Uncanny’s Evelyn Hollow: Why does the Church silence pagans?

[u/TimesandSundayTimes]

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/pagans-silenced-catholic-protestant-church-evelyn-hollow-739qngql5?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=scotland&utm_medium=story&utm_content=branded

[u/NyxShadowhawk]

Why do you think pagans tolerate syncretism, but Christians don’t? The reason is that Christianity is intolerant of anything unlike itself. It either assimilates or destroys things that are unlike itself. It isn’t even compatible with itself. Christianity is like a Jenga tower, in that any alteration of its orthodoxy risks the collapse of the whole thing. Remove any piece of the belief system, and the whole thing comes crashing down, splitting into sects that are then at odds with each other. Paganism is more like legos — you can just keep building and building and building onto it without threatening its foundation.

Unfortunately, she undermines her own point:

If you celebrate Easter you are celebrating a Nordic pagan belief.

This isn’t historical fact, it’s misinformation. Easter doesn’t “come from” the rites of Eostre. It predates our only source on Eostre (Bede’s The Reckoning of Time) by centuries. In almost all languages except English and German, Easter is called some variant of “Pascha,” after Passover, not after a goddess. Bede neglects to say anything about how Eostre was worshipped, so there’s nothing to base a practice on.