A really good article on why commercialism has not gotten a hold of Easter yet. Some of my favourite quotes from the article:-

…The Easter story is relentlessly disconcerting and, in a way, is the antithesis of the Christmas story…

Even agnostics and atheists who don’t accept Christ’s divinity can accept the general outlines of the Christmas story with little danger to their worldview. But Easter demands a response.

It’s hard for a non-Christian believer to say, “Yes, I believe that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, died, was buried, and rose from the dead.” That’s not something you can believe without some serious ramifications: If you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, this has profound implications for your spiritual and religious life—really, for your whole life. If you believe the story, then you believe that Jesus is God, or at least God’s son. What he says about the world and the way we live in that world then has a real claim on you.

Easter is an event that demands a “yes” or a “no.” There is no “whatever.”

Isn’t that true? Although Christmas is the birth of Christ, it is what He did 33 years later for us on that cross, where He suffered and died… actually, why are we even celebrating so much suffering?! All this makes Easter even more mind-boggling but more intriguing. Is that an oxymoron?

Down with the Easter bunnies!