The Season

It struck me funny that even on a supposed holiday, there were people upset on the internet. The moveable feast that is Easter landed on March 31 this year. It is a floating holiday. Next year it is going to land on April 20, which amuses me for an entirely different set , but obvious, reasons.

The reason for upset, this time, was that the International Day of Transgender Visibility fell on March 31, as it has since its inception. Now, Easter is a curious random catch-all. While basically admitting anything is possible, Easter strikes me as a bit of an amalgamated holiday, swiping a little here, a little there. “Oestre, the Goddess of Light, brings fertility with the spring. This is the root of the word oestrus, the time of an animals sexual cycle when it is fertile, and oestrogen is the hormone stimulating ovulation. The Church overlaid this festival with Easter and it’s theme of rebirth and resurrection from death. It’s timing is based on the old lunar calendar : the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, formerly the pregnant phase of Oestre passing into the fertile season.” [Source: Sacred Celebrations by Glennie Kindred.]

I included this not to insult observers, but to point out that customs and rituals are something get seriously fetished.

That’s all fine. Whatever you do in your house, you do, you know, you. It just seems the whole thing and its theme of rebirth was more convenient than actually factual. But if you dig story, cool. Have at it. Seems little odd that since that date has some flux to it, it seems a little strict to think of it so sacrosanct to not raise the point that if there was a resurrection, that would be a rather fixed point not something that would flow.

Setting all that aside, wouldn’t follow that the faith that espouses loving thy neighbor (without anything restrictive in that language) have no problem with the fixed on the calendar recognition of all people. Either we love our neighbors or we are picking and choosing tenets to go with it. That doesn’t seem to be, well kosher. For the imbecility of “all lives matter” or “when’s straight person’s day,” none of those jamokes take a moment to think that days like the Trans Day of Visibility are needed because they are yet another part of the population that gets minimalized, persecuted and worse.

The folks upset about Easter and Visibility Day landing on the same day are looking for something to get upset about. How their Easter gets wrecked by something, that isn’t happening in their house, escapes me and is largely a figment of the distorted imaginations of these easily threatened people.

Whenever Love thy Neighbor is printed, it is never followed by “but only if they agree with you and live your way.” I read one post where the writer said he was insulted the occasions landed on the same day. Life needs to be a little more complicated if he is that easily thrown.

We do need to take better care of ourselves and each other. No additional clauses to tacked on. We need to take better care of each other, without disclaimer, fear, bigotry as we are all just people, But in the meantime, I can’t wait to see the posts about Easter and 420 next year, Light em up!

And in the meantime, let’s be kind and take care of each other, without any disclaimers.