We'll get the easy news out of the way first: Cesar Chavez is not Hugo Chavez.

The former: Latino American civil rights activist, historic labor leader, and founder of the United Farm Workers union. The latter: Venezuelan dictator (arguably), recently deceased.

Second, Google didn't ignore today's Easter celebration because it has some kind of anti-religious slant. To quote a Google spokesperson:

"We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it's difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site. Sometimes for a given date we feature an historical event or influential figure that we haven't in the past."

If you haven't quite pieced the two together yet, here's the gist: Today's Google Doodle honors Cesar Chavez. Regardless of what the late activist did during his life  and the fact that today is technically Cesar Chavez Day in the United States  a number of people are taking to the airwaves to criticize Google for honoring Chavez instead of making some kind of reference to today's Easter Sunday celebrations.

Worse, some are confusing one Chavez with the other.

"Wow. Congrats Google, youve managed to alienate all Christians in America today: instead of celebrating Christ, they celebrate Cesar Chavez," tweeted @jksolver, one of the many denouncing Google's doodle on the social network today.

The list of those taking to Twitter to complain about Google also includes some Twitter heavyweights and media celebrities.

"I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool's Day prank...are they just going to leave that up there all day," questioned Fox News' Dana Perino.

To Google's credit, the company did run an official Easter-themed doodle back in 2000  using two decorated eggs to replace the letter "o" in the company's logo.

While some have commented that Google's decision is a big reason why they'll be turning to competing search engine Bing for their future queries, it's not as if Microsoft's search is any more Easter-focused. The colorful background of decorated Easter eggs presents a lovely picture while users search, but it's pretty free of any and all religious overtones.

For others, Google's decision is hardly controversial given that Chavez himself was a devout Catholic and often tied a religious element into his larger work.

"For Chavez, social reform was never merely external. Without peace of spirit and purity of heart, there was little point in pursuing justice. Collective bargaining, just wages, shorter workdays: for Chavez none of these made sense outside the fact of his risen Lord," writes First Things' Matthew Schmitz.

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