Well, Bubba, if you want to claim the invention, it’s your business, but didn’t the God we both claim start the whole business by pulling a few nasty tricks on the Egyptians so they’d kick your people out of Egypt? And then what do Jews do? They make a permanent celebration out of it. Call it Pesach or Passover, add food and drink! A must for a celebration.

And if it’s a celebration, Christians gotta have it, so they come up with one that times out at about the same time as the Jewish version, add bunnies and eggs to go along with the Pagans’ rites of Spring, call it Easter, a name taken from a Pagan celebration, and we all got us a holiday season we can all be proud of!

With a happy whatever to you, some Americans also add the following comments:

“As a wavering Christian and occasional rationalist, I’ve always found Easter (which I sometimes think of as the New Testament’s Passover 2.0) a singularly problematic holiday, both in its cheery, secularized aspects and its grisly, credulity-straining religious form…”

via The Way We Live Now – Great Expectations – NYTimes.com.

Nice Jewish girl to Goyam boy friend: “So, what does the Easter bunny have to do with the holiday?

Well, that’s a good question, and I’m glad you asked. You see, we Catholics believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He died for our sins, you know. Anyway, he was crucified and then, three days later he was resurrected and ascended into Heaven to sit at the right hand of God…”

via Y.P.R.: Trying to Explain the Easter Bunny to My Orthodox Jewish Girlfriend.

And smack dab in the middle of it all, Apple drops its latest cult-follower magnet, the iPad. Never mind that the sheer numbers of iThis and iThat gizmos has become as thick as the locusts God used to smite the Egyptians – So thick we can hardly bear to dot another i, much less sort out all the iNames they’ve been given. The cult MUST have another iSomething to cling to.

And so we get stuff like this: “I have no idea what he’ll do with it,” said Jessica Panzica, 30, waiting in line at the Apple store in downtown San Francisco for her husband, who could not pick up his iPad because he had a ham-radio class. “I’m sure he’ll use it a lot, whatever it is. He told me I’m not allowed to open it.”

via Across U.S., Apple Fans Buy the First iPads – NYTimes.com.

Anyhow… happy Easter, happy Passover – what’s left of it – and happy whatever that name is that all you Pagans allowed the Christians to clone.