The War on Easter

American Thinker ^ | 31 Mar, 2024 | John M. Grondelski

[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

[sport]

If the War on Easter is fought like the War on Poverty, the War on Crime, The War on Drugs was fought, they will lose it too.

[Ezekiel]

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's truly the key to redemption. To be a kid again in one great respect, is simply to know to get along. It's not even something that had to be thought out.

Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

[WildHighlander57]

They busted the US flag rules with that display...

[drwoof]

Amen.