Talk:Easter traditions

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Suggest adding some link to easter_parade and easter bonnet

EdwardLane (talk) 15:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I am an atheist, and it was my idea to separate the Easter article into separate Christian and Secular articles, because otherwise, if you merged them into one article, the Christians will make sure that the first 90% of the article talks only about Jesus, and everything else having to do with Easter will be relegated to some minor postscript, an afterthought at best. Do you have any doubt in your mind that's what the Christians will do? It would be much better to have separate articles. For the vast majority of Americans, Easter is a big holiday. Kids get a week out of school. Kids visit the Easter Bunny at the mall similar to how they visit Santa Claus during the Christmas season. Despite the fact that Easter is huge holiday in the U.S., Most Americans are barely aware that there even is a Christian aspect to the holiday. Easter was a huge big deal for me when I was a kid but I was in high school when I found out for the very first time that Easter supposedly had something to do with Jesus. The Rankin & Bass specials for Christmas mention the baby Jesus, such in "Drummer Boy" and "Nestor". The Rankin & Bass specials for Easter, such as "The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town", and "Peter Cottontail", make absolutely no indirect reference to Jesus. There are Christmas decorations that show the Nativity. Have you ever seen an Easter decoration showing the Crucifixion? An atheist would be aware that Christians think Christmas has something to do with Christianity. An atheist would not even be aware that Easter supposedly has anything to do with Christianity. We should definitely not merge the articles on Easter. Let the Christians have their article on Easter, and we can have our article on Easter.

Is this neutral point of view?

Not to be a troll - but various easter pages have had huge debates about Easter and whether it is christian or pagan or jewish (and or any other religion) Ive seen a variety of different opinions.

I think it's wikipedia policy that the articles are written from a neutral perspective. So it's probably against wikipedia policy starting the article with the phrase 'As with many other Christian dates' (as that is an issue of debate) and also saying 'even many non christians celebrate these aspects' as that suggests (implicitly) that 'greeting cards' and 'egg rolling' (amongst others) are christian customs (which also seems debatable)

I think this page was originally split out to cover 'secular easter customs' with a link back to Easter for 'christian easter observances' and presumably similar links to Passover and Eostre so I'm adding a template to the main article flagging up the lack of a neutral pov EdwardLane (talk) 20:10, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

This will help shed some light. Eggs were pagan symbols of new physical life (aka. new crops and the start of a new season). http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/easter.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.58.111.189 (talk) 14:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Secular Easter

"This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity"

Why, dear fellow editor, I ask thee?

The very presence of this article is an embarrassment to Wikipedia. Let me explain.

It must be recognized that Easter is no longer principally a religious holiday, at least for much of the English speaking world. At some point, we must build a consensus that will provide for this article to be appropriately merged with the Easter article, and its sections placed on equal footing with the also-valid Christian elements.

Christians here have been allowed to retain an appropriation of Easter, and contain the secular elements safely away in a different article. Never mind all those irritating facts of history, never mind the Easter Bunny, you must respect the day that Jesus rose from the dead.

If a child, enthusiastic with her chocolate bunny, types "Easter" into Google, does the community want her to be faced by an article that presents it as an entirely religious observance? Controlling the "facts" is the beginnings of indoctrination, and - dear fellow editor - it must be fought.

bad·monkey _{talk to the {:()} :: 07:39, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Having an article within the scope of WikiProject Christianity doesn't mean that Easter is purely Christian, merely that Christianity has an interest in the topic of Easter; I don't think that this is an unreasonable supposition. I'm also not sure how one might retain an appropriation, but perhaps 7 years is long enough for the issue to have cooled. Klbrain (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Easter traditions - move or redirect ?

I searched for this article with the search words "Easter traditions", and didn't find it that way. Would it be an idea to either move the article to "Easter traditions" or make a page "Easter traditions" that redirects to Easter customs ? Regards, Iselilja (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Creative Arts

Easter holiday in rhyming words — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.232.223 (talk) 18:09, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge from Fasika

In February 2022, HolaHello2 proposed that Fasika be merged to this article. They went ahead and merged the content, but did not redirect that page to this one, and it's still a standalone article (and flagged since February about the proposed merge). I don't think we need to keep/maintain (nearly) the same information in both places, but there was never an established discussion for the proposed merge (the {{Merge to}} template, heretofore, simply linked to this talk page). We could just as well pare down the content on this page, and link back to Fasika with {{Further}}. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:41, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Agree that we can just use WP:SUMMARY format here, so have removed the merge template; a template:main is already in place. Klbrain (talk) 19:43, 23 August 2022 (UTC)