Blessed evening to you, lovely of lovelies! I trust you've had a pleasant day, gorging yourselves on candy and company? Well, as it's late enough in the evening, I'm finally awake and I'm sure some of you are joyfully returned from whatever religious services your family has drug you off to, let's take a moment to reflect on "The Spirit of Easter"...

*smiles* The astute long-time observer will notice that the title of this one is a reference to another comic I posted a couple years ago. This was before we started spending our mornings together on Sundays to enjoy all the goodness that religion has blessed us with. *snerks*

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15286228/

I've been sitting upon this one for a time now. *sets her chin* Not entirely sure why I waited so long to post the lil' bugger but I digress...

Something which I've seen FAR too often in our society is the frankly grotesque evasion, if not the outright re-writing of, our world's history by christianity. *hands up* Now, I'm not singling out christianity by choice, lovely watchers. No. *smiles* I'm sure other religions do a similar thing as their own spheres of influence allow. I unfortunately only have hands-on experience with this one specific group and the frankly appalling way they have buried the horrors and tragedies caused by their "faith" over the years and have stepped up their efforts to normalize doing so in the recent years.

A GREAT example which many people just don't think about would be today, "easter", or as it was known before it was co-opted by christianity "Oestre" or "Ostara" or any of another few dozen names for various Pagan festivals. Unlike the rather quaint episode of "South Park" involving Trey and Matt's rather jovial take on "the origins of easter", it's really not any kind of mystery and never has been, assuming you were willing to look at the truth.

As many of you no doubt already know, the various iconography which seems to just baffle many, the eggs, the bunnies, dancing around poles, even the specific colors and time of the festivity were things which were absorbed by the movement of christianity across Europe. Sometimes it was the soft-sell to absorb a local culture into the fold. *grimaces* Other times it was a much more hideous display of crushing said culture into non-existence in very violent ways we won't be getting into here, dear watchers... The unthinking praise of a jewish carpenter-zombie was a secondary issue, brought into the time-slot much, MUCH later for marketing purposes. *tilts her head side to side in a sing-song manner* Kind of like "TRON- Legacy". And yet, knowing all this, here we are. *claps* Sending our children on hunts for colored eggs and biting the heads off little marsh-mellon confectionery birdies *darkens abruptly* the pain of centuries of indoctrination and destruction buried under frivolity and ignored in place of a much more comfortable rhetoric- namely that somehow, none of that happened. Somehow, lovely watchers, centuries of history was all just made up in recent years by "the devil" or Roald Dahl, ME... whatever...

*sighs, looks sidelong* Personally, if we're going to have a springtime-freshness celebration of fertility I'd rather go back to the fucking in the forests around bonfires while singing songs and wearing festive headgear. I dunno about you *shrugs* That just seems a much better and more honest use of my time to me.


Either way, You do you beautiful watcher. Whether you choose to follow those who lie to you or decide to forge your own way in the world, the reality is, as they say, what it is, and no amount of denial makes 26,000 year-old cave-paintings go away. *smiles* Just be good to one another, dear watchers. Love each other as best you can and maybe get in a chocolate goodie or two. S'all good to me. *bows* One world and one love for us all, you sexy mutha fuckas...