PLEASE! DON'T CELEBRATE EASTER!

The secular aspects of Easter (as is the very name of the holiday in English) are derived from pagan (Celtic) spring fertility rites and the deities thereof. Just as the secular aspects of Christmas are derived from pagan celebrations of the winter solstice.

Early Christians co-opted the pagan elements of the celebrations to help sell the faith. ka-CHING. Puritans, in fact, banned the celebration of Christmas because of those pagan elements, and because of the absence of Biblical authority for the date, or even the season, of Jesus of Nazareth's birth. The Puritans could hardly ban Easter because of its pagan elements, however, there being ample biblical authority for not only the date and time but for this being the highest of all high holy days. So they lived with it. Makes you wonder, given the solemnity surrounding the Jewish Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the Muslim Ramadan, how it is that Christians celebrate their highest holy day with Easter eggs. But that's how it is.

Of course, the price you pay for Pagans R Us is that people can't separate the secular from the religious. And given the quiet, thoughtful, respectful, generous turn-the-other-cheek character of most American Christianity these days, including the White House Official version (NOT - in case you didn't get it), it's precious little wonder that an increasing number of people want NOTHING to do with it. I'm going to spend four hours in church tomorrow and I'm wondering myself.

Every holiday in this country should, IMO, have the same name: DOWP. "Day Off Work. Party." Would solve all the problems at once.

Anti religious peoplea round the world are behind this - the so called social justice looney left I think. On of our tourist icons Sea World is no longer going to call "fairy penguins" by this name - they will call them "little penguins" so as not to offend homosexuals. What a laugh! We can't use the delightful word "gay" now, as it is associated with homosexuals. It's all rubbish!

So is Christmas but it is the meaning we give to these days which make them "important". It should be called wither the Ressurrection Day or perhaps even the passover season... whatver, it STILL holds a place in the heart DEPENDING on the faith we have.

that's so ridiculous... but it doesn't matter... I still say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Easter"... whatever... people need to get over themselves and chill out.

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Celebrating the holiday with roe. That may be more politically correct.

deorre

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Read three words, and you are likely to hear how much I want religion out of schools. But even when I called myself Pagan, the Easter bunny visited my house. It wasn't called the Oestra bunny, because that is lame! Calling it the "Holiday bunny" is just as lame. We didn't hide eggs because they are symbolic of birth and the renewal of the Earth. We hid them because there is yummy chocolate inside of them, and I get to eat all the ones the kids can't find. I am more likely to complain that my kids don't get a real Spring Break because they have to save a whole mess of days around Easter, but frankly, they are getting days off, so we can go to Grandma's house on a little different time table than we originally planned. And now that I no longer use the term Pagan to describe my beliefs, it's even more true. The wording on my calender says "Easter", I'm getting chocolate, all the world is right. I feel no need to change the wording just because I don't celebrate the religious aspects of it.

I celebrate both the Biblical and secular aspects of Easter, but I'm sure tons of people just do the bunny thing. Really, if you think about it, it's the biggest Christian holiday there is.
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It's unbelievable. I'm a Christian, and I can't believe how they are trying to erase Jesus out of events.