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? asked in Society & CultureHolidaysEaster · 4 weeks ago

What's this whole Easter thing about?

i'm baffled and befuddled!

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  • Kieth
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago
    Favorite Answer

    After Jesus was crucified, he was taken and placed in a crypt and a large stone was rolled over the entrance. After three days, the stone was rolled away, and when Jesus came out, he didn't see his shadow, and there was six more weeks of winter.

  • 4 weeks ago

    Easter was and still is a pagan spring fertility festival.

    This is why we have the Easter bunny, eggs etc

    Christianity appropriated this festival In 325 A.D when the Council of Nicaea declared Easter for their own use to promote Christianity. 

    Now Christians everywhere pretend Easter is only theirs and the original pagan owners don't belong. 

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Another commercialized holiday for businesses to sponge money off people. 

    If there were no Easter holiday, do you think the honey baked ham company would sell that much ham in April. No. What about peeps. No. What about Cadbury.  No. Reese’s. No. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    read the bible and then you'll know

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