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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this the thread where we demand evidence?

OK, great!  Been waiting for this one.

Where is the evidence for god then?  Since evidence is suddenly so important.

I'll wait.[/quote]

You’re asking for two types of evidence: 1. Was there a religion/faith based around a given god or goddess, and 2. Are the various gods/goddesses in question “real.”

There’s no evidence there was ever a pagan faith based around a goddess called Eostra with rituals and other totems like eggs and bunnies. You just have a controversial mention by Bede, who lived a century later and may have invented it, plus some speculation from a German guy in the 1800s. Also credible competing theories like a Germanic origin for the word Easter. Nothing like the extensive scripture and ritual in so many other religions, including Greco-Roman mythology for which there’s lots of evidence. Or Baal, or the various Sumerian gods—we have statues and contemporaneous writings about them, so they really were religions. Not so for Eostra.

Whether God or Eostra (if this was an actual faith, and frankly there’s no evidence for that, see previous para) are “real” is obviously a separate question that is best answered with faith.

OK great. [/quote]

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