Posted on 03/31/2024 5:28:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Almost as inevitably as Santa Claus arriving in department stores and town squares or the appearance of garland and ornaments beside Halloween costumes, there appears the annual debate over the “war on Christmas.” The question is whether Christmas is being obliterated from the public square, with “Merry Christmas” replaced by “Happy Holidays,” the banishment of carols from school choruses, or the generic coffee cups at Starbucks.
I have two different questions: Is there a war on Easter? And has Easter lost?
Let’s be honest. Easter in America is increasingly culturally invisible. “Easter weekend” can come and go and not be noticed by growing numbers of people.
There are many reasons for this invisibility.
First of all, Easter is a lot easier to hide. Christmas, on December 25, can fall on any day of the week. Easter will always fall on a Sunday — which means Easter can always be buried in the weekend. Say goodbye to your work colleagues on Friday, and greet them on Monday: there isn’t a palpable difference between Easter and any other weekend.
Another reason is, like Christmas, growing secularization. Holidays with religious roots are suspect; holidays with religious roots in what is still the religion of the majority of Americans — Christianity — are particularly suspect. It’s a puzzlement of modernity that Americans have let themselves be talked into the proposition that somehow “democracy” requires that majority to strip themselves of a basic identity as the price of “responsible” participation in public life.
But that’s how it is. My son’s school district in northern Virginia pretends that the current weeklong break is “spring holiday” (not unlike Christmas being “winter holiday” for us Druid wannabes). And that district has made noises that, in the future, the current coincidence of “spring holiday” with Easter may be
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The left worships government and everything else is a threat to them.
Christmas is popular with the secular crowd because of greed.
They’d probably be ok with Easter if they got presents.
How is that working out for America?
I’m old enough to remember participating in Christmas plays in elementary school. In California, no less, complete with three wise men, a baby Jesus, and the entire class singing “We wish you a Merry Christmas” as we all walked off the stage. Jeff, the only Jew in our class, happily joined us. It was, as they say nowadays, a ‘learning moment’. I asked my folks about Judaism, and got a history lesson. Jeff and I were friends, and we talked about our different religions and practices. Then we went back to riding our bikes and playing football.
That flag is to the global fascists’ 4th reich what the swastika was to the 3rd reich.
Happy Resurrection Day to you Too!
Senile Joe and company really, really don’t understand the Power of God and Spirit, his Mercy and Grace is freely given, woe to those mocking him.
A seat in “ the smoking section” awaits them.
THERE’S NO SANTA CLAUS????
The left worships the government, which worships Satan, who (for the time being) worships himself.
Phew! Thanks for the clarification :)
Happy Easter!
Jesus is King.
And #FJB
They detest Divine Providence, America and the Constitution
Either we end it or someone else will.
Yep - as the New York governor lights up NY City and Niagara Falls with the trans colors of pink, blue and white for “trans visibility day” - formerly Easter Sunday.
Hope this is shoved in people’s faces and down their throats, hard. Maybe they’ll think twice before electing these fools again - but then I doubt it.
If they’re reelected, the next holiday to be disappeared will be Christmas. And, no they wouldn’t dare try this on Ramadan.
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