Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

[A_Nony_Mouse]

Aye, jews were forcibly converted in Portugal...
And they invented a special kind of sausage that made it look like they were eating pork, when, in fact, the sausage was made of bird (chicken/turkey) and/or rabbit meat, it's called alheira and is very good grilled... hmmmm...
Anyway, those people were called the new christians and eventually were integrated into standard christians. Portuguese jews are now very uncommon.

Thanks. I get the impression people think I am making this stuff up. I am not that creative.

Yahweh was so stupid he thought rabbits chewed their cud. That combined with some other taboo made them unclean.

And those who were sent back were the descendants of Berbers whose ancestors had converted to Judaism. They differed from their fellow Muslim north Africans in religion only.

One of these days I am going to dig into this and see when it got the entire popular BS about the Inquisition being solely a "poor us" Jewish thing.