Christians angry at lack of Google Doodle to celebrate the Easter holiday

Twitter posts attacked search engine, accusing them of 'hating Christians'

Google defended itself, saying it does not do any religious imagery in Doodles

Conservative Christians and alt-right commentators are venting their anger over Google not creating one of their famous Doodles to celebrate the Easter Holiday.

Several prominent conservative Twitter users, including Hollywood actor James Woods, attacked the search engine for being 'anti-Christian'.

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Google has defended itself, stating it does not have any Doodles for religious-only holidays, and has not had an Easter Doodle since 2000.

Outrage: A number of people took to Twitter to attack the search engine for being 'anti-Christian' over the lack of an Easter Doodle

Woods re-tweeted a post by the editor of far-right news website Infowars, which asked why 'Google has a doodle for every obscure 'woke' person/event imaginable, but nothing for Easter?'.

The Casino actor, added his own reply, claiming that 'They loathe Christians. Pure and simple'.

Alt-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec tweeted to his 300,000 followers: 'Happy Easter to everyone except Google today'.

Google often alters the company's logo on its start page celebrate events, honour prominent people or mark a holiday, known as a Google Doodle.

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Angry: One of the many people to vent their anger on Twitter was actor James Woods

Others vented their upset that many other, less popular, holidays were celebrated with a Doodle, but not Easter which is celebrated in several religions and secular communities

Alt-right unite: Fervent Trump-supporter Jack Posobiec also made an un-subtle dig

The company defended itself, saying its 'Doodle guidelines' state that there are no Doodles for religious holidays.

However, Google acknowledged that it had created Doodles for holidays which are celebrated by some religions, claiming that these - such as Tu B'Av, a Jewish 'holiday of love' and 'the December holiday period' - had grown out of being a religious holiday.

'We don't have Doodles for religious holidays, in line with our current Doodle guidelines,' a statement seen by Fox News said.

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'Doodles may appear for some non-religious celebrations that have grown out of religious holidays, such as Valentine's Day, Holi's Festival of Colors, Tu B'Av and the December holiday period, but we don't include religious imagery or symbolism as part of these.'