Talk:Easter

Autumn

"It occurs during the spring, in and around the month of April." Can someone please edit that? It occurs in the Autumn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.201.34.143 (talk) 05:16, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Easter does not occur in autumn. ZabiggyZoo (talk) 20:05, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, maybe it does if you're in Australia.... :) Do they reverse the seasons down under? ~Amatulić (talk) 23:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Lead section

The lead section of this article, which should be one of main articles about Christianity, is simply below standard. I am not enough knowledgeable, both with English terminology and the topic to edit it myself, but someone please address the issues:

• Some[who?] Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday.

  Which Christians do not celebrate Easter on this day? Most do, and the "some" is highly misleading. We should state the global facts first, and exceptions only later, depending on significance.

The plain truth is that the vast majority of Christians celebrate Easter on this day. "Some" is flat-out dishonest. This should be fixed. One can consult every Christian group in the world, and those that represent well over 90% of Christians will agree that Easter Sunday is the day in which the Resurrection of Christ is celebrated.ZabiggyZoo (talk) 20:05, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

• Why are Good Friday and, worse still, Maundy Thursday, relevant for the date of Easter? If anything, the Friday and Thursdays are ones which by definition come before the Easter, not the other way round? The whole sentence is upside down.

• Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. The week from Palm Sunday to Easter is known as Holy Week. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of fasting, prayer, and penance.

  I am not aware that anyone refers to Eastertide as the Easter. Why is so relevant for the lead how the two weeks surrounding it are called? Why is it not in chronological order:

  Easter marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of the Lent is called "Holy week", and it contains Good Friday, observed before the Easter Sunday. Easter is followed by fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, which lasts until the Pentecost Sunday.

• Secular customs, such as the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts, have become part of the holiday's modern celebrations and are often observed by Christians and non-Christians alike. There are also some Christian denominations who do not celebrate Easter. (See section below.)

  Apples and oranges. Both facts are worth mentioning, but not in the same paragraph.

No such user (talk) 07:27, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit request

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The text "Some Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday" should be replaced by "The vast majority of Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday". Rationale: It's the truth. "Some" in English almost always means a quantity short of the majority. As any amount of research on modern Christian practices will reveal, the vast majority (indeed, probably over 90%) of Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ on Easter. The use of "some" is blatantly dishonest.ZabiggyZoo (talk) 22:52, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

 Done but not the way you asked. "Vast majority" is an inappropriate term. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I daresay that any Christians who disregard Easter are not really Christians. The Resurrection is central to the Christian religion. Without that, it's just a "philosophy", not a religion. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:10, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Commercial Easter

Don't suppose we could get a separate page or even a paragraph dedicated to easter as a children's holiday/candy holiday.