I love Easter and Christmas. Anything that reminds the kind of Christians that hate everyone and everything and use their 'faith' to subjugate others and bend society to their will that Jesus was actually about being nice to people.
But even more I love the magic of these holidays. The pagan roots of the festivals.
Long before Christianity, Easter was a pagan festival celebrating Spring in the northern hemisphere. After the bleak of winter snows, a time to celebrate growing green things at a time when daylight hours equalled the dark - the Spring equinox.
And we know too that Christmas was a festival long before Jesus was born and grew up to be a compassionate man who thought people should treat everyone how they themselves liked to be treated.
But magic bunnies and chocolate eggs and presents in the depth of winter and flying reindeer all had their origins in pagan festivals built around the cycles of nature - the real magic of the world.
Because what can be more amazing than a midwinter's night, and the knowledge that Spring is on its way, and after that, all the promise of Summer? Or green shoots bursting through frozen ground, giving life to a new generation of creatures?
Have a great Easter and may magic bunnies abound.
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