Should Christians Celebrate Easter?
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Description: A brief overview of the historical celebration of Easter within the early church.
Should Christians Celebrate Easter? Should Christians Celebrate Easter? This title may appear to be strange to some readers because if there were ever a festival that has all the trappings of being Christian in origin, it would seem that Easter (and the week preceding it from Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday) would be the paramount celebration of the Christian community. Indeed, upon analysis, the rite of Easter would appear to be of greater importance than the happy time of Christmas because Easter commemorates the central doctrine of all Christendom that Christ Jesus was certainly resurrected from the dead to become the Savior of the world. If there was ever a festival that one could call "Christian," then Easter appears to be a chief candidate. Yet there is an official ruling adopted by the Christian authorities in the fourth century that shows a very dark side to the origin of the festival in its present form. Instead of provoking an intense and understandable happiness to the Christian believer in the knowledge that Christ has risen from the dead (which is a wonderful fact to commemorate and to foster), it is the underlying dark side to the "Easter" celebration that needs to be jettisoned from Christian worship. What is that "dark side"?
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