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What do you think decorating eggs or celebrating a rabbit have
to do with christianity? Why does the date of Easter vary with
the lunar cycle?
- Ken



No-- those are traditions linked to the celebration of Easter, which is a
holiday commemorating the resurrection of Christ. Those traditions are
carried over from pagan holidays, but that doesn't mean Easter is a pagan
holiday. Easter is Easter, with or without the eggs and chocolate bunnies.

Same with Christmas, which is still Christmas even if one chooses to forego
the tree, the log, the ham, the mistletoe, and the Watching of the Grinch.

Both are "pagan" holidays only to those who feel the need to make some sort
of feeble iconoclastic point. Having roots established in pagan holidays
is simply not the same thing as being a pagan holiday. Equating the two is
a logical flaw. Chimps and Gorillas may share a common ancestor, but you
wouldn't say that a chimp is a gorilla, would you?

--
Scott
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