Ask a swedish 6yo why we celebrate easter

petitmetis · 9 months

Hell, I'm 19 and it's still all about the candy. I love this country.

morfar22 · 9 months

I "celebrate" easter by having a nice dinner and not giving a fuck about why I'm celebrating.

It's a family tradition.

Forss · 9 months

Kids these days, they need to watch more Anders och Måns!

Anders och Måns - is there a god?

rosts · 9 months

That's brilliant!

Was that in today's Metro? Think I'll get outside to grab it. Jesus will never find his way back in our society. Ghosts and other nonsense might, but Jesus is eternally dead in Scandinavia.

Spooooooooooooon · 9 months

TIL in Swedish, 'get' means goat.

The english phrase 'get fucked' just got a little more interesting.

lepizao · 9 months

My 5 y/o daughter came home explaining me what she understood of the teacher's explanation of Easter: "God died, then a rabbit got sad, painted some eggs and god came back to life". My answer to her was: "I find your story easier to believe, so I'm sticking to that sweetheart. Thanks for the lesson".

herruhlen · 9 months

Not so long ago, that statement would have involved detonating firecrackers as well.

Sadly, the children of today have seemingly lost the fine tradition of badgering your neighbors for candy dressed up as a farmhand on Knut as well. Though they've adapted Halloween, so it evens out. Traditions where you can badger neighbors for candy are sacred in the name of candy.

SCX-Kill · 9 months

If you think that is something, you should see this. Swedes mocking christianity on national TV.

CeeJayDK · 9 months

TIL about easter bitches/hags (påskkärring)

getafuckingowl · 9 months

All in all, we celebrate it to eat candy and paint eggs that we get from the blue man that lives in the blue house on a hill with his goat, Jesus. And that's why we dress as witches.

Nioxic · 9 months

same with christmas in my family. my mom just likes the food we make :b

we never went to a church in our lives

:b

Johwi · 9 months

In case you're wondering why the kid is dressed up, it's an old swedish folklore tradition during easter containing witches. Couldn't find an English explanation, but if someone wants to google translate / look at pictures: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5skk%C3%A4rring

Italian_Barrel_Roll · 9 months

Proving once again that Swedes are awesome.

Efflux · 9 months

Meanwhile I'm working this Friday while my Swedish parent company has a 4 day weekend. They get off for every religious holiday but are the biggest atheist country.

reilmb · 9 months

Oh Goat Lord.

gayhusband · 9 months

Go Sweden!

Sl1ngdad · 9 months

As a Swede I can confirm that Jesus is in fact a goat.

Azumikkel · 9 months

Quite ironic, because.. guess what's also a goat

UncleCrassius · 9 months

This conversation took place yesterday between my little brother ( 5 years old) and me. I'm an atheist, we are Icelandic/Norwegian.

Brother: Who created man?

Me: Some people believe man evolved from apes more than a million years ago, others believe he was created by God.

Brother: If God exists, then who created him?

Tobbeb · 9 months

I'm also from sweden and today I saw a kid in the paper who said "I heard jesus was an angel in the sky, but what's he doing there? maybe he's brushing leaves."

Grisepik · 9 months

Easter is about how Jesus turns into the Easter Bunny when he gets angry. He tries to see if he can find a way to control the raging spirit that lives inside him. And then he found the cure and he became Santa Claus. True story.

davdftw · 9 months

I love sweden. Snus ftw

PossiblyTrolling · 9 months

ATHEIST 6 YEAR OLDS?

HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT IMMIGRATING TO SWEDEN

Whooop-Whooop · 9 months

We celebrate other things, right? So why not Easter, it's just more eggs.

Love this line :P

ODIN111999 · 9 months

This is why I don't mind celebrating Christmas, because it ends up being more about being with family and getting presents (and I like my presents, bitch).

3oclockinthemorning · 9 months

I live in Ireland, I actually forgot that easter had anything to do religion until yesterday.

Freddie_AppsHero · 9 months

Most Easter customs come from Norse/Germanic paganism. Christians can thank me with a nice gift basket.

sweYoda · 9 months

Sweden ftw! :D

hotvision · 9 months

That sums up every holiday in this country.

Boo_This_Redditor · 9 months

Easter is one of my favorite pagan holiday.

theCalculator123 · 9 months

Here's a full translation:

At the preschool Pysslingen in Upplands Väsby, the kids are preparing for the Easter weekend by dressing up as påskkärringar ('Easter hags', basically witches from this place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockula), playing around with eggs, and painting chickens.

When the kids were asked by Metro to answer some questions about Easter, there were plenty of question marks and even more guesses. - You celebrate Easter so that you get to eat candy. - We celebrate other stuff, so we can celebrate Easter as well. Just with more eggs. - Jesus ? That sounds like a goat.

Blokula is a hill with a blue house were the old blue man lives.

