Easter joke
A priest didn't think anyone knew the true meaning of Easter anymore so after mass one morning he called over one of his parishioners. "My son do you possibly know the true meaning of Easter?"
"Well father if I'm not mistaken it has something to do with rabbits."
"Go away" says the priest. And he calls over another parishioner.
"My son is there any chance you know the true meaning of Easter?"
"Well father if I'm not mistaken it has something to do with eggs."
The priest, completely frustrated, is going to try one more time. Calls over another parishioner. "My son is there any chance that YOU know the true meaning of Easter?"
"Well father if I'm not mistaken they crucified Christ, took him off the cross, put him in a cave"... the priest interrupting, calls back the other two prisoners and said "now this man is going to tell you the true meaning of Easter, go ahead."
"Well they crucified Christ, took him off the cross, put him in a cave, moved a big rock in front of the cave, in the morning christ wakens, pushes the rock from in front of the cave, christ comes out, and if he sees his shadow there's six more weeks of winter.
As I understand it, Easter is actually a re-working of a pagan ritual, a rite of spring celebrating rebirth and renewal. Some scholars think the word "Easter" comes from the name for a pagan fertility goddess who was known as Estarte.
That’s the story I heard during several months as a pagan and going to religious services “sky clad” or naked.
When a warlock, a male witch, showed up and behaved like an alpha male, I returned to agnosticism.