The sign on the window of a bank on the lower east side of Manhattan was much like one you might see on any Australian bank at this time of year.
It’s just a piece of paper in a store window – but it tells you everything about the huge difference between Easter in Australia and the US.
So it seems odd that in the US – a nation that seems more focused on religion than Australia, and whose pledge of allegiance contains the words “one nation, under God,” – would casually dismiss Good Friday, the day when God’s actual son died on the cross. But the oversized chocolate egg, that you take great delight in smashing to smithereens and then losing a slither of it under the sofa, are nowhere to be seen.Finding a hot cross bun can be like searching for the holy grail of baked goods.
A cat keep guard of the hot cross buns at Myers of Keswick, in New York’s Greenwich Village. Picture: Benedict Brook/news.com.auAmerica’s seeming indifference to Easter is likely rooted in both tradition and religion – or the lack of both. The monarch, King Charles, heads the Church of England, which is the country’s “established church” and plays many important ceremonial roles. Senior bishops and Britain’s two Archbishops also sit in the House of Lords and vote on laws.
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