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Easter is no longer about Jesus, and his real teaching and guidance for human beings isn't transmitted in this religious holiday. Therefore it's not as benefici

Easter is no longer about Jesus, and his real teaching and guidance for human beings isn't transmitted in this religious holiday. Therefore it's not as beneficial to the world to celebrate easter as it is to celebrate Chavez' specific contributions. When the actual teaching of Christ is revived then it would be more beneficial to humanity to celebrate than Chavez. So I can see why Google made this choice, considering their brand.

claudius 14y ago
Because, you know, stoning gays, wives who slept with not-their-husband, people working on Saturdays, people who had sex before marriage and disobedient children will be greatly beneficial to humanity.
Shorel 14y ago
And at the beginning it had nothing to do with the Christian religion, so in a sense, it was never about 'Jesus'. Easter is a fertility spring celebration retconned by the Romans into something else. That's why we have eggs and bunnies, symbols of fertility.
- blueprint 14y ago
  Jesus also has nothing to do with the Christian religion. Of course I'll get downvoted for saying this as if it's insensitive. The fact is that to claim that Christianity has the real teaching of Christ is equivalent in meaning to killing Jesus twice. Being attached to what Christianity teaches people to do is not a way to recover the teaching that Jesus tried to leave humans, but the miserable reality today is that the majority of people blindly believe the validity of religions. They see things in the exact opposite way.
  - hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
    > Jesus also has nothing to do with the Christian religion. I don't think it's correct to say that. Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus - although it also incorporates Abrahamism -, so it does have a lot to do with him. That said, Christianity was born long after Jesus, when the Roman empire adopted it. So Jesus' philosophy and the Christian religion are not exactly the same thing.
    - blueprint 14y ago
      "Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus" It may be possible for modern Christians to claim this while sounding reasonable (because it seems this way, listening to the words), but the statement falls apart when we try to verify. Specifically, I've met and had in depth discussions with many Christians (including priests and lay people) from different schools. None of them could tell me what the teaching of Jesus is. Some were able to tell me words that they had learned, like "love" or "truth" or "law", but upon my questions made through those terms (e.g. What is love?), no one among them could answer with substance. Other religions have the same condition. Buddhist monks, for example, do not know Buddha's teaching. But they use the name of Buddha to propagate their own words. Their one aim in doing so is to deceive people. I don't say this without extensive proof and verification. If we make a gist of what Gautama Buddha taught for 45 years, we come up with two things: the theory of transmigration, and the law of cause and effect. He taught this to people in order to explain what exists, and how it exists. But there are no Buddhists today who know, nor want to know, this extremely valuable teaching of Buddha. Instead, they claim that Buddha taught the four noble truths, precepts, and that meditation is a way to enlightenment. They claim that Buddha taught that the way to nirvana is to never be reborn again and that Buddha taught like that. That's absolutely wrong. Buddha taught people to save themselves through what exists in the truth. The purpose of his continuous effort was to make the quality of people's lives go up. He regarded life very preciously. That's why he taught people to confirm everything before accepting it. How could a Buddha teach people to kill themselves forever? Teaching always stays in the questions. Without substantial matters (a problem that people can confirm) then there is no way in the teaching from the problem to the answer. The religious scriptures only have answers, but no questions, that's why they have no ways for living people. So it's not helpful at all to people. On the contrary, if we confirm what the result is in reality, religious practice only makes people serve and become a sacrifice for the dead. I can't find any evidence that Jesus Christ recommended that people start or propagate religions. I agree that Jesus was a great philosopher and a saint. He sacrificed his own life in order to awaken humanity -- but it's because he told people the truth about religions that he was killed by the religious people in those times. That's how I know that education/propagation of Abrahamic texts is quite antithetical to the life activities of Jesus himself, and their inclusion in a religion precludes the coexistence of the true teaching of a saint such as Jesus.

claudius 14y ago

Because, you know, stoning gays, wives who slept with not-their-husband, people working on Saturdays, people who had sex before marriage and disobedient children will be greatly beneficial to humanity.

Shorel 14y ago

And at the beginning it had nothing to do with the Christian religion, so in a sense, it was never about 'Jesus'. Easter is a fertility spring celebration retconned by the Romans into something else. That's why we have eggs and bunnies, symbols of fertility.

blueprint 14y ago
Jesus also has nothing to do with the Christian religion. Of course I'll get downvoted for saying this as if it's insensitive. The fact is that to claim that Christianity has the real teaching of Christ is equivalent in meaning to killing Jesus twice. Being attached to what Christianity teaches people to do is not a way to recover the teaching that Jesus tried to leave humans, but the miserable reality today is that the majority of people blindly believe the validity of religions. They see things in the exact opposite way.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
  > Jesus also has nothing to do with the Christian religion. I don't think it's correct to say that. Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus - although it also incorporates Abrahamism -, so it does have a lot to do with him. That said, Christianity was born long after Jesus, when the Roman empire adopted it. So Jesus' philosophy and the Christian religion are not exactly the same thing.
  - blueprint 14y ago
    "Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus" It may be possible for modern Christians to claim this while sounding reasonable (because it seems this way, listening to the words), but the statement falls apart when we try to verify. Specifically, I've met and had in depth discussions with many Christians (including priests and lay people) from different schools. None of them could tell me what the teaching of Jesus is. Some were able to tell me words that they had learned, like "love" or "truth" or "law", but upon my questions made through those terms (e.g. What is love?), no one among them could answer with substance. Other religions have the same condition. Buddhist monks, for example, do not know Buddha's teaching. But they use the name of Buddha to propagate their own words. Their one aim in doing so is to deceive people. I don't say this without extensive proof and verification. If we make a gist of what Gautama Buddha taught for 45 years, we come up with two things: the theory of transmigration, and the law of cause and effect. He taught this to people in order to explain what exists, and how it exists. But there are no Buddhists today who know, nor want to know, this extremely valuable teaching of Buddha. Instead, they claim that Buddha taught the four noble truths, precepts, and that meditation is a way to enlightenment. They claim that Buddha taught that the way to nirvana is to never be reborn again and that Buddha taught like that. That's absolutely wrong. Buddha taught people to save themselves through what exists in the truth. The purpose of his continuous effort was to make the quality of people's lives go up. He regarded life very preciously. That's why he taught people to confirm everything before accepting it. How could a Buddha teach people to kill themselves forever? Teaching always stays in the questions. Without substantial matters (a problem that people can confirm) then there is no way in the teaching from the problem to the answer. The religious scriptures only have answers, but no questions, that's why they have no ways for living people. So it's not helpful at all to people. On the contrary, if we confirm what the result is in reality, religious practice only makes people serve and become a sacrifice for the dead. I can't find any evidence that Jesus Christ recommended that people start or propagate religions. I agree that Jesus was a great philosopher and a saint. He sacrificed his own life in order to awaken humanity -- but it's because he told people the truth about religions that he was killed by the religious people in those times. That's how I know that education/propagation of Abrahamic texts is quite antithetical to the life activities of Jesus himself, and their inclusion in a religion precludes the coexistence of the true teaching of a saint such as Jesus.