Re: Religious Discrimination :-) (was Loyalty cards again)

In article <aAAzj.18208$XI.13889@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jette  <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>> One benefit of my Shop-Rite card is that they have semi-annual deals 
>> where if you spend $300 in a four-week period, you get a free "holiday 
>> dinner" (actually a ham, turkey, kosher turkey or kosher vegetarian 
>> lasgana).  They run one before Thanksgiving and one before
Easter/Passover.
>> 
>> Normally, I could easily spend $300 in the four weeks before Passover, 
>> so I always got a free kosher turkey.
>> 
>> This year, however, Easter falls a month before Passover, and since
they 
>> have to have the four weeks end before Easter, they don't even have the

>> Passover foods in the store during the promotion.  So my Passover 
>> purchases will not count, so no free turkey this year.
>> 
>>
>
>I'm not Christian, but I thought Easter was supposed to be tied to 
>Passover, as Christ and his disciples were celebrating it just before 
>his arrest?

Yes.  The first Easter came on the first day of the week after
Passover.  However, in the centuries since then the algorithms
various branches have chosen to calculate the date of Easter
(during the Middle Ages, that was the main function of the study
of Arithmetic) have diverged, so that it's only occasionally that
they coincide the way they should.  It's a pity.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]