I don't understand how Christmas has turned into a month-and-a-half long frenzied extravaganza; why Christmas songs are played on the radio, but not Easter songs; why the story of Santa is detailed to no apparent end, but the Bunny just brings you some candy; why people fight over whether it's acceptable to wish a fellow "Merry Christmas" while you rarely get a "Happy Easter" from anyone.
I would figure the celebration of the resurrection of Christ would be at least equally as prominent as that of his birth!
2006-12-10 05:59:05 · 7 answers · asked by Bugmän 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
You would think so. Easter is still about Christ. Christmas isn't anymore.
2006-12-10 07:23:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Bug, If you want to go around wishing people a happy Easter all year long, that's okay with me. I'm sure nobody else would attempt to stop you.
To the vast part of the population, Easter is about kids having fun. Kids like their egg hunts, the candy, etc.
The grown-ups enjoy the Spring flowers, the warm sun, the family get-togethers.
The preachers think of resurrections, they're about the only ones.
The reason the early church resurrected at that time is because that was the pagan celebration of the Rebirth. They celebrated the rebirth with the very young birds, chicks, bunnies, and Spring flowers.
All the trappings of both Christmas and Easter come directly from celebrations that far pre-date Christianity.
2006-12-10 14:15:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been on a search for REAL Christmas decorations and have a very difficult time finding any. Most are Santa, reindeer, bells, wreaths, snowmen and stockings and snow flakes. It seems to me that Christmas is becoming less about the birth of Jesus and more about the celebration of winter.....which is pagan. On the other hand, Easter is also pagan, the Easter bunny and the eggs are pagan symbols of fertility. And even the word "Easter" is a derivative of the name of a pagan God. I do not celebrate Easter, I celebrate Resurrection Sunday
2006-12-10 14:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by tas211 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I happen to agree with you. The real story of Christianity is in resurrection, not birth. For Christians, you would think that it would be Easter that was celebrated, wouldn't you...to them, it is proof of "god" in the Christ. Yet, Christians play the pagan Yule to the hilt, and color eggs for Easter. Strange world, isn't it?
2006-12-10 14:02:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
you managed to get it wrong in the very basis. You see, xmas is as much a christian holiday as easter is - which is, hardly at all. They both originate in ancient pagan rituals, celebrating the winter solstice and the spring equinox respectively. In the early centuries, the christian priests, who couldn't wipe out the pagan habits of celebration, gave the holidays religious content.
In truth, what we're celebrating at christmas is the turning of the season, the midwinter, the winter solstice.
Easter (after Eostre or Astarte) is a spring fertility festival.
Both holidays predate christianity by thousands of years.
2006-12-10 15:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well, christmas was when the savior was born and easter is just when he raised from the grave and went up to heaven. so christmas is more important b/c if there was no christmas then there would really be no easter.
and in christmas time people get to sped time with their family. and easter it just a time to basically say...cool, he raised from the grave proving that he is the savior. so yea.
hope that that made as much since to you as it did to me when i was typing it! lol
2006-12-10 14:06:55 · answer #6 · answered by ♥•Softball•Chick•♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree, and I always wish people Happy Easter.
2006-12-10 14:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by tootsie38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