Here we are again in the Easter season, and the stores are filled with Easter Bunnies, Easter cards and Easter Eggs, trying to be as big a commercial success as the other season that also used to be a pagan religious event, Christmas.

There are still many Christians who believe that it is part of the original Christian religion to observe Lent, "Holy Week," "Good Friday," to buy hot cross buns at the bakery, to have colored eggs, to dress up and go to Church on Easter Sunday, perhaps to attend an Easter sunrise service! They haven’t examined their belief system, or its origins.

Here we are in the Easter season, and the stores are filled with Easter Bunnies, Easter cards and Easter Eggs, trying to be as big a commercial success as the other season that used to be a religious event, Christmas.

Easter tide has been celebrated all over the world for thousands of years. Jesus isn’t the reason for this season either. It isn’t a Christian festival, merely one that the Christians took over for the Church because the pagans wouldn’t give it up.
It is most likely based in Europe on the spring equinox festival of the goddess Eostre. She was the great mother goddess of the Saxons of Northern Europe.