Archbishop of Canterbury calls for set date for Easter

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-calls-church-leaders-Easter-fixed-date.html

"Easter could fall at the same time every year under reforms being considered by church leaders.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, announced that the Church of England would join the talks already under way between Pope Francis and Coptic Church leaders to try to set a unified date.

"He said he would love to see an agreed, simplified timing for Christians’ most important festival, the date of which can shift each year by as much as 35 days."

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I think this whole thing is hilarious, because the date for Easter is determined astrologically, and the Church is against the idea of astrology!

They didn't mention that when the appropriate Sunday has a lunar eclipse, Easter is postponed - another very astrological aspect of Easter.
 
Every date of everything is astronomical....some by our star, some by other stats, some by our moon...but all time scales come from our relationship with other floating bodies eh?
 
From Catholic Answers.com
How is the date for Easter determined?
How is the date for Easter determined? Last year it was very early.
Answer
Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. If the first full moon occurs on the equinox, Easter is the following Sunday. Thus, Easter can fall anywhere between March 22 and April 25.

My question is why did they come up with such a complicated method of determining the day in the first place?
 
According to Tradition, the Resurrection occurred after the Jewish Passover, which was celebrated on the first full moon following the vernal equinox.
 
Devils' Advocate said:
why did they come up with such a complicated method of determining the day in the first place?
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Because it is a significant day in the astrological calendar. Otherwise it makes no sense at all. And remember it gets postponed another whole month when that first moon is eclipsed (although I have heard that they have recently stopped following the eclipse-causes-postponement rule).
 
Nick the Pilot said:
Because it is a significant day in the astrological calendar. Otherwise it makes no sense at all.
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Passover is a Spring Festival, and in ancient times the significant signs were agricultural, because the first day of Nisan would not start until the barley was ripe, that being an indicator of the onset of spring. If the barley was not ripe, or other indicators of spring were not yet imminent, an intercalary month (Adar II) was added. Only since the 4th century has the date been fixed mathematically on the first moon after the vernal equinox.
 
Does it really matter? Surely in the 21st century, the date when a mythical magician died/ reappeared is a waste of time. And before we start any discussion please give any contra arguments in a logical form that doesn`t use the word faith.
 
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