21st Century: Query 162 (Annie Besant)
“‘Easter’
is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an
impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event,
but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival.
These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a
solar myth.”
~ Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, women’s
rights activist, writer, orator, educationist,
and philanthropist.
Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both
Irish and Indian self-rule.
How is Besant’s
assertion ironic?