Happy Easter!

All of this holiday stuff is getting out of control! How does Easter, one of the major Christian holidays, end up turning into the Easter Bunny, Easter lights hanging in trees and God knows what else.

It turns out that the Easter Bunny is actually part of a pre-Christian tradition honoring fertility. And the Easter lights are part of the current tradition of companies getting rich off of holidays and suckers. And yet we have all these good Christians, going to Church on Easter Sunday and tricking their children into believing that a large mythical bunny rabbit brings them candy and eggs. Bunch of pagan hypocrites.

Of course I've been sucked into the whole Easter Bunny thing with my child, but how can you not? As an agnostic/atheist/Buddhist, I still celebrate the imaginary parts of the holidays because it's fun. But I feel bad about setting up my child for major disappointment in the future.

Yesterday, while discussing the Easter Bunny with my daughter, she said "Dad, the Easter Bunny is not a real rabbit, it's a man in a suit." I agree that it makes slightly more sense that a man in a suit would bring candy to our house than some mythical creature. It sort of jibes well with the Santa myth that way.

But eventually, nothing but disappointment is in store as the myth of good-natured magical people comes crashing down. It's only a matter of time.

And speaking of religion, I saw an article the other day saying that as people get older, they get more religious. The study surveyed a bunch of people and found that older people were more religious than younger people.

I think it's dumb to think that this means people get more religious as they get older. It's a bad interpretation of a survey.

The more obvious and likely situation is that as time moves forward, technology advances, improved education, etc., people become more immune to religious myths.

So if 30 percent of young people are religious and 60 percent of old people are. When those young people are older, it is unlikely that they would become more religious. I would argue that we will find that those young people will be less religious and future generations even more so until eventually religion dies out.