Thursday, April 6, 2017

Cadbury Crosses Out Easter

In this latest brouhaha the prime minister of England and the Arch Bishop of York have got themselves involved. I am talking about the decision of the Cadbury chocolate company to drop the word EASTER  from their annual egg hunt.
For a century or more the Cadbury company has hosted an Easter event for children on the company grounds in Birmingham, England.
It has been known as the "Great Easter Egg Hunt", where thousands of chocolate eggs have been given away free to the local kids. This year it is a hunt with a difference. The title has been changed to the "Great Egg Hunt". "EASTER" has been kept out of it.
The reason? Why, the new human resource department decided that they wanted the event to be more inclusive and did not wish to offend any body who may not be of the Christian Faith.
That was really bright thinking.
In not wanting to offend a few people they have managed to offend thousands more by their mealy mouthed self righteousness, political-correctness.
Also these "newbies" have totally ignored the convictions their founder, John Cadbury, who was passionately of the Christian Faith, and who must be rolling his eyes somewhere in Heaven as he watches their agnostic antics.
Let's hope the intervention of Teresa May, herself the daughter of a Church of England vicar, will manage to put "Easter" back into the egg hunt and get people asking why there are Easter Eggs in the first place.
Jubilate 
Ian

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