You're listening to American Prestige.

To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at AmericanPrestigepod.com.

Find the link in our show notes.

So, I mean, Easter is the reason for Christianity, basically.

You know, there is so much now pomp and circumstance specifically around Christmas

that you can be forgiven for not

necessarily considering that fact. But fundamentally, you can't have Christianity without Easter

because it is the celebration of when your boy and mine, not Danny's, Jaycee, Jesus Christ himself, rose from the dead, right? And so as a result,

this is kind of the day that makes you a Christian. And, you know, you could, in theory,

you know, like Muslims consider that Jesus was a prophet and be like, yeah, oh, Christmas, that's cool,

because we can all agree he was born, right?

But not everyone can agree that he rose from the dead after being executed.

So it really is the thing that Christians should be concerned with,

and indeed are concerned with, especially,

as you were mentioning Derek,

in the earlier Christian period and certainly in the Middle Ages.

To the point that, you know, a great deal of time is spent if you are an early medieval monk,

just calculating when Easter is going to be,

because it is a movable feast as the very, very pleasant statement is.

So we have all of these very complex calculations that are done

that will just tell you, oh, Easter will be on this day this year.

Easter will be on that day that year. And so that that's something that's always kind of like first and foremost in Christian's minds. And these calculations surviving to us in the number

...