Question: Why do we, followers of Christ, get worked up about "Holiday Trees" and all that jazz at Christmas, but we celebrate the death and resurrection or our Lord by hunting for rabbit eggs on Easter?
Quick note...Easter gets its name from Eostre, the name for a Germanic fertility goddess. At least Holiday originally meant Holy Day.
Final Note: Again, I don't have a problem with Easter or the egg hunts, but it seems as though the Passion Week, as well call it, is full of potential celebrations, feasts, outreach opportunities, times of prayer, reflection, and meditation that could fill the entire week with Christ, but we as modern day Christians show our shallowness by having the most memorable thing of the weekend being our kids running around looking for eggs with candy in them. Just sayin'... seems like we've gone from Beethoveen and Michealangelo to modern Christian creativity of copying every cool new fad and putting it on a t-shirt with our "Holidays" as well as our art.
Final, final Note: Dare I say....perhaps we like the shallowness because a robust week would require us to drop all other things to celebrate the Passion Week?
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