Apr 08
“Happy Easter”
As I have run errands over the past week, particularly on Friday, my day off, I noticed that almost everywhere I went, people wished me “Happy Easter.”
Since I am a Christian, that doesn’t strike me as being inappropriate. I certainly don’t find it offensive.
At the same time, I do find it a little odd.
Every December, there’s a big deal made of stores being less likely to say “Merry Christmas.” Many opt for the more generic “Happy Holidays” instead. Granted, besides Christmas, there’s Hannukah and Kwanzaa that some celebrate either along with or instead of Christmas. But it seems that there is a hesitancy to assume that people celebrate Christmas, as if people are afraid that making the wrong assumption will trigger some kind of negative reaction.
I wonder why it doesn’t seem that this is such a concern for Easter, at least not in the various places I went this weekend.
Consider this: Christmas is the celebration of Christ’s birthday. There are even non-Christian religions that believe that Christ was actually born. While Christians consider Him the Messiah, others feel that he was more a good prophet.
Easter, however, is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection from death on the cross. Easter, therefore, is a more powerful event for Christians than the Christmas holiday.
That’s why I wonder why people would seem to be more willing to assume it’s okay to wish someone a Happy Easter and less okay to wish someone a Merry Christmas.
Any thoughts?
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April 8th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I wouldn’t say Happy Easter in an area similar to where I used to live! I learned very quickly to say either “Have a good holiday” or “Happy Passover” by default!
However, you do have a point. I mean, this IS the Big One, so one would expect that this is the one that would get Christians all up in arms about “secularization.” All I know is that I never saw a chocolate cross next to the chocolate Easter bunnies until about three years ago (and now I buy one of each!).
Happy Easter.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:11 am
You know, I give up understanding what is supposed to be acceptable or not. I’m just going to keep on saying what I want to say. This country was founded on religious freedom and I’m not going to give it up. So…Happy Easter! De