Easter, it has been said, is the Christian holiday that Christians have mostly to themselves. Unlike Christmas, Halloween, St. Valentine’s Day, the secular world hasn’t co-opted it so much.
Contrary to what we keep being told, Easter did NOT derive from a pagan fertility festival. But even if it did, fertility is the LAST thing today’s secularists want to celebrate. Fertility has to do with engendering new life. Today’s secularists want sex, but they do not generally want babies, going to the extraordinary lengths of preventing birth and when that fails aborting their own children. That is to say, they want sterility, not fertility. So it’s up to Christians to celebrate fertility.
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