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To: Iscool
Sorry but Easter is a Pagan holiday...Always has been...

Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is NOT pagan.

6,031 posted on 01/23/2010 5:08:54 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski
Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is NOT pagan.

The usual meme about that assumes that "Easter" is the actual name of the holiday and doesn't consider that, in most languages, the name of the holiday is derived from "pascha" -- i.e., pascal, i.e., passover. One also has to assume that the neo-pagan traditions surrounding it (eggs, rabbits, etc.) are of Catholic origin, vice Anglo-Saxon origin.

I know, as for myself, I've tried to correct that before, but after a while, one has to ask, "Why bother?"

6,086 posted on 01/23/2010 8:46:30 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: Petronski
Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is NOT pagan.

I didn't say it was...I said Easter is a Pagan Holiday...

6,138 posted on 01/23/2010 11:15:42 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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