Sitting At The Foot of the Mountain - Christmas and Its Secular Cousin: Easter
The ongoing effort to drive Christ out of Christmas and Easter seems to be winning. Christmas is about trees and presents and food and shopping. All you have to do is look at that brawls at the various stores around the country to know that the holiday has nothing to do with spirituality or "good will toward men."
Then comes Easter a scant few months later. Now Easter has joined it holiday cousin in the parallel universe of secularized holidays. Eggs, bunnies, chicks, wreaths, ham dinners, gift baskets and gathering together (without the guilt-tripping that Christmas brings if you can't make it).
There you have it: Easter without Christ.
The message of Christmas, Immanuel's ("God with us") invasion into a sin-steeped planet, and Easter, where Immanuel took on that very planet's sins, bore them, shed His blood over them, and gave freedom to those who ask Him, is the core of Easter.
But that message is lost to the ruler of this world's endless effort to drive Christianity to the margins of Western culture.
Once something is marginalized, it is far easier to eliminate it. That is what I am seeing today.
Click thru for more. Hat tip to Clayton Cramer.
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