Demon Clown Baby

Some cities have renamed their Easter Egg Hunt to the Spring Egg Hunt, presumably to avoid the whole religion vs. government issue.

I don’t see the point in that, since Easter is already a secular holiday.

Easter is about eggs, and chocolate, and rabbits, and spring. Mainly it’s about chocolate and Jelly Bird Eggs from See’s Candies.

As far as the resurrection of Jesus goes, that isn’t supposed to be celebrated on Easter. It’s supposed to be celebrated on Sunday.

Look it up in the Bible if you want. The christians in the 1st century (you know, the ones that actually knew Jesus personally) met every first day of the week (Sunday to you and me) and remembered his death and his resurrection.

They didn’t hunt for eggs and eat candy. That stuff comes from pagan spring and fertility celebrations.

The idea that Jesus’ resurrection is to be celebrated only once a year is not in the Bible; that was added much later.

So if you want to be religious, great, remember his resurrection every Sunday. If you want to colour eggs and give Easter baskets to your kids, great.

There is no conflict between the two; they have nothing whatever to do with one another. Easter is secular. Jesus resurrection is religious, and to be observed every week, not every year.