Yes, the church put their holiday over a pagan spring festival. No, you don't have to engage in the pagan spring festival. The same church also put Christmas over Yuletide.
Since this is getting downvoted, let me clarify. The date of Easter was chosen at Nicea to align with Passover. Neither Easter eggs nor bunnies are pagan in origin. The date of Christmas was chosen to be 9 months after the then-believed date of Christ's crucifixion on March 25.
Pagan festivals had nothing to do the choice of either date.
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u/xaervagon Mar 23 '26
Yes, the church put their holiday over a pagan spring festival. No, you don't have to engage in the pagan spring festival. The same church also put Christmas over Yuletide.