Easter is coming...

Easter is a religious holiday. Not everybody celebrates it. And don't say that Christmas is a religious holiday, because that isn't a valid argument. We had a winter 2014 update. Not xmas. The only link to Christmas was the trees, and having trees like that comes from ancient pagan traditions. And to whoever said that Easter isn't as important as Christmas, you are quite wrong. To those that celebrate both, easter is by far a more religiously important holiday. Christmas is just more popular 'cause presents

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Originally Posted by Tsampsel25

Macy's Day Parade... No Thanksgiving update... Just saying...

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That's a full-blooded "Merican right there.

Halloween is based off of the eve of all saints day. Halloween is techincally all souls day so you dress up to "mock" evil spirts. It was around back in Bible times.

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Originally Posted by ClashGod15

Halloween is based off of the eve of all saints day. Halloween is techincally all souls day so you dress up to "mock" evil spirts. It was around back in Bible times.

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I heard Halloween was originally the day where the evil spirits traveled across the world, so people dressed up like spirits, and the demons flying above them wouldn't notice the difference

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Originally Posted by ClashGod15

Halloween is based off of the eve of all saints day. Halloween is techincally all souls day so you dress up to "mock" evil spirts. It was around back in Bible times.

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My Irish pagan ancestors would dispute that.

Christmas and Easter are celebrated about the same amount, at least among all of my extended family and my friends. Christmas is just more enjoyable for little kids, so it gets more people in the "Christmas Cheer". But on topic about the thread, I think that enough people celebrate Easter, and nobody can really complain about it because nobody complains about the Christmas update... And who doesn't love a 1 gem boost! XD

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Originally Posted by ClashGod15

there a giant creepy bunny that hops around ;)

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Springtrap is that you?

I would like to see an easter special (and I could have sworn they did something about the time last year - but probably didn't advertise it as a an easter special) - the fact is both Halloween and Christmas largely had pagan origins which I think has merit with the nature of the game.

Easter on the other hand does not - it is a christian practice (although obviously others aren't going to have an objection of stuffing their faces with chocolate) Muslims another large religion do not celebrate it as it is one of the fundamental differences between the two religions yes they believed there was a prophet called Jesus but they do not believe he died on the cross. Therefore to avoid a political/religious debacle I think the advertisement of such an event should be avoided. Not saying they can't do something else instead like 'It's spring hollidays.' or 'it's harvest time, time to farm!'

Why don't we just have a Spring Event, unrelated to any religion?

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Originally Posted by ClashGod15

Christmas is religious, if Jesus wasn't born we basically wouldn't celebrate anything, cause the 3 most popular holidays (Christmas, Easter, Halloween) are all based on Christianity.

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Very euro-centric indeed (or christianity-centric, whatever you want to call it). Thats like saying "If we didn't have Taoism we wouldn't have Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festivial, the three most popular holidays. We basically would have no holidays" :facepalm:

In my country, December 25th is Karen New Year- the New Year for an ethnic minority with whom we are having somewhat of a civil war. Some calendars say it is Christmas, others say it is Karen New Year. So even Christmas is seen as a very religious event here.
Side note: since I have been exposed to a lot of Western culture, I understand these holidays a lot more than most non-Christians in my neighbourhood. The other day, I remember that my neighbor was suprised when I told him the history of Santa Claus because he thought Santa Claus was some sort of Christian angel/god/spirit. I realised just how isolated my country had been for the past few decades.

Easter is pretty much unknown to most people here. The thought of a giant rabbit giving eggs in a basket is just sooo confusing to the non-Christians here. I actually didnt know that Easter had something to do with the resurrection of Jesus until I read this thread. I thought it was another wierd Western holiday like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

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Originally Posted by kdrakakis

Why don't we just have a Spring Event, unrelated to any religion?

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I think that OP wants an event in the top half of the year instead of having two holidays back-to-back (kind of) near the end. A Spring Event would be very confusing and would be question what it is. Thus, this doesn't really work. If we can find a holiday that is global and isn't so religious, we might be able to get it in.