A move in Britain to rebrand a national Easter egg hunt as simply an “egg hunt” to appeal to non-Christian children has drawn condemnation from the Church of England and Prime Minister Theresa May.

“This marketing campaign … highlights the folly in airbrushing faith from Easter,” said a statement from the Church of England sent to The Washington Post. A church spokeswoman told The Post that senior church leaders vehemently opposed the change.
2017 ad for the Cadbury egg hunt at National Trust properties in England.

Some 300,000 children are expected to attend this year’s hunt, held at 250 sites owned by the National Trust, a charity that promotes conservation. It partners with Cadbury, the maker of the chocolate eggs for the hunt.

Theresa May has spoken of her outrage that the word ‘Easter’ has been removed from posters for an Easter Egg Hunt while taking time out from a busy trip getting chummy with people who behead people found guilty of blasphemy

chairman bill wrote:Jesus was hatched on the 25th December, from a rabbit egg, then nailed up & re-interred in another rabbit egg on Easter Monday. FFS, I thought everyone knew that.

Blackadder wrote:And the Pagans are thinking "About bloody time too. Fucking Christian cultural appropriationists"

Theresa May has been accused of acting out of “revenge” after she condemned the National Trust and Cadbury for dropping the word “Easter” from this year’s Easter Egg Hunt.

May described the move as “absolutely ridiculous”, and an affront to a “very important festival” for Christians worldwide. But neither Cadbury nor the National Trust have dropped the word “Easter” from the Easter Egg Hunt.

Cadbury’s website promoting the occasion features the word Easter 14 times and their press release announcing this year’s quest for chocolate features the E-word seven times. They even have a website promoting it with the word “Easter” in the address. As for the National Trust, their announcement of the hunt features the word Easter a further seven times.

May’s rushed statement is in contrast to her usual methodical approach, which is to marshal the facts and then deliver a statement. May took more than 24 hours to comment on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and denied journalists a response three times at her press conference. But she commented in a little over an hour on the Cadbury affair.

Civil servants and former special advisers believe that May’s swift response is due to her longstanding antipathy to Helen Ghosh, the National Trust's director-general, with whom she clashed when Ghosh was permanent secretary at the Home Office and May was Home Secretary. (Ghosh left the Home Office in 2012 to take up her current role running the National Trust.)

Civil servants also believe that another Helen, Helen Bower-Easton - who was Downing Street’s official spokesperson under David Cameron and May - was ostracised by May's team due to her perceived closeness to Cameron. (Bower-Easton has since left to head up communications at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.)

One well-placed source complained that Cameron-era permanent officials had “the mark of Cain” on them in the eyes of the new administration. Another former special adviser said that May was “obsessed with revenge”. A senior figure described the new Downing Street set-up as “thin-skinned”. “The fact is she hates Helen, which is why this has happened,” another Whitehall insider claims.

DoctorE wrote::grin:

A move in Britain to rebrand a national Easter egg hunt as simply an “egg hunt” to appeal to non-Christian children has drawn condemnation from the Church of England and Prime Minister Theresa May.

“This marketing campaign … highlights the folly in airbrushing faith from Easter,” said a statement from the Church of England sent to The Washington Post. A church spokeswoman told The Post that senior church leaders vehemently opposed the change.
2017 ad for the Cadbury egg hunt at National Trust properties in England.

Some 300,000 children are expected to attend this year’s hunt, held at 250 sites owned by the National Trust, a charity that promotes conservation. It partners with Cadbury, the maker of the chocolate eggs for the hunt.

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monkeyboy wrote:seems like someone might be left with.......well...egg on their face when they realise just how much they mangled the facts here.

The_Piper wrote:Eggotistical leaders, always scrambling from the press, instead of hitching to it's yoke. The hard-boiled truth is that they can't be trusted. They'll readily serve us a pile of horseshit, sunny side up. I'm allergic to the fuckers.

Esther McConnell, a communications officer for Quakers in Britain, disputed Dr Sentamu’s comment, however, posting online: “I’m sure John Cadbury is not spinning in his grave. As a Quaker, he didn’t celebrate Easter, John Sentamu.”

Ms McConnell told The Times: “Quakers recognise the equality and value of all people. As such I am glad to see that Cadbury’s and the National Trust are welcoming those of ‘all faiths and none’ to their event regardless of whether they call it Easter or not.”

mrjonno wrote:What is really sad is unlike in the US hardly anyone goes to churches in the UK, more people are openly gay than worship reguarly

This isn't about religion its about old people wanting to go back to the 1950's when they had their own hips and got laid