Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Most movable feasts and at least a dozen other important Holidays that takes place before and after Easter — including Shrovetide, Lent, Holy Week, the Ascension, Whit Sunday, Holy Trinity — are all fixed according to the date set for Easter.

Easter and Passover fall on the same weekend more often than not, but the two only coincide with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan about once every 30 years.

Bede, who was one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages and is considered by many historians to be the most important scholar of antiquity for the period between the death of Pope Gregory I in 604 and the coronation of Charlemagne in 800, the month of April was called Eosturmonath, or Eostre Month, after the goddess Eostre. He wrote that a pagan festival of spring in the name of the goddess had become assimilated into the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ.

The tale is that Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of the spring, transformed a bird into a hare, and the hare responded by laying colored eggs for her festival. Some online sources, such as Goddess Gift, claim this story is very old indeed.

Is it a coincidence that all these festivals and holidays all fall around the same time? I go back to a saying that coincidence takes a whole lot of planning and coordination. Most if not all the “Christian” holidays coincide with a pagan festival that is not a coincidence its more likely coopting or in modern terms rebranding.

My other big question about Easter is that according to biblical text the crucifixion was on a Friday during the holy week of Passover and the resurrection was the Sunday following. By my logic that give us a definitive date for the resurrection, which is the entire event that Christianity is based on. Here is my dilemma, Easter, which there is more evidence of a date, is a floating holiday that could range from the end of March to the middle of April. Christmas is asset date, December 25^th, supposed to be the birth of Jesus but there is no refence to the actual day anywhere in biblical text.

I ask myself these questions then remember that Christianity is an opportunistic faith that rebrands other ancient celebrations to suit their narrative.

Last thing the commercialization of Easter is based on the Pagan fertility spring festival. Did you ever wonder what in the world eggs, chicks. rabbits, and chocolate have to do with any bible story. Well, they don’t… best as I can surmise is eggs and chicks are new life, we all know what rabbits are famous for, and its not racing turtles, and chocolate is an aphrodisiac that make one what to act like the infamous rabbit.

So Happy Spring Everyone 😊