A few class periods ago we quickly mentioned Christian holidays and thought about whether Easter or Christmas was the “most important” one to Christians. I wanted to look more into this. Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus and Easter is to celebrate when he died on the cross for sinners. Christmas and Easter both have a season. Christmas can begin with Advent and then the 12 days of Christmas, Christmas day, and Epiphany. Easter has Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter/Resurrection Sunday. In the early church, Easter was thought of as more important because it is when Jesus died and saved sinners and rose from the dead and went to heaven. Personally, I have noticed more emphasis put on Christmas, but I’m also sure that is because its a consumer holiday. In the article I read, people also describe Christmas as more important because it is a time for family and being together with one another. From a non-Christian perspective, I agree with this because my family still celebrates Christmas-time as a time and season to visit family and give back to one another. There is not an answer whether one holiday is more important than the other, but it is interesting to see what people have to say and what they personally think.
https://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/christmas-vs-easter-which-is-more-important/article_97f0dea4-6815-548b-a53c-5264eebff3d5.html