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Topic subjectIn Christian doctrine Resurrection Sunday and Easter Sunday are the same
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12772833, In Christian doctrine Resurrection Sunday and Easter Sunday are the same
Posted by Case_One, Mon Apr-06-15 11:24 AM
>do you not believe in Easter, but feel the need to celebrate
>Christ's resurrection? do you believe calling it something
>different makes it not Easter? very curious about this since
>i often hear a lot of (mostly black) church going folks say it
>as Resurrection Sunday more recently.

It's just a more direct way of communicating the fact of the High Holy Celebration Day. In my opinion saying Resurrection Sunday focuses the people of today on Jesus, instead of all of the commercialism that comes with Easter.

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"And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful." ~ 2 Tim 2:4