Easter
This is my first Easter as an atheist.
First I’m going to explain what Easter means to me now, then I’m going to look it up online.
Before Research: Easter is the one day a year that children hunt artificial or boiled and painted eggs. It seems to have no relevance to adults. Why does Easter exist? I have no idea. Is Easter related to some other event? None that I’m aware of. I look at Easter and Halloween as very similar. Kids gets candy. Easter has never meant more than kids and candy to me.
After Research: Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus three days after he was killed. I didn’t know that but it doesn’t really surprise me. Easter is also linked to Passover. As far as I’m concerned Easter will remain about kids and candy. If I can age 36 years in America and not know what Easter meant then it doesn’t deserve more than a colored goose egg.
Tags: Easter
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January 6th, 2009 at 3:20 am
DUDE! How could you have called yourself a Christian in the first place and not known what Easter was?!
Really?
I mean, really.
That takes serious dedication.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
It’s simple, I was never interested in Easter and don’t remember being taught what it was. Since I didn’t care it didn’t stick.
But thanks for trying to degrade my Christianity because I didn’t know something that you do. Regardless of how big a deal you think it is I’m sure you will find all kind of Christians that don’t know everything you think you know.