You would think I would be used to it, but the entire concept of easter still blows my mind.

Lots of people in the world take easter sunday holiday very seriously and truly believe there needs to be a special day celebrated each year that marks the resurrection of "Jesus."

We all, (even lots of people won't admit this,) already know there is zero real world evidence of such an event, beyond the VERY! flimsy/worthless spoken/written word evidence.

The concept of celebrating an event roughly in line with where the earth orbit around the sun is already a rather silly one, beyond a rough mark of passage of time and a reason to party. (Hey I still like celebrating birthdays, anniversaries and other excuses to get together with family and friends to celebrate/party) But these events that "supposedly" happened 1000's of years ago, you can guarantee they very likely got the exact day wrong. Heck they do not even base it on the gregorian/julian calendars but instead roughly the lunisolar calendar, but there is actually a fair amount of disagreement on what day "easter" is. The only thing we can know for sure is the day itself does not even follow any sort of solar/lunar time keeping event, the day is actually about as vague as "some time in the spring." Which of course makes perfect sense as back then that was about as much accuracy most people could hope for unless they were near a large city. They put it on sunday simply because that was the day people already did worship/penance and it already had "holy day" status.

Now religious scholars and anyone else that studies this already know this. But most people that celebrate easter seriously will say "this is the day jesus rose from the dead based on the solar calendar. They are wrong, it's more of a vague random day in mid-spring. It's really just an excuse to get religious followers to spend more time being religious.

To me the best part of easter is the silliest/fun part of easter even if it has the usual negative connotations:

Kids going around finding candy (sugar reward yay!) to help loop these more impressionable kids into religion holiday = yummy candy! Also: a intelligent bunny hopping around hiding treats for kids to find? Really? At least most people put this part of the silliness firmly in the "santa claus" category of "for kids."

Kids have a right to be upset when they are eventually told what the easter bunny and santa claus really is, they been bold faced, directly lied to, repeatedly!

Of course a small percentage of people do observe the lent part, and easter ends up being a feast breaking fast/penance. Key word: small. Are we at the point yet we can call this small and rapidly shrinking % wise group crazy yet?

It just blows my mind as we approach 2020 so many people still take easter seriously, when just an idle outside glance by anyone that does not take easter seriously realize its all such obvious bull shit from 2000 years ago. Anyone with access to the internet, and that is now a majority of the world, can easily find all this out for themselves if they just looked. Ignorance and brainwashing from childhood is no longer an excuse.
 
 

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