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?