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What makes you say that? Easter is now so entrenched with the death and resurrection of christ that it's origins as a spring festival are pretty well fully divorced from the modern meaning now. The church set the rules for determining Easter Sunday.
It's on Sunday every year, the day Christians go to church specifically to celebrate the resurrection.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/30/why-easter-celebrated-eggs-bunny-rabbits/73108158007/
This article interview talked to a professor from Notre Dame that goes over a ton of this and the significance of eggs.
The Catholic Church: Co-opts a pagan holiday and re-brands it
Two millennia of tradition: Mix pagan imagery with Christian imagery
Nonbelievers: Co-opt it back without the explicitly Christian imagery
You: Nooooooo it's religious!
The Church has had an iron fist over much of my continent for near two millenia, so of course you can find a religious tie for every holiday (except the First of May probably). However my family is almost completely non believing and we've always celebrated Christmas and Easter, with Coca-Cola Santa and no Mass. Why this laic co-optation is so controversial I will never understand.
looks like they have tried to take that one as well. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_devotions_to_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary
Yeah your family is not the masses so "in its popular celebration" ain't quite right.
Sure, but for my childhood it was about being with family, getting chocolate, finding eggs, and maybe getting a spring jacket.
And as an adult it's still just chocolate and a nice meal with family. So while it does mean Jesus to those who believe in that stuff it also means something else to a lot of us.