(April 4, 2024 at 9:29 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This is a popular Internet myth. It's false. The Christian holiday of Easter has nothing to do with Eostre.
So Neil Gaiman fell for an internet myth.
Not just him, but for instance, some 15 years ago I watched a conversation on TV with a Catholic priest where a reporter asked him where did the rabbit and the eggs come from, and he said that they were pagan customs.
And also to claim that Christians invented customs of celebrating a resurrecting god would be ridiculous, as they existed way before Christianity - like, for example, the cult of Adonis.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
