I Hate to be boring and add a serious answer to an otherwise interesting thread, but it's because it's linked to the Jewish festival of Passover. And Passover is linked to the lunar calendar.
Basically Jesus' last week alive coincided with passover, and so Easter still coincides with passwover (with some complications IIRC).
While some bits of Easter may be pagan (eggs and bunnies etc) the date isn't, it's Jewish. Sorry!
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Zak33 (07-02-2008)
coool.....so I'm getting proper answers now
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
yeah, bor-ing!
I'm off to join the chuch of Cheesus Christ & the after dinner mints!
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Because God moves in mysterious ways....
For the win!!
If you take the socio-theological (and essentially atheistic) view that most religions are organic and they all crib off each other anyway, you can trace back a lot of festivals to cheese and dung worshiping paganism.
Last edited by Salazaar; 08-02-2008 at 11:35 AM. Reason: swapped moon for cheese for comedic value
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I heard it was part of the bargaining process. The dinosaurs would only accept being moved to the moon if they at least had some recognition.
As you know, dinosaurs control where the moon goes and so, get to decide when easter sunday is.
I think you'll find that the Toast King controls the moon... On the Moon - Weebl's Stuff
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Whilst Easter may coincide with passover in concept the position of the festival is more linked to the pagan festival for the goddess of fertility, Eoster, or Eos, held on the first full moon after the Spring Equiniox.
Simply enough, everyone used to use a lunar calender.
However, a lunar year is not the same length as a solar year.
So all of the dates would slip.
There was a long history of people trying to get a solar calender adopted across europe. But they all suffered from the same flaw, they also slipped!
The modern calender has leap years to account for the slip, and STILL needs to be manually 'bumped' every few centuries to stay in sync with the seasons/earths orbit.
see this for details:
Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The moon's really in charge
it controls tidal forces, and also has various links with superstitions throughout the ages and when it used to pass by and block the sun for a few minutes - early earth dwellers used to fall upon their knees, crying for the eternal darkness to pass and even sacrificing their mother-in-law or three so the sun starts to shine again.
All hail the moon...
The moon who is powerful and wise!
Anyone else thing God droped the ball on the moon? The Earth is an amazing blue marble, Jupiter with its cloud bands and giant red spot, Saturn with is rings... the moon is just a grey blob.
I reckon the Sopranos was just starting when he was doing the moon, so the bitch phoned it in.
Now we have to live with it.
Bring back the Devil I say.
Love this thread <3
Anyway what does Jesus have anything to do with christmas and easter? Christmas is about santa claus, getting lotsa pressies and eating turkey, easter is about cute bunny wabbits and getting lots of chocolate eggs. Mmmmmm... Turkey and chocolate eggs.
I forgot about the cranberry sauce part.
like your average shopping trolley then?Because God moves in mysterious ways....
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