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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another appropriated holiday.  Samhain is a very sacred holiday in my faith.  It’s the day the veil is at its thinnest.  We communicate with and honor our deceased ancestors. Costumes were meant to help the living blend in with the dead. We carve Jack-o-lanterns to scare away any unwanted guests.  It is our most important festival.  I love that we celebrate Halloween in the US.  But I hate how evangelical Christians pretend it isn’t a pagan/Wiccan holiday.  Same with Yule (Christmas). Same with Ostara (Easter).  All the so-called “Christian” holidays were appropriated.

If you attend a church that celebrates Samhain (Halloween), your church is 10O% hypocritical.  It is a pagan holiday. [/quote]

Easter was originally a Roman fertility rite that included sacrifices too. [/quote]

Nope. Easter started during Passover. The Last Supper was a Passover meal and the supper and Jesus’ death occurred when Jerusalem was clogged with people celebrating Passover. This is Christianity 101.[/quote]

Oh, really?  What is the origin of the word "Easter"?  And the rabbits and eggs as symbols?

It's more complicated than your curt "nope" implies.  Like many religious holidays (such as Christmas), it's origins are tied to seasonal changes, solstices and equinoxes.[/quote]

Easter was known as [i]Pascha[/i] (Passover) in Latin and Greek, and Paques in French, centuries before people started speaking what we know as English in the British isles. Honestly the fact that we’re speaking English now is pretty irrelevant to the holiday’s establishment.

There’s pretty good consensus (except among pagans and atheists ;)) that the English word Easter came to us first from the Latin designation of Easter week as [i]in albis [/i](plural of [i]alba[/i] or dawn) which was translated into old high German as [i]Eostarum[/i] (also “dawn”). [/quote]

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