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Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

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Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?
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RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?
April 15, 2013 at 9:24 am
I hope so. Excuse me for using a possessive term for the group I was born into, regardless of whether I left it.

If Passover began as a spring festival, it bears fuck all resemblance to anything having to do with celebrating the spring, at this point. The Seder does not make any passing mention of such, and the entire dinner and ceremony are wrapped up on the Exodus story. Unless my family missed it, there are no extraneous things like egg hunts and chocolate in which to make a nod at pagan ceremonies. Again, I asked the historian on this forum whom I trust to correct me if he knew something different.
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Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

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Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by paulpablo - April 11, 2013 at 11:44 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by paulpablo - April 11, 2013 at 11:58 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by pocaracas - April 11, 2013 at 12:00 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by festive1 - April 11, 2013 at 12:47 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Shell B - April 11, 2013 at 1:38 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Nine - April 11, 2013 at 1:38 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Shell B - April 11, 2013 at 1:42 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by ebg - April 11, 2013 at 8:40 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by catfish - April 11, 2013 at 8:46 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by ebg - April 11, 2013 at 9:27 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Darkstar - April 11, 2013 at 9:38 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by ebg - April 11, 2013 at 10:15 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by ebg - April 12, 2013 at 12:39 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 2:19 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by EGross - April 14, 2013 at 2:45 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 2:25 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 2:28 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 2:37 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by paulpablo - April 12, 2013 at 3:03 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Undeceived - April 12, 2013 at 5:16 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 14, 2013 at 1:33 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 14, 2013 at 1:44 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 14, 2013 at 2:57 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 15, 2013 at 2:18 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Cato - April 17, 2013 at 4:32 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by pocaracas - April 15, 2013 at 5:06 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by thesummerqueen - April 15, 2013 at 9:24 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 15, 2013 at 11:20 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by pocaracas - April 17, 2013 at 5:27 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 19, 2013 at 2:34 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 19, 2013 at 8:27 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by catfish - April 19, 2013 at 5:24 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 19, 2013 at 1:50 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 22, 2013 at 2:20 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 23, 2013 at 4:31 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 23, 2013 at 5:17 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 19, 2013 at 3:32 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Tonus - April 19, 2013 at 9:05 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 23, 2013 at 1:13 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Godschild - April 23, 2013 at 4:46 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 23, 2013 at 7:28 pm
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by paulpablo - April 24, 2013 at 12:48 am
RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition? - by Minimalist - April 24, 2013 at 1:27 am

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