No, really.
Today is Easter, which is a big deal for a large segment of the population. Not as big as Christmas (although liturgically Easter is the more important holiday), but a big deal nonetheless.
Maybe it's because it isn't as consumer driven as Christmas that we haven't heard as much about the “War on Easter” as we have about the “War on Christmas“, but that's apparently all changed.
Today, thanks to those assiduous conspiracy-spotters at Breitbart, we now know who's at the heart of the War on Easter: Google!
Set aside the fact that apparently Google never observes religious holidays in its doodles, the Breitbartniks know better. In the cultural war, when you really want to know what's happening on the front lines, where else would you go to find out?
Oh, and why did I absolutely have to post this today?
It's pretty simple, really. If I'd waited until tomorrow you would have bet money that it was an April Fool's prank. Fortunately, though, the people at Breitbart are fools every day of the year.
…is far more famous and influential now than when he was alive.
Hey, it’s an Easter miracle! The resurrection of a Jewish Socialist!
And, in fact, the news is so bizarre these days that it is hard to come up with better April Fool material!
Eostre, from whom Easter gets its name, was the Germanic (hence Anglo-Saxon) pre-Christian goddess of spring. Note the fertile bunnies and eggs hiding in plain sight. Although Christian Easter wanders around, Eostre is on the vernal equinox.
Likewise, Christmas was originally celebrated on the vernal equinox but got shifted back to the winter solstice, which the Romans celebrated as Saturnalia. Note the tree, the lights, the ritual eating and drinking, and other pagan practices still extant.
Pirate radio types call the practice snuggling. You choose a frequency just to one side or the other of a popular legit station. That way people hit your frequency on the way to finding the more powerful station. The early Christian church figured this one out.
So let’s take a stand against the war on Saturnalia and Eostre. Gimmie that old time religion.
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