DISCUSSION: Easter

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.

The Easter Bunny, Easter Eggs, Easter lilies, and the coming of Spring are all symbols of new life. That is to say, Christ’s new life after His crucifixion, and our new life due to His crucifixion and resurrection.

So our discussion topic for this weekend is simply “Easter.” Say whatever you want to say about it–memories, insights, thoughts, questions, testimonials, prayers, thanksgivings, recipes, family customs, experiences, etc., etc. All things Easter.