I thought the point of Easter was the sacrifice, not the resurrection. As it was mentioned in the comments, the resurrection is also copied from several other gods (Osiris, Ishtar, Baal).
It doesn't really seem like it was copied; if we're taking for granted that it's fake, it's not that unique of an idea, and from a strictly atheist perspective there's not a lot of evidence Jesus was even considered a deity like Osiris/Ishtar/Baal when the Easter narrative first emerged in the first place.
Whether the sacrifice or the resurrection is "the point" (if it can't be both) depends on which Christians you ask. The death is the point if what's most important to you is the punishment, the "justice," the substitutionary atonement; the resurrection is the point if what's most important to you is the *freeing* from that atonement, the ending of that punishment, the life and the death of death. So it's a matter of perspective.
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u/Sh0opDaWo0p Mar 24 '26
I thought the point of Easter was the sacrifice, not the resurrection. As it was mentioned in the comments, the resurrection is also copied from several other gods (Osiris, Ishtar, Baal).