• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you’re ignorant, it’s trivial to research this issue. Google “pagan origins of easter” and find a source you like. There will be shit tons of options.

    If you’re being willfully ignorant, you deserve nothing but ridicule.

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      1 day ago

      I have researched this issue. “The pagan origins of Easter” is a common myth (often there are several variants of this myth) which has been debunked.

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          No, he’s correct. Jesus directly referenced what we know as Easter traditions in the Bible:

          “While they were eating, Jesus took a box of Peeps, and when he had given thanks, he broke them apart and gave them to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; they’re honestly not that bad.”

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          1 day ago

          No, it’s you lot with the trendy new-atheist dogma of “Christianity actually just copied xyz” which has been thoroughly debunked by scholars. It’s just a myth that secular society repeats without questioning at this point. I literally posted a link to an article debunking it. That’s not wilful ignorance. I used to believe that these holidays were pagan too, until I actually researched it.