Since languages pre-date Christianity, one would have a whole lot of things to rename, but I don’t disagree that at least the caledar proper names could have been renamed in the Middle Ages, and maybe one day they will be.
Imagine the surprise of an American Catholic accustomed to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday and worship Odin, only to find out, on his visit to France, that it is Mercury that is worshipped that day.
“Imagine the surprise of an American Catholic accustomed to go to Mass on Ash Wednesday and worship Odin, only to find out, on his visit to France, that it is Mercury that is worshipped that day.”
wodin actually was Mercury. It’s just it was also personified. Same kind of thing goes for thor & fria. The planets also mean those days in far-off places like Japan.
BTW, this was never a “catholic thing”. I know some people are hypersenstitive to that, and I have admonished those who cause trouble on BOTH sides, in fact probably more protestants, because if you admonish catholics for posting something they think it’s because you’re being anti-catholic... In fact I’ve been so fair, some catholic guy has assumed I was catholic and added me to his catholic ping list. But I’m not going to let that hypersensitivity stop me from having an opinion.