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Religious Holidays in a Secular World?
By Ravenhawk | April 8, 2007
Its always interesting to note the large-scale celebration of Christian holidays, even by people who aren’t religious. For instance, my family is completely atheist, however, I just spent twenty minutes going all over the house trying to find colorful dyed eggs hidden by my dad and little brother.
Regardless of their religious origins, many such holidays are becoming widespread in their celebration in manners that are completely irrelevant. Take my egg hunting. Was it at all related to the resurrection of Christ? No.
In some strange twist, it has become a tradition to paint eggs, hide them, find them, and then eat them. Religious holidays are increasingly being taken over by the nonreligious. Do I think this is bad? Again, no.
But thats probably because, as a Marxist, I applaud the corrosion of organized religion’s hold on the world. And I like eggs.
Until next time, comrades. (When you’ll get something that probably relates more to games and is less whimsical and random in the grammar.)
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