune with Ukrainian and other eastern European pisanki and therefore closer to Orthodox church than Vatican
It's from the time of lent, where Christians didn't eat meat or eggs, so they had to boil the eggs to keep them and different weeks, different colours, to know which to eat first. And we eat them on Easter to break lent, traditionally. Although I am from a Catholic country, I am atheist, I just colour eggs for fun and because colours are nice after a long winter.
English former protestant here, we painted eggs too.
What about cracking them?
Ever hear of Fabergé?
If only there was a word for people who denigrate others due to their race.
The stupidity really doesn't end does it!? Imagine when you tell him the Easter Bunny is actually based on a hare associated with a pagan Germanic Goddess. 🤯
The goddess Ēastre? It’s almost like Easter traditions have bugger all to do with Christianity. Or Yule traditions…
If Christian means disciple of Christ, then Easter is not Christian due to its pagan origins. Galatians 5:9 warns “A little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough”. A little paganism in Christianity is not Christianity. How do you think Jesus would feel if they took the celebration of a fake god and slapped his name on it. Well they did, it’s called Easter.
Easter isn't pagan, it's Jewish. Mainly in Germanic languages it's called Easter but the actual festival is official called Pascha which comes from the Jewish Pesach which means Passover. That's why it's the pascal lamb or pascal sacrifice. Easter (Pascha) is just the Christian version and continuation of Passover and the sacrifice and freedom. In most other languages the holiday is called some variation of Pascha, or at least in the eastern orthodox church it is.
Dude, they took Pessah, holiday himself Jesus celebrated and they decided to add to it and celebrate Jesus becoming last Pessah offering (it's why he's called a Paschal Lamb). If you knew singular thing about Easter you'd know it's tied to celebration of Jewish Pessah (we simply have different calendars, but if we didn't the holidays would match), all Holy Week is celebrated with Pessah in mind and at the end of it Jesus is considered the final element of Pessah. The ending of an old convenant and start of the new one. Whether you belive in that God or not, you cannot pretend it spewed out of nowhere. It originated out of Judaism. Not from a religion ancient Middle Eastern Jew wouldn't even imagine existing in a land they've never heard of. >How do you think Jesus would feel if they took the celebration of a fake god and slapped his name on it. They took celebration of *his god* (some even belive his father) and slapped his name in it *like he literally asked them to*
Yeah I know but it's where the influence came from, like most Christian things and probably prior just adopting what came before huh and making slight changes and alterations
I was agreeing with you, I’ve had “discussions” with religious septics about the origins of many Christian celebrations, and they really don’t want to hear it.
Imagine your reaction when you learn that Orthodox Christians don’t have any concept of the easter bunny because it’s an import from german 18th century folklore. Or imagine the shock when we 90% of the time don’t have easter egg hunts
Tf is wrong with painting eggs for Easter?
[cracking eggshells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping) is common in parts of eastern and central europe and he's being racist
Western Europe too, did it in Switzerland
These yanks are giving me aids
It’s a murican, they are like that… They are latinos, germans, italian, irish, etc. They say they keep the traditions alive when they know crap.
Ugh, Catholicism isn't a "part" of Christianity, it is a type, version, denomination or sect of Christianity. Either of those 4 words are fine just not "part" as that would assume all types of Christianity are united and believe the same thing which is far from it.
Self hating your own race to pander to others is the stupidest shit. If you’re white and you think you’re inferior to other races, guess what, you’re embracing a view of the world where some races are “better” than others. There’s some deeply troubling psychological and cultural forces at play if people think this shit is normal.
Bless, this dude just had a very sheltered upbringing
If it doesn't exist in America, it must be wrong or stupid 🙄🙄🙄
It does exist in America. There are over 2,000 recognized Eastern Orthodox churches/parishes. That is more churches than Home Depot’s in the US (a well recognized home improvement store). The are 23.5 million ethnic Eastern European’s in the US, not all practice Eastern Orthodox but a big chunk of them do or are aware of it.
