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]

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).)