One thing that is certainly true is that the kids love Easter, especially all the pottering around, the candy, and that they get to dress up as påskkärringar.

[deleted] · 9 months

I am sorry. But why the fuck are the Swedish people acting like this is something special?

99% of the kids do it for the fucking candy.

ToxicToothpaste · 9 months

That kid will be a great redditer one day...

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 9 months

TIL goodies comes from Godis...

also that I can kinda read swedish if i know the translation first.

BattleBrother · 9 months

The_Hungry_Man · 9 months

I love Sweden.

[deleted] · 9 months

This just in on r/atheism:

A six year old is the premier spokesperson.

Senuf · 9 months

I used to love Sweden because of the swedes I met —cool, nice, friendly, generous, funny, intelligent people—, and some of their music (i.e. Ebba Grön, and Imperiet). And now I have one more reason to love Sweden.

emptytissuebox · 9 months

I think i just found the perfect argument against christians

kmdudich · 9 months

:] my future children

mainhead · 9 months

wtf is going on with the kid on the right's cheeks?

BlackbeltJones · 9 months

Correction: Jesus is the ~~lamb~~ goat of God.

Aptspire · 9 months

A goat? Christians praise what they hate!

orthag · 9 months

Gonna go name a goat Jesus now.

[deleted] · 9 months

"And on the third day he shall rise again but before he shall ascend into heaven he shall dress as a bunny and hide the eggs so that the children may find the eggs. The lord looked upon this and said it is good. Amen"

John 59:20

Kaboose1442 · 9 months

This made me lol! Why else to we have easter? TO EAT CANDY! Why do we have x-mas? TO GET PRESENTS! I once had an argument with someone who told me that if i celebrated "CHRISTmas" i am a christian and there is no other reason for celebrating the holiday. I told him to fuck off and stfu cuz i can celebrate a holiday how ever the hell i want. It was hilarious what he was trying to argue about.

TokyoXtreme · 9 months

As a celebration of the vernal equinox, Easter has definitely more to do with eating candy than with some guy with a beard.

PoorlyTimedPhraseGuy · 9 months

Ask any 6 year old in my american family. It's all about the sugar.

confuzzledfather · 9 months

I just asked my six year old the same thing, she said 'because some people believe God died at Christmas and came back alive at Easter'. I asked the 4 year old the same thing and he said 'because the dog died.'.

urbanturtlefarm · 9 months

I'm now naming our next male goat Jesus. He only get's to hang around ;) for a year before we sacrifice him, then (three days later) he's resurrected as stew.

gjoh · 9 months

Actually Easter is the holiday when swedes are consuming more candy than all the other holidays combined.

M002 · 9 months

best country for many reasons, this is now one of them.

l34512 · 9 months

Well, I can say this. When I have kids, I am giving them presents on religious holidays. Actually, most little kids who don't live in "Bible Belt"-esqe areas don't give a SHIT about why they're celebrating. They want candy and presents. Not a Jesus lecture. I might even celebrate Hanukkah too. Because I LOVE chocolate coins.

spiderobert · 9 months

wait... didn't Jesus supposedly die to replace the need to sacrifice goats!?

OscarSlenderman · 9 months

Haha My sister (We are swedes) ones thought Jesus was the name of the easterbunny x)

mickddp · 9 months

WOW! A post on /r/atheism jerking off to Sweden. What a rare gem we have here! I wish Amerika was more like Sweden(Heaven if God were real! AMIRITE GUYZ?)

midgman01 · 9 months

I personally recognize Easter as a time to get together with family... and for getting candy :3

Mehanem · 9 months

Article roughly translated:

At the pre-school "Pysslingen Vik" in Upplands Vasby, the children are preparing for the easter holiday by dressing up as easter-witches, doing arts and crafts with eggs, and painting chickens. When the children were answering Metros questions about easter, the question marks were plentiful and the guesswork even more so.

"You celebrate easter to get candy."
"We also celebrate other things. So you can celebrate easter, but with eggs."
"Jesus? Sounds like a goat."

Bluehill is a hill that has a blue house on it where a blue man lives.

One thing that is at least certain is that the kids love easter, especially the crafting and candy, and to dress up as witches.

/Your friendly neighborhood Swede.

(This is a rough translation, since it deals with small children some things are translated as they said it, not exactly grammatically correct.)

ChaosBrigadier · 9 months

This is cute and funny, but I don't get why clueless children are proof of the nonresistance of gods.

HurrdurrMannen · 9 months

Excellent observation fellow swedes.

Tajz · 9 months

And this is why god makes Sweden suffer with earthquakes, vulcanos, famine and starvation... oh wait, never mind.

Kaysol · 9 months

Please tell me that whatever it says under the second one, it's about Blackula.

Swedishbadgergirl · 9 months

I'm so proud of being Swedish right now.

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