Ya'll already know if you are of the JESUS persuasion... the Christian world is set to celebrate its version of the Spring Holy High Holiday... and it's called EASTER.
Much like the PASSOVER, it's a high holiday. Perhaps more important to the believers than the "CHRISTMAS" but, truth, the greeting card companies control how we think and emotionally feel in this world we live in, so CHRISTMAS or X-MAS or the HOLIDAYS kinda eclipse the EASTER.
However, the EASTER is about the BIG difference between the Christian types and the Jewish types. On Easter, the CHRIST, after an inhuman, torture-based punishment for some sort of trumped up BS charges, who was tried in a suspect trial yet died to, upon reason and belief, according to the Christians, be the final sacrifice for the transgressions of a lifetime, otherwise known as 'SINS,' would die at the hands of some mob. However, the story of Easter involves the Christ, a deity, the son of the God of the Christian and Jewish and Islamic faiths, refusing to die, and after three days, Jesus, the Nazarene Christ Child, who performed what many people call the final sacrifice, decided to raise up and shake off some death and torture, to return from the place of the dead to life.
The story is so compelling an entire branch of the world's major religions, was based on this story.
Christ. He was and is a straight-up supernatural force who is also a humanitarian-based gangsta for good. And what.
Here are some other fun facts about EASTER...
• It is believed that the holiday is called Easter after the Germanic goddess Eastre, who ushered in spring and was the goddess of fertility.
• In the 1700s, German immigrants brought over their tradition of a rabbit that laid eggs called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Traditionally, children would make nests (which is where we get our Easter baskets from) for the Easter bunny to leave its eggs in. Like setting out cookies for Santa Claus, kids left a carrot for the Easter Bunny to enjoy. Eventually, traditions changed to include candies and small gifts in our modern Easter baskets.
• Eggs are a symbol of new life and rebirth, which is fitting for the Christian holiday celebrating Jesus’s resurrection, which is one reason we hunt for eggs on Easter. Another reason is that, during the Lenten season, meat and animal byproducts were forbidden, meaning that people couldn’t enjoy eggs for 40 days and 40 nights. When Easter came, people would celebrate by decorating the eggs and then eating them to celebrate Easter and the end of their fast.
• There are some other theories as to why we dye eggs in celebration of Easter. The first and most obvious is that coloring the eggs brilliant colors helps usher in spring. The other is that in the 13th century, King Edward I ordered 450 eggs to be decorated and handed out as gifts, which could have started a the tradition in Europe.
• Easter candy production nearly rivals Halloween’s.
• 500 million Cadbury Eggs are made per year.
• 16 billion jelly beans get made in the United States each year.
• 91 million chocolate bunnies are sold in the United States each year.
And... chocolate.