Easter and the triumph over worldly, corrupt power

For reasons having more to do with modern secular culture and commerce than religious significance, Christmas is more elaborately celebrated. But for believing Christians, Easter is the centerpiece of the faith.
It marks the improbable miracle that God’s messenger in human form was killed by the agents of the powers of this world, yet rose from the dead.
In so doing, he triumphed not only over the grave but revealed the pretensions of the powerful of this world, whether that purported powe