Chocolate Egg Laying Bunnies or the Day the World was Saved?

As Britain, and much of the Western world, becomes more and more secular, one religious event still shapes the calendar that people live by: the Easter weekend.  Though most will know that it is something to do with the death of Jesus Christ, today the holiday stands for different things for different people: family, food, the Easter Bunny, welcome time off work, chocolate eggs and more.


Still, though people will being saying "Happy Easter" over this weekend, it seems that few really take in why Easter is happy, especially if it is based around the death of Jesus.

What's So Good About Good Friday?

The Friday of the Easter weekend is always called Good Friday.  Maybe it's the bank holiday day off that we think is good about that day or the sneaky Easter egg you might eat up a few days early (I'm guilty of that already) that makes this day 'good' but the real reason behind it is found in the Easter story that the whole weekend is named after.

However, surely the leader of a religion being nailed to a piece of wood and innocently murdered isn't a good thing?  The anniversaries of most famous peoples' deaths are mourned, marked by a minute's silence and the laying of flowers.  Why is Good Friday labelled good?