Happy Resurrection Sunday 2015!!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Bushie, I try to be a good Christian too, but as an Asian studies person I'm compelled to point out that Amida Buddha is held to be still alive in the Western Paradise in much the same sense that Jesus is still alive at God's right hand. It's the Resurrection narrative as a whole, in its specifics, that's unique, which is why the specifics deserve to be focused on and benefit from being focused on. Neither the general idea nor the broad outlines are unusual among the world's religions.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Notice how Easter coincides with Passover, the holiday that Jesus was observing when He was killed, and from whose Hebrew name most languages' words for Easter derive.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Very little about it is in any way appreciably more pagan than anything else with its cultural origins in Europe.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Very little about it is in any way appreciably more pagan than anything else with its cultural origins in Europe.

Well, yes. The animal symbolism, the name...

In most countries, those things are 'very little'.