Surely Easter is a pagan fertility rite? It's all about eggs and rabbits!
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The possible reason, and i researced is that Easter and Christmas Could be the other way Round, Christmas-Christ MASS- The Sacrifice(death) of Christ MASS can also mean the lords Supper--The Last Supper This is important evidence to disprove a December date for Christ's birth. Note that, at the time of Christ's birth, the shepherds tended their flocks in the fields at night. "Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields," wrote one Gospel writer, "keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). A common practice of shepherds was keeping their flocks in the field from April to October, but in the cold and rainy winter months they took their flocks back home and sheltered them.
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The Age of Pisces began at the Spring Equinox of 5 BC. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus was born near the end of Herod's reign which would place his birth at 6-4 BCE
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Actually it isn't..it is about resurrection. But you already know this.
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Most Catholic holidays are actually founded on pagan high-holidays. It had to do with that whole push to Christianize the world back in the Middle Ages.
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It is for me. Well maybe more like the celebration of life and renewel etc
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wow. i never thought of it like that, i suppose it is when all the lambs are being born and the flowers are out and stuff
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Well, think about it, Easter occurs about the same time as Beltane, Christmas is 4 days after the Winter Solstice, and harvest celebrations are often celebrated at the autumn equinox. See a pattern?
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