Though I am not in any way religious, it always strikes me how odd Easter celebrations are. I know perfectly why we celebrate the resurrection of a messiah with chocolate bunnies and Cadbury "Death" Eggs. Nevertheless, it causes me to think of all the odd ways we celebrate ancient holidays. For instance:Holiday - Commemoration - How We Celebrate
Easter - Death and resurrection of Jesus - We eat chocolate eggs and rabbits
Christmas - the birth of God made flesh - We max out our credit cards
Hanukkah - the triumph of the macabees - we max out our credit cards
Halloween - the thinning of the veil between the living and dead - We let our children disguise themselves as cartoon characters and beg for candy
St. Patrick's Day - the death of St. Patrick - we pretend we are Irish and drink until we wish we were as dead as he
Thanksgiving - celebration of people who left intolerance behind and found liberty in a new life - we go visit people whom we can barely tolerate and whom we escaped in order to have a free life
Valentine's Day - A fertility festival - small children give each other pieces of paper with bad puns on them
May Day - a fertility festival where a phallic symbol is erected and danced around - in socialist countries, phallic symbols are dragged in military processions and we salute them.
Labor Day - honoring working people - we get a day off
New Year's Day - we welcome a new year - we spend the day regretting what we did on the last night of the old year
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