Episode 201
If you are a new reader, you might want to subscribe to “Holiday Wars” as well as start reading it from the beginning. Once you’re caught up on the main storyline then checkout the side stories in “Tales of Holiday’s Past.”
For those of you who don’t know, Arbor Day was first observed back in 1872. Easter on the other hand dates back to at least 200 B.C. (it was originally a pagan holiday). So to The Bunny, Wallace would seem pretty darn young.
Note: I asked you guys what webcomics you are reading and I need more of you to answer!
I could argue with you about Easter. Christmas was definitely originally a pagan holiday, but Easter originated around 3000 BC as the Jewish Passover.
Passover is very different from Easter. The only thing the two holidays really have in common is that they take place at a similar time of the year. Otherwise they are fully separate holidays.
The focal point of Passover is celebrating the ancient Israelites freedom from Egyptian slavery. That's how the Holiday began (the name "Passover" is a reference to the 10th plague) and how it is still celebrated today. It hasn't really changed that much and it doesn't have anything to do with the christian holiday of Easter.
Not entirely true. Christian Easter commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus. The sacrifice of the passover lamb is a symbol which pointed forward in time to this event. In fact, a number of ancient Hebrew holidays are prophetic and point to some sort of future fulfillment.
I disagree. Christmas was scheduled over a pagan holiday with the intention of detracting from it. Many of the traditions which seem to have arisen from pagan practices were intended as their exact opposite. The Christmas tree, for example, is a conifer (a symbol of eternal life) and is brought inside. The pagan practice was to go out into the woods and decorate a deciduous tree.
Interesting weapon, there. Does it transmogrify based on the apparent threat level of the target?
looks like mr bunny still has a few tricks up his sleeve judging from the act.
Easter was originally a Druidic pagan holiday of western Europe, celebrating spring and rebirth. Rabbits are a symbol of fertility, and eggs are a symbol of life. The holiday was indeed transformed into it's Christian form when they came in to concor the local population, which they most often did by absorbing their religious holidays and thusly turned the pagan pratices into christian ones.