The Death of Easter

The Death of Easter

With Spring Morning three weeks away at this writing, it’s not too soon to get some Paas Spring Egg Dye and for the ladies to start looking for their spring bonnets so they can strut their stuff down Fifth Avenue in the Spring Day Parade. And, don’t forget to lay in a good supply of jellybeans so the little ones can really enjoy the Spring Baskets the Spring Bunny leaves for them!

Preposterous? Not even close.

Remember Easter pageants? Recall Easter break from school? They’re long gone and so, too, will all other mention of Easter be abolished if the P.C. secularists get their way.

Killing Christmas and all that feast day means to Christians didn’t quite cut it with the anti-Christian, War On Christmas set. Now they’re out to kill the Easter Bunny, or at least to eliminate the word “Easter” from the American lexicon. Of course, “they” haven’t yet succeeded in eliminating the word “Christmas” in favor of “holiday” and “winter,” which is not to say they’re not doing their darnedest to make the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ about as significant as Arbor Day.

The good news is that no efforts to date have been recorded to abolish mention of the Jewish festival of Hannukah, Islam’s Eid-ul-Fitr, Buddhism’s Visakah Puja, or Hinduism’s Diwali, although the Roman Saturnalia has gone by the wayside.

Christians celebrate Easter Sunday as the central feast of Christianity, the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ which in Western Christianity marks the end of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and penance in preparation for Easter. Eggs, bonnets, parades, and bunnies have at best only a tangential relation to the religious import of the festival but they are all elements of the Easter tradition.

Except maybe in Munson, Ohio . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4040)