Wait, it's a holiday?

[athelind]

Easter is a holiday that almost escapes my notice. I observe the Equinox, of course, and I've been quietly raising a glass to Yuri Gagarin every evening, but when I drifted away from being even nominally Christian (around age 12-13, honestly), Easter was just one of those things that went with it

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[paka]

I've never actually been a practicing Christian. Easter's always had a more religious context for me - it's someone else's holiday, and yet the entire world closes down for it or does x and y approved activity. Alienating eh? When you add in the implications of the whole passion play and the call to genocide from the book of Matthew, it's definitely a holiday I resent like hell.

I agree that it doesn't have the same secular impact as Christmas simply because a holiday where all they can really sell is chocolate, two months after another chocolate holiday, is not going to be as big a deal as a four month long orgasm of mass consumerism.

So Easter means to me now pretty much what it's always meant; a day when I feel like I don't fit in, when most places are closed and the places which are open are packed full of people.

[siege]

I work in a fast-food restaurant. People go eat Real Food on Easter (the traditional family dinner). The place is normally packed on Sundays, but today it was particularly empty.

[jdarkwulf]

For me, today doesn't mean all that much, either.

Tomorrow, however, is "Discount Chocolate Day, Part Two".

[tombfyre]

I pretty much have a strong dislike for the holiday, for various reasons. The most common reason being its yet another time of the month where all the shops are closed, and I can't go out and do anything over the weekend. I'm not a religious person at all, in any shape of the term. Heck, I think all religions are silly antiquated things that people need to get out of their system before humanity can see some real progress. :p But I too don't look at them as "The enemy of all things good in the world" or some-such, just one of those old traditions people need to grow up and away from. People don't need their various flavors of invisible sky wizard to tuck them in at night. ^^

Like most holidays, I just really don't see the point to them. About all I recognize is Solstice and Equinox, plus New Years. And even for them, its just going "Oh, its *this* period of the year now. Yay." and moving on with my life. ^^

In your case, the whole being allergic to chocolate thing would really add another notch towards not caring about the holiday.

[rooth]

I was a practicing Catholic 'til the age of 8, when my folks started breaking apart

[athelind]

No, I LOVE carob.

Alas, carob goodies have become increasingly difficult to find in recent years, when the people touting it as "healthier than chocolate" realized that carob candies were often packed with saturated fats that chocolate DIDN'T have.

[scarfman]

Oh, I dunno. My characters celebrate. For a few years there we watched Jesus Christ Superstar every Easter. This year scarfgirl and bluegiant are visiting and making us dinner. scarfgirl usually watches The History Channel anyway, so we have on this year's Biblical special marathon. I dunno.