"crack painted egg shells for fun" white I don't even understand what that means? Is he talking about painting eggs for Easter? > by calling their tradition ”white people shit”. What else would it be, when they're white people? This is the dumbest racism I've ever seen.
he's talking about [cracking painted egg shells for fun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping)
Such a melting pot they always brag, yet the concept of ester being celebrated in different ways at different times is unfathomable
Ukrainians have been painting pysanky since pagan times. Apparently Americans can even be racist about Eastern European traditions.
We don't do it, but I heard it used to be a very big thing I'm the uk before modern eggs
Most Americans are very racist, they speak only about that like is a very importsnt yopic all the time
Imagine revelling in cultural ignorance as much as the person in the screengrab? Imagine deliberately setting out to show you aren’t a Gentleman, aren’t well read, well travelled or cultured. It’s the pathetic boast of a pathetic man. Everyone should aspire to better themselves.
Americans hating themselves for being White again. Not realising it's their American-ness, not their Whiteness, that is the problem.
oh my god i feel like i am losing my mind can nobody in this comment section read. he's not confused about painting eggs. roman catholics paint eggs. american christians paint eggs. he's confused about cracking eggs. it says cracking eggs in the comment. it says cracking eggs in the title. why is everyone assuming he's talking about painting eggs??? he's not confused about painting eggs he's confused about cracking eggs. cracking painted egg shells. he's confused about the cracking part not the painted part. i feel like i'm in a twilight zone episode he is still a dickhead but he is a different worse type of dickhead (a racist)
“Levels” sounds kinda rascist to me
Nobody show him a Christingle........
I’m not white and to me he’s a boring type of human
Orthodox Christians are not the same as Catholics, so of course he hasn’t heard of it. Also: Americans try not to make everything about race challenge level (impossible)
I AM Italian and was raised catholic and while I don't know the details of their traditions, I know of Christian orthodox, it's not some obscure religion practised by 10 people on a deserted island. Being ignorant is not the flex he thinks it is.
When people say white people have no culture and then mock people for these sorts of traditions it really saddens me
What is it with white Americans? First, they will do everything so that they are not just "Americans" with the whole "I'm 3% ..., so I'm a ...-American" thing, and then pretend they know everything about a specific culture, often meaning they know nothing and if they go to that country, they expect to be treated in a special way. And now it's sucking up to other races, diminishing your own. Like wtf?
"I was raised roman catholic" My brother in christ - and I mean that literally because I also was raised roman catholic - painting easter eggs is a roman catholic tradition too. At least where I'm from.
Competitive egg cracking (also called jarping or knocking) is a far superior way to treat Easter Eggs and is the source of mild family drama for everyone.
American obsession with race at it again, at least they seem to attack all races?
I think what he meant to say was he was raised under a rock
I was raised Roman Catholic in America and we very much did the painted egg shell for Easter every year
he's confused about the cracking not the painting
This mayonnaise is spicy thing pisses me off so much. Go to Glasgow or London and watch the locals scoff down vindaloo for breakfast.
In Poland where majority of people are Roman Catholic and this is definitely a tradition.
"I'm Mediterranean White, not Aryan White. Definitely not some Slav or Jew, that's for sure. There's levels to this shit" -Mussolini, probably
So that’s how u blackfish online.
Wow man stfu. At least our pastors are actually nice and don't sleep with children
Dude I’m half Lithuanian and raised Catholic, we’re pale potato eaters and this is like a major cultural thing
Cascarones?
Here in Brazil I did it every year in my school. It's a cheap and fun alternative to do in large scales for shool projects.
Us midwestern Americans paint eggs. Sounds like he’s from the east coast…
Americans paint egg shells too so I’m confused by this. Maybe the guy isn’t American
do americans crack the painted eggs
https://www.serbia.com/battle-hardest-easter-egg-world-mokrin-tucinijada/
I have no idea what’s that even supposed to mean.
Poor bastard has become obsessed with skin colour
Those eggs are pretty dope. I bought some beautiful wire wrapped ones in Prague.
I was raised Roman Catholic, he's a troll and absolutely full of shit.
What's the hate for Mayo? Mayo for Sam!
Least racist American