Ignorance is...

[andrewducker]

Apparently only 22% of people know that Easter is about Jesus.

At least, that's what the article says. If you look at the actual questions that got that result, it's clear that only 22% of the population _care_ about Jesus and his relationship with The Easter Bunny.

[Poll #1371630]

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I agree.

I'd be interested to know what those levels are, mind you.

Hmm, what about people who think that the holiday is to 'celebrate Spring'? Are they basically right, or ill informed because they don't know the history?

Hmmm

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

They're right, of course. Did the Easter Bunny die in vain?

The purpose of the holiday is not a fixed thing, or in any way dependent on the contingencies of history; it's why it's re-performed now, this year. So every reason to celebrate is valid for that celebrant - unlike a question about "Why do we celebrate Easter on moveable dates as we do?", for which answers are historically bound and can be described as true ofr false.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Yes but the fact that it is a public holiday has to have a reason, surely?

Maybe I'm just hung up because it's the only Bank Holiday we get! (except the December ones)

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Sure the holiday has a reason. The slow and opposed rise of the Victorian and Edwardian working class which eventually won the Factory Acts, other legislative relief, and the bank holidays. (Until 1871, there was a common-law holiday on Good Friday, but no statute law applied (taken from Wikipedia).)