Why is Christmas more popular than Easter as a celebration

[Samof94]

Is there a reason why Christmas has a much stronger secular significance than Easter on the calendar?? Easter isn't a slouch or anything, but compared to Christmas, it is tiny(in secular terms, it is basically about candy, an anthropomorphic bunny, and egg hunting).

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Is there a reason why Christmas has a much stronger secular significance than Easter on the calendar?? Easter isn't a slouch or anything, but compared to Christmas, it is tiny(in secular terms, it is basically about candy, an anthropomorphic bunny, and egg hunting).

In the Catholic church, Easter is the more important feast, the highest feast to be exact, since resurrections of the body don't occur that often, whereas most human beings usually get born (unless they have been murdered by some liberals in advance).
Back to the topic, the Christmas feast is an older tradition that the Easter feast. Both Roman and many Germanic tribes celebrated their own winter solstice customs which resemble our own Christmas customs; the Christmas tree e.g. derives its origin from Germanic tribes.
The Roman were known to excessively and voluptuously celebrate Saturnalia during the beginning of winter in honor of the god Saturn, who was said to have reigned over the world during the Golden age. The Paschal Triduum, the antecessor of the Easter feast, was only established centuries later.

[vitoNova]

Presents, bitch!

[dead0man]

selfishness/the gifts

[buritobr]

Eating turkey with the family and receiving gifts is better than just receiving chocolate eggs

[LabourJersey]

Christmas is heavily secularized in a way that Easter isn't, and really can't be.

A good chunk of the mixed-religion families (i.e. Christian-Jewish mixed families) I knew growing up celebrated Christmas - they sent cards, they had a tree, etc. The idea of Christmas has become just another family holiday. I don't recall them celebrating Easter.

Easter is secularized to a degree by emphasizing the Easter Bunny, spring, etc., but it's still linked with Jesus in the popular mindset in a way that Christmas isn't any longer.

Plus, the fact that Easter moves around the calendar makes it less popular - how many people reading this thread know when is Easter this year? (It's March 31).

[Skill and Chance]

Christmas is heavily secularized in a way that Easter isn't, and really can't be.

This.  There is literally no point in celebrating a secular Easter.   

Though it's worth noting the cultural aspects of American Christmas non-Christians observe aren't generally some continuation of ancient paganism, but rather something that came together in Germanic language Europe over the past few centuries and didn't take off here until the late 1800's.  For example, the merging of St. Nicholas Day (the traditional Christian gift-giving day in early December) with Christmas and the use of Christmas trees were both championed by Martin Luther in 1500's Germany with little precedent beforehand.  As late as the mid 1800's, Christmas trees in America were just a curiosity seen in German immigrant neighborhoods.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There definitely is a secular side to Easter. It's the holiday where people eat lots of candy and children get easter eggs.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

It's a big, festive, end-of-year celebration that's universal/international in a way Thanksgiving isn't. Easter is more of a day festival where it's more directly tied into church events.

[Samof94]

There definitely is a secular side to Easter. It's the holiday where people eat lots of candy and children get easter eggs.

It even has something vaguely like a Santa Claus except he's a giant rabbit.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

There definitely is a secular side to Easter. It's the holiday where people eat lots of candy and children get easter eggs.

Easter was a fairly big holiday when I was a kid (in an atheist household). My mum would always make pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, and Easter Sunday would always involve gifts of chocolate and egg hunts with the family. I think its lesser importance now as an adult comes from that it is a more children-oriented holiday in its secular celebration.

I think the difference in the secular evolution of the two holidays comes in the time of year they're held: a festive holiday around the winter solstice was held at a time when people's stores were full after the harvest and was always extremely popular to relieve the gloom of the season - at least in northern Europe. Easter couldn't take on the same gourmand and gift-giving aspects on as large a scale as Christmas because people had less food in the spring.

[UWS]

Maybe because there is both gifts and candies in time of Christmas holidays". And it is also just less than a week before the New Year which is probably another reason why Christmas is more popular than Easter