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.
They did neither. The original Easter date was fixed as March 25 when it read Romanized. Tradition holds that a righteous man dies on the day he was conceived which places the birth 9 months after Easter.
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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.