• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Yes but the reason they’re holidays is Christian. And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

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      4 hours ago

      And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

      Yule and Eostre? The early Christians didn’t celebrate either (well, some did celebrate Pesach to some limited extent). They later did a hostile takeover of the pre-Christian soltitial and equinoctial festivities, in order to make sure nobody had any fun at them. They also converted a number of minor gods into saints (mostly now deprecated by the Catholