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Why not Compassion Day instead of Easter Monday? : Comments
By Eric Claus, published 24/3/2005Eric Claus suggests we replace replace Easter Monday with a secular holiday.
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Like Christmas, Easter is just another festival that was co-opted by the christians in order to ease the transition from pagan traditions. Easter eggs, for example, are entirely pre-christian. The movable date of easter each year is still a compromise between various religious factions, none of whom can identify sufficiently accurately the date of the crucifixion. (In that case, I wonder how come they are so sure about Christmas?).
Boaz, typically, wonders how anyone who is not christian can possibly be compassionate anyway, since this is entirely the prerogative of those who agree with his beliefs:
"I find myself asking the question "Why" be compassionate if u don't have a personal faith in God ?"
I wonder if you realize how profoundly arrogant and condescending that sounds, Boaz?
Easter, autumn break, compassion day, broken teddy-bears day, pink carnation day, what's the difference?