Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

[thesummerqueen]

Major Christian holidays bear resemblance to pagan traditions in two ways:

A "god" being born around the winter solstice.

A "dying and resurrecting god" being sacrificed in spring/summer.

Even if you take away the festival parts of Christmas and the eggs and rabbits part of Easter, which surely harken back to pagan bits, you still have those two major themes. These are common pagan themes.

The Jews were once polytheistic insofar as way back in the day there were tribes of people who used to worship polytheistic deities and eventually those tribes moved over to monotheism, probably still bearing some of the symbols they originally held for festivals.

But again, while those symbols are there, the holiday itself of Passover, if it once had something to do with a pagan festival, has fuck all to do with it now. The myth may have been invented after a "spring feast" but it certainly took it over to the point that the holiday isn't about the spring, it isn't about fertility, it isn't about anything at all except this false story of escaping Egyptians and wandering around in the desert. So I'm not sure what the fuck you're actually looking for.

I'm not trying to make this holiday out as something special because it "isn't" pagan. I'm just stating my opinion based on years of celebration of a holiday in which the only "spring" that was let into the house were the flowers I brought in. The rest was false reminisces on sorrows and tribulations. Trust Jews to figure out a way to feel like shit when everything is blooming.

If you want to find something with more 'pagan' roots, I suggest you find a holiday like Sukkot, which is a harvest feast, and not a holiday based on an event.