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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-03-25 10:58 am

Ignorance is...

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]

[identity profile] sigmonster.livejournal.com 2009-03-25 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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).)