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What they all said! Happy Easter everyone.
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Originally posted by mikey boy:
happy easter. why isnt easter on the same day each year? why does it have to do with the cycle of the moon? 
Because that's it is. Why would it need to be the same day each year?
"Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20th which marks the Spring Equinox. Easter Sunday can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25th. Eastern Orthodox churches have a different method in determining Easter and sometimes will be observed on the same day as other Christian religions."
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kramit,well if christ's rising isnt on the same day every year then why does his birth have to be on the same day? i guess "thats just the way it is" is an acceptable answer to you but i want to know why.
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It's more of when it's celebrated. I doubt his exact birth or resurrection has been accurately recorded/translated anyways. The only why I found to you Easter question is that basically like I said, that's the way it is. That's what the churches decided. If you want to know why, get to researching. Or just celebrate it and realize that (AFAIK) it's not really a known date anyways, so it doesn't matter.
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Originally posted by LoCoZsc:
Happy Easter to everyone and their families. 
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I was thinking of if I had kids... for an egg hunt I'd hide white eggs in the snow... MUHAHA!!!
Anyway, Happy Easter
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
It's more of when it's celebrated. I doubt his exact birth or resurrection has been accurately recorded/translated anyways. The only why I found to you Easter question is that basically like I said, that's the way it is. That's what the churches decided. If you want to know why, get to researching. Or just celebrate it and realize that (AFAIK) it's not really a known date anyways, so it doesn't matter.
Because when the christians invented a new holiday to replace an existing pagan one they used the same way of figuring out when it was. Same reason why x-mas is Dec 25 and Jesus likely wasn't even born in winter.
Ahh heck - just ask google...
"The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 AD.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a .k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similar "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [were] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:
Aphrodite from Cyprus
Astarte, from Phoenicia
Demeter, from Mycenae
Hathor from Egypt
Ishtar from Assyria
Kali, from India
Ostara, a Norse Goddess of fertility.
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis ([the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection.""
Many of the christian fables are based on / evolved from earlier pagan practices.
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anyone else get a chocolate bunny and eat its head off?
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Originally posted by Kessen:
anyone else get a chocolate bunny and eat its head off?
I was thinking of that... but with peeps instead
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Originally posted by Kane:
Originally posted by Kessen:
anyone else get a chocolate bunny and eat its head off?
I was thinking of that... but with peeps instead
mmm peeps,i could eat like an infinity of those (sorry for the napoleon referance)
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