Short answer: Nope. A bit more of an answer: Nope, and let's stop the "Easter is pagan" madness. For the longer answer, keep reading -- both what follows and the article I've linked to. I thought I had posted this last year, but I guess I had not. I want to share a...
Easter
Calculating and Fixing the Date of Easter
I'm once again feeling wearied by all the nonsense (pagan and fundamentalist Christian in equal doses) about how the date of Easter was the result of some sort of deliberate paganizing conspiracy. Personally, I don't like the modern trappings of Easter. A lot of the...
Shroud of Turin Double-Take: Yep, It’s Easter
This headline caught my eye today: "Turin shroud makes rare appearance on TV amid claims that it is not a forgery." Why, you ask? Because last year at precisely this time -- Easter -- basically the same sort of story ran. I blogged it here under the title, "Is 'Jesus...
Just in Time for Easter Cash Flow: The Tomb of Jesus’ Disciples
$imcha Jacobovici has busy. And amazingly, Easter is just around the corner (again). Oh, the irony. The man who brought us the error-plagued Jesus family tomb, then the nails from the cross, now claims that he has found a tomb which held the remains of at least some...