Should we celebrate Easter?
SHOULD WE CELEBRATE EASTER? If you have been in any supermarket lately you may have noticed a wide selection of Easter Eggs. One can see not only Easter eggs, but chocolate bunnies, chicks, and delicious Easter cakes. When I was younger, I was told that the hollow Easter Egg represented the “Empty Tomb.” So what then of the bunny and the chick? Nobody could give an adequate answer. Sadly, later in life I learned that these symbols have less to do with that great morning of the Resurrection and more to do with “Eostre.” Eostre was an Anglo-Saxon goddess. She was the goddess of the dawn and spring. In the early middle ages they celebrated her feast days with eggs, bunnies/hare ornaments and round decorated cakes. She represented fertility and the end of winter. The idea of a goddess of spring dates back to very ancient times. The ancient Romans had the goddess Flora. The festivals for Flora would have been similar to that of the hippy festi...