The Empirical Manifesto

Let's Talk about the International Day of Trans Visibility falling on Easter.


The Gregorian calendar was adopted in in the Year of our Lord 1582, which means we've been using it for 442 years. Meanwhile, the celebration of Easter - not a federally recognized holiday (this becomes important later) - has a 3% chance to fall on any date between March 22nd and April 25th (i.e. its highly mobile) because it falls according to a lunisolar calendar, not the Gregorian calendar. The International Trans Day of Visibility is static (means it is a set date (not mobile) on March 31st (first established in 2009). For people who do not struggle with logic, we can conclude that sometimes (or, about 3% of the time in the above date range), the two will coincide. Now, back to what "federally recognized" infers.


Because we are a nation founded on religious freedom - means that among other things, Congress (the legislative branch of the federal (there's that word again) government) cannot (by law) make laws respecting an establishment of religion. Many people who proclaim understanding that a 2nd Amendment exists are seemingly unaware that incrementally-speaking, there cannot be a 2nd Amendment without there first being a...1st Amendment (please don't make me explain how/why we use/apply the Hindu-Arabic numeral system for the purpose of positional integers nor the concept of linear time).


So if you are sincere about snowflaking out over the The International Trans Day of Visibility both falling on, and being recognized by the White House, it would be far more appropriate to point your ire toward Pope Gregory XIII (Gregorian Calendar), Rachel Crandall (Trans Day of Visibility), Indian Mathematicians (Hindu-Arabic numeral system), Post-Civil War Presbyterians (celebration of Easter in the United States), the First Council of Nicaea (subverting Christianity by placing Christ's name upon the pagan celebration), or the founding fathers of the United States of America for the First Amendment. But I do acknowledge blaming Biden is way more TL;DR.

On our local city forum I recently made the comment -

There's not a person on this planet who isn't aware that Easter was celebrated 3000 years before the birth of Christ. Some religions simply choose to believe, contrary to the Old Testament laws on idolatry, that 'incorporating' pagan rituals to bring people to Christ is an acceptable practice when trying to convert non-believers. Ask any minister or preacher - if they've taken seminary courses, they're well versed on its history.

And from it learned that there were indeed people on this planet who were not aware of Easter's origins.

Here we go:

Which came first, the Bunny or the Egg?

Pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons worshiped the spring (seasonal 'rebirth') goddess Ēostre (Easter), the goddess of fertility, throwing lavish celebrations for her on the Vernal (Spring) Equinox - the birth of Spring. Her animal was the hare (or rabbit - an ancient pagan fertility symbol) which was associated with another ancient pagan symbol of fertility, the egg - which more specifically symbolized the rebirth of the land in spring.

Appointing Jesus (the "fisher" of men) to divinity during the rise of the zodiacal Age of Pisces as the new "Sun God" ('Son' of God) of this astrological age and wanting to compromise with the pagans this change (while keeping in the spirit of the rebirth festival) the Christian faith adopted the egg (and the Easter Bunny) as representations of the resurrection of Christ - the rebirth. During Spring. Vernal Equinox.

And just like three thousand years before Christ, the Egyptians worshiped a deity who was born of a virgin on December 25th indicated by a star in the East, followed by three kings, and who was able to perform miracles such as walking on water and turning water into wine and had 12 "disciples" and was later betrayed, crucified, and buried - and after three days, resurrected, 3000 years before Christ, so it is with Ēostre, who had different names throughout other pre-Christian cultures. For example, the ancient Babylonian fertility goddess was named Ishtar - however, her story is identical - bunnies and eggs. All these events are similar because they're all based on the ancient understanding and celebration of the seasons, which brings us back to the Vernal Equinox.

This is not an opinion: Easter is 100% pagan in its origin.

That is all.