I live in Boise, Idaho. The winter here has been far too long for me this year. Normally, we start to see an increase in temperatures and a decrease in winter weather by the middle February. Once March rolls around, spring is in the air. As of today, though, we still have plenty of snow on the mountains around us and people are still skiing and boarding every day.
It used to be that spring not only meant great weather to me, but it also was about big Easter celebrations. The extra time we've had waiting for spring gave me time to think about what Easter means to me at this point in my life, as an atheist.
There are parts of Easter that I still enjoy; like the robins eggs malt balls that can be found in every candy aisle in the nation for a few short weeks every year, and of course chocolate bunnies. Is there more than that though? What’s should the non believer make of Easter? Are there lessons, good or bad we can take from it?
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