Easter vs. Christmas

There has been a long philosophical question about whether Easter or Christmas is more important. This is pretty simple to a Catholic like me. Definitely Easter. However, there are arguments on both sides, and in this post I'll discuss them and refute those who are wrong.
The first argument for why Christmas is more important is that Christmas precludes because Christ had to be born. However, there are two responses to this. First, this commits the fallacy of origin: stating that since one thing comes from another we must value the first one as the second is valuable. Second, Christmas has no meaning without Easter. Christmas would just be an average birthday party except for the fact Christ is the Son of God. Further, Christ was Incarnated for the purpose of Easter, and the Paschal Mystery. THis means even with the fallacious preclusion argument, Easter comes first.
The question that arises is why people celebrate Christmas so much when Easter us truly more important  IT's a simple answer. People celebrate Christmas to make a religious holiday more secular. The only reason Catholic and other denominational schools celebrate with two weeks off is because it's around the middle of the year. IT doesn't have to do wit the
 holiday itself, but with the time the holiday falls in the year. I once asked an Atheist if she celebrated Christmas and she said "yea Christ was a great guy and we celebrate that." I heard that and I had a mini heart attack. Christ isn't just some person like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. Christ is much more. Christ is God Incarnate on Earth. Christmas is just secularized to become more acceptable to those outside the Church so they can celebrate it as well. It is by no means more importnat than Easter.

God and Intuition

With every idea comes some kind of blatant assertion. You can warrant a claim with many different reasons, but eventually you reach a conclusion that is not rational. It is merely a warrantless assertion. While philosophers like Thomas Nagel have used this as a way to exploit a theory of subjectivity, the human mind seems to operate on a different level. Even with these odd, supposedly universal, assertions, there is still a gut feeling that makes people agree or disagree with certain beliefs. This implies a human intuition.

While we know this human intuition exists, it makes no sense to confine it to evolution. While evolution has enhanced our ability to think philosophically, it still hasn't managed to change our intuition. Things liek killing are intuitively bad. There is still an intuitive appeal to progress. While this theory could be butchered and mislabeled as the whims of instinct, they operate on a much higher level. Everyone has this gut feeling, but there is no knowledge of where it comes from. However, by tracing historical roots, one comes to the realization that most of these ideas of ethics stem from a religious sense of God. That means God is the true philosopher, and he dictates the human intuition, which describes what is moral and immoral when our beliefs come down to the nitty gritty assertions without rational warrant. This is more than a proof of God, however. This is also a reason why we ought to follow God. God's guidance allows us to follow what we think to be secularly true. B following God's will and allowing him to guide our life, we improve our sense of ethics and thus become better human beings.

God and Interpersonal Relationships

As Catholics, it is our obligation to become closer to God. While it seems easy, and good, in a vacuum, people aren't sure how it actually helps us in our day to day life. One way it helps us, however, is through our relationships with others. .
Our relationships with others are hard to describe. When pressed, I think I could possibly get an idea of how someone is and what I think of them, but it isn't exactly easy. This is because interpersonal relationships are more than just rational. Relationships are built upon things like trust, things like love, that we cannot truly rationalize. you can't rationalize loving someone because the structure of our nature makes it a meta-rational idea. God must therefore be the source of our emotive relationships. Why? If the human mind cannot rationalize something that we know exists, there must be something that explains it that exceeds rational capacity. This is God. God is the source of our meta-rational thoughts and feelings. This means incorporating God into a relationship is merely bringing t light the already important bond formed by him. Also, bringing God into a relationship strengthens it insofar as it puts a metaphysical, meta-rational arbiter between them. When two people find a love of God, happiness, through their relationships with each other, the relationship becomes that much stronger.