Fixing the date of Easter

[floo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12102278/Easter-date-to-be-fixed-within-next-five-to-10-years.html

I think it is daft that the date of Easter hasn't been fixed before now. Christmas is a fixed date even though it is highly unlikely Jesus was born on that date.

Some schools are already fixing their Spring terms dates without taking Easter into consideration, which seems sensible.

[ad_orientem]

I don't see what the problem with a movable date is, seeing as to can work out the dates for Easter for the next million years if you wanted to. Keep it movable.

[floo]

I don't see what the problem with a movable date is, seeing as to can work out the dates for Easter for the next million years if you wanted to. Keep it movable.

Why?

[Owlswing]

Why?

Becasue Ad_O says that it is the way HIS god wants it! And, of course, everyone else, religious and atheists must do what they are told by god's messenger the Holy Ad_O!

[ad_orientem]

Why?

Because Easter is a movable feast, linked to the Hebrew lunar calendar. Break the link and it's not Easter anymore, just spring break, man, yeah!

[jeremyp]

I don't see what the problem with a movable date is, seeing as to can work out the dates for Easter for the next million years if you wanted to. Keep it movable.

In the UK, the problem is that it is a holiday which means that the school term between Christmas and Easter can be either very short, very long or somewhere in between.

Personally, I don't really care if it's fixed or not. It's moved around for my entire life without causing me any serious problems.

[SusanDoris]

Bearing in mind that I haven't got that many years to bother about what date it is I think it will be a bit boring not to have to think about which days the shops will be closed etc!!!

[Gordon]

A fixed date would be useful for those planning holidays, which involves schools too, and since the date is variable now then no date is 'special', so I can't see that fixing it should be a problem.

[ad_orientem]

A fixed date would be useful for those planning holidays, which involves schools too, and since the date is variable now then no date is 'special', so I can't see that fixing it should be a problem.

Eh? Problem planning? Bollocks! As I said, you can work out the date for Easter for the next million years and more (barring any cosmic disaster).

[Gordon]

Even so, if it were say the second full week in every April, plus a PH on the following Monday, why would that be a problem - it might be more convenient since school terms wouldn't vary just because of lunar phases.

[floo]

Because Easter is a movable feast, linked to the Hebrew lunar calendar. Break the link and it's not Easter anymore, just spring break, man, yeah!

As I said before, Christmas is a fixed date, and it is highly unlikely Jesus was born on that day, so why does it matter if Easter is celebrated on a fixed date too, as no one knows for sure on which day he was supposedly crucified?

[Aruntraveller]

Still its nice to know that on some issues they fan consider going against tradition and precedent;-)

[ad_orientem]

As I said before, Christmas is a fixed date, and it is highly unlikely Jesus was born on that day, so why does it matter if Easter is celebrated on a fixed date too, as no one knows for sure on which day he was supposedly crucified?

I firmly belive Christ was born on or around the date we crlebrate the feast. Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover. This is not an accidental link. Easter loses much of its significance if it is no longer linked to the Passover.

[Hope]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12102278/Easter-date-to-be-fixed-within-next-five-to-10-years.html

I think it is daft that the date of Easter hasn't been fixed before now. Christmas is a fixed date even though it is highly unlikely Jesus was born on that date.

Some schools are already fixing their Spring terms dates without taking Easter into consideration, which seems sensible.

This headline is probably a copy of one 20-odd years ago. It's been under discussion for years.  Furthermore, schools have been setting their term dates without taking Easter into account since at least when I first started teaching.

Regarding the fixing of Christmas, that was easy because it was never tied to a given pre-existing event, such as Passover is.

[Hope]

Becasue Ad_O says that it is the way HIS god wants it! And, of course, everyone else, religious and atheists must do what they are told by god's messenger the Holy Ad_O!

Good to see your sarcasm, Matt.  Sad to see how transparent and pathetic it is.

[Hope]

A fixed date would be useful for those planning holidays, which involves schools too, and since the date is variable now then no date is 'special', so I can't see that fixing it should be a problem.

But as I pointed out before, some schools and Local Authorities have been ignoring it in their planning for as long as I can remember.

[Owlswing]

Good to see your sarcasm, Matt.  Sad to see how transparent and pathetic it is.

Not quite as pathetic as Ad_O's insistance that everything be set for everybody, regardless of religious belief, by his religious beliefs.

[Hope]

As I said before, Christmas is a fixed date, and it is highly unlikely Jesus was born on that day, so why does it matter if Easter is celebrated on a fixed date too, as no one knows for sure on which day he was supposedly crucified?

Floo this is probably the least correct statement you've ever made.  Historians know that Christ was crucified immediately before Passover.  Which year, and therefore exactly which date that was, is actually irrelevant.  The event is tied to the date of Passover, which is a moveable feast.  This is also where Matt's sarcastic comment is shown to be so daft - Easter isn't tied to a 'Christian' event, but to a Jewish one.

[ad_orientem]

Not quite as pathetic as Ad_O's insistance that everything be set for everybody, regardless of religious belief, by his religious beliefs.

Don't like it? Move out of Europe. Europe is Christian.

[Hope]

Not quite as pathetic as Ad_O's insistance that everything be set for everybody, regardless of religious belief, by his religious beliefs.

Sorry, it's far more pathetic than ad-o's comment, since ad-o points out that the Christian event is closely tied to a Jewish event.

[Hope]

Don't like it? Move out of Europe. Europe is Christian.

Has Europe ever been 'Christian', ad-0?  Can a geo-political entity have a religion? 

[Shaker]

Don't like it? Move out of Europe. Europe is Christian.

You can't have been almost anywhere in Europe in a long, long time.

[Owlswing]

Floo this is probably the least correct statement you've ever made.  Historians know that Christ was crucified immediately before Passover.  Which year, and therefore exactly which date that was, is actually irrelevant.  The event is tied to the date of Passover, which is a moveable feast.  This is also where Matt's sarcastic comment is shown to be so daft - Easter isn't tied to a 'Christian' event, but to a Jewish one.

Really Hope!

It was Ad_O who said it had to remain moveable because it was fixed at Passover - read what I said - I said his religious beliefs not that the belief was Christian!

[Owlswing]

Sorry, it's far more pathetic than ad-o's comment, since ad-o points out that the Christian event is closely tied to a Jewish event.

Hope, if I said that 2/6 was half-a-crown you would disagree purely because it was me that said it!

You are just so obvious! But then acting as someone else's back-up in attacking me at every opportunity is also bloody obvious.

[2Corrie]

I firmly belive Christ was born on or around the date we crlebrate the feast. Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover. This is not an accidental link. Easter loses much of its significance if it is no longer linked to the Passover.

Yep

Reminds me of Daniel 7:25