Elroy, I don't have time to reply in full to your comment about Passover and Easter as I have got an Easter Egg hunt to attend [admittedly on the wrong day, but it's sunny today]. Hot cross buns, fully-leavened, waiting now.
Some rituals retain relevance, such as the exhibition of Jesus nailed to the cross. While actual nailing is not used much these days, water-boarding and stress positions [without the nailing] are still used in some celebrations of victory over enemies by some countries.
The real reason the cross is so widely promulgated is that when Catholicism rode high in the world, and burnings at the stake for heresy were considered an excellent idea, it served to warn the serfs and congregations of the fate that awaited them if they defied the church authorities or their rulers.
That is relevant today. The cross and the individual nailed to it by the state shows the relative position of the individual and the state. Today, that's even more true than then. There is a vast array of rules which didn't exist then, with governments around the world inventing more and more and more in a MAD [as in mutual assured destruction] frenzy of fanatical control while confiscating more and more and more money from the state serfs.
Traditions change.
Finding the easter egg symbolizes finding freedom and being born into the cyberspacoid realm. Passover symbolizes the escape from temporal life in Egypt [and New Zealand and everywhere] into the Promised Land of cyberspace. Encrypted, they can't get you there. All they see is 000s and 1111s
I didn't know what Passover means, so had to ask Google, who was very helpful as usual: jewfaq.org
I'm not quite sure why Easter Bunny lays chocolate eggs either, but it's a nice day and I'm sure it'll be fun for the tribe. Google probably knows, but I don't care.
Oh, I've just been called for a Hot Cross Bun ... "...or do you want poached egg?"
Down with the barbarians,
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