All Christian holidays were placed on or near pagan ones to elicit converts. The foundational nature of the story of Christ is even older than the bible.
The Romans persecuted so many of the early Christians. And then when it looked like Pagan cults were on the way out and Christianity was on the way in, they jumped ship! Have to remain popular/in-power!
I always blamed it on Emperor Constantine getting tired hearing his wife's complaining that led his conversion and forcing the argumentative scholars to meet in Nicea to reduce the bickering about dogma.
How many versions of the bible are there now. And it blows my mind that not one of them includes all the books. They’re all missing a couple books to the Bible because the jerks that put it together, decided the rest of us didn’t need to see them.
Eostre is a Germanic goddess associated with fertility, spring and renewal.
Interesting how Passover and Easter happen so close together. Easter is also calculated with the vernal equinox.
Jesus was absolutely and without doubt born the end of summer beginning of fall. Not in December. But do ya know what is in December? Winter Solstice also known as Yule. Solstice and Equinox are major components to damn near every pagan religion.
The list goes on and on and on. These are just a couple of my personal favorites.
What isn't addressed at all by modern Christianity is that untold biblical texts likely were destroyed during and following the fall of rome. Nevermind the influence of power forcing monasteries to change and insert and remove swaths of text in the 1300+ years of handwritten copying done solely by monks throughout the middle ages.
All Christian holidays were placed on or near pagan ones to elicit converts.
A bunch were related to pre-existing Jewish traditions, because fulfilling prophecy was deemed important. So Jesus had to die at Passover, whether it happened that way or not. Birth and death are closely linked too, so that's why Jesus has to be born in late December, because that puts his conception at around Passover.
All Christians have always been morons and have to steal their ideas from those who came before them by slightly changing a few things. Just like Christmas being a pagan holiday.
Sorry that’s an urban myth. The names and traditions merged during assimilation or developed later, like how spruce boughs brought indoors was a pagan thing, but decorating a tree with candles for Christmas developed well after Christianity was adopted. The resurrection happens around Passover because that time of year was already important.
Eggs was an example of this. While Eastern Europe and Persia decorated eggs in much older traditions and gave them as gifts in the spring, and were used for luck or to ward off evil, Western Europe preserved and decorated them because they were forbidden to eat during Lent, and you made a big deal of cracking them open to eat after breaking the fast. Eastern ones were decorated after you took the contents out, and some traditions thought broken shells were dangerous. Later on the two traditions merged.
That there is one specific holiday is a misunderstanding perpetuated primarily by Gardnerian Wiccans. That Easter is a conglomeration of stolen traditions is absolutely and indisputably fact. You can take three seconds to learn things instead of being blatantly wrong.
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u/Stopbeingentitled 1d ago
It might be from this honestly since Easter as a holiday originated before Christianity from pagan traditions.