The War on Easter and the end of a once great secular holiday

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When I was a kid Easter was my favorite holiday. It was second in importance to Christmas. It was widely and openly celebrated as a secular public event. The schools actually had "Easter Vacation" not "Spring Break." Easter decorations adorned many public business, and few if any people "complained."

While much has been written (rightly and accurately) about the War on Christmas, the much more succesful while much more low key War on Easter has largely been succesful for the anti-traditional holiday extremists. In fact, it would largely be possible to live in America and not even know it was Easter today. Its the holiday that the anti-traditional holiday extremists have been most succesful in pushing into the closet.

What's ironic is that by doing this, its made it a more overtly religious holiday for those who still celebrate. Its actually the secular, non-religious aspects of the day they have mostly destroyed.
 
I would suggest 3 possible ways it can be revived as an important public event:

1. Fix the date on the same day each year. This was proposed in the middle ages and the Vatican commissed a study which concluded that there was "no theological reason why the date of Easter couldn't be fixed on the same day each year." Yet, this was never acted on.

2. Make it a public holiday. While some businesses do still give off Good Friday, this number goes down every year due to anti-Christian hatred in the business community. Making Easter Monday a holiday on the other hand, would emphasize the secular aspects of the event. Of course, this is unlikely due to the fact that the establishment itself has mostly been responsible for downgrading the holiday in the first place.

3. Create a "give gifts for Easter" campaign. The main reason Christmas hasn't suffered the same fate as Easter yet, is because businesses make too much money off it due to the presents people buy. While they have largely renamed it to Holiday instead of Christmas, they still pimp the idea that people should give gifts for Holiday. I have always maintained that Easter would be a bigger event if it was a "gift giving holiday."

Corporate America may hate traditional holidays, especially ones with vague Christian roots like Christmas and Easter, they like making money. If we promote the idea of Giving Spring Holiday Gifts it could get them back on board instead of trying to bury what's left of the holiday.
 
Corporate America doesn't give a shit if the holidays are religious or not, they just hate paying people not to work.
 
I'd chalk it up to apathy over any sort of actual planned campaign against holy days.
 
Corporate America doesn't give a shit if the holidays are religious or not, they just hate paying people not to work.[/QUOTE

I'm not a corporation, but I wouldn't like to have to pay someone not to work for me either.
 
There are no wars on any religions or holidays. It has always been a silly talking point.
The only thing happening are some groups trying to include everyone in everything which in itself is really dumb and companies looking for ways to save a buck or make a buck.
That's all it is. Time to accept that nobody is trying to take Christ out of Christmas and find something real to worry about.
 
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Corporate America doesn't give a shit if the holidays are religious or not, they just hate paying people not to work.

Kinda like all the days the GOVERNMENT doesn't work.
 
I'm not a corporation . . .

[swings pocketwatch] Yes, you are. You are a corporation. You cannot physically die, and your creators and owners are not personally liable for your conduct. Now, go forth into the world and wreak havoc.
 
The UK has Bank Holidays for Good Friday and the following Monday (today) Easter Monday.
 
When I was a kid Easter was my favorite holiday. It was second in importance to Christmas. It was widely and openly celebrated as a secular public event. The schools actually had "Easter Vacation" not "Spring Break." Easter decorations adorned many public business, and few if any people "complained."

While much has been written (rightly and accurately) about the War on Christmas, the much more succesful while much more low key War on Easter has largely been succesful for the anti-traditional holiday extremists. In fact, it would largely be possible to live in America and not even know it was Easter today. Its the holiday that the anti-traditional holiday extremists have been most succesful in pushing into the closet.

What's ironic is that by doing this, its made it a more overtly religious holiday for those who still celebrate. Its actually the secular, non-religious aspects of the day they have mostly destroyed.



Easter has never been a big secular holiday, aside from the purchasing of candy and new church outfits, both of which still happen.
 
When I was a kid Easter was my favorite holiday. It was second in importance to Christmas. It was widely and openly celebrated as a secular public event. The schools actually had "Easter Vacation" not "Spring Break." Easter decorations adorned many public business, and few if any people "complained."

While much has been written (rightly and accurately) about the War on Christmas, the much more succesful while much more low key War on Easter has largely been succesful for the anti-traditional holiday extremists. In fact, it would largely be possible to live in America and not even know it was Easter today. Its the holiday that the anti-traditional holiday extremists have been most succesful in pushing into the closet.

What's ironic is that by doing this, its made it a more overtly religious holiday for those who still celebrate. Its actually the secular, non-religious aspects of the day they have mostly destroyed.

This is an interesting observation .

Exactly the opposite is happening in New Zealand. Easter has traditionally been a religious holiday here. All businesses, except emergency services, were required by law to close, there were no decorations or other secular motifs e.g. the Easter bunny. However over the last 20 years this has changed and we have become far more secular and the religious reasons for Easter are being lost.

The Friday and the Monday are still public holidays though, it,d be a particularly courageous govt that revoked that particular law.
 
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