Easter and Commercialism

    Easter is increasingly becoming a consumer holiday. Although it hasn't risen to epic secular proportions like Christmas has, the market place is flooded this time of year with images of eggs, pastels, dresses and bonnets, and candy. What does the Easter bunny have to do with the Bible? While many who celebrate this holiday do proclaim to be religious, many observe the holiday because of tradition or family obligation. Easter has become a rite of spring. In pop culture, the holiday is something you do and things you buy rather than something you believe in. I will be happy when the calendar turns past all of this consumerism and signals the shopping season of summer. That's a shopping season in which a customer does not need to pretend to adhere to a certain religion to take part in.