Easter is the holiest day of the Christian calendar, because it celebrates the Resurrection (not mere physical resuscitation) of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus is truly “the man who lives,” at once fully human and fully divine, whose abiding presence portends a Kingdom of mercy and judgment that is finally “not of this world.”
Until not so long ago, America was a democratic republic that saw itself as a Christian or “Judeo-Christian” nation, and it would be unthinkable for politicians of any party to insult Christians on the holiest of feast days. But that America is increasingly on life support as the religious “nones” (those with no religious affiliation or identification) proliferate, particularly among the young, and as secularists grow both more ignorant and hostile to all the old religions and to religiosity as such.
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