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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/04/2012 8:09:38 am PDT

re: #102 Simply Sarah

Warning: Random rambling ahead

As we approach the Easter holiday this, at least for most Christians, Sunday I cannot help but ponder the meaning of the fact that a relatively minor Christian holiday, Christmas, seems to have become in many minds the most important Christian holiday largely due to how secularized it has become.

Contrast this with Easter, which is, without question, by far the most important Christian holiday for all major branches of Christianity, yet it often seems discounted by many Christians as little more than one of the few days a year they may go to church. It is also secularized to a degree, but not nearly to the level of Christmas and it certainly doesn’t have the same cultural meaning.

It just all seems somewhat odd to me, even if I can mostly understand why it is the case.

Certainly not the case in Eastern Europe and the Orthodox branches of Christianity, Christmas is no great shakes to them, it is all about Easter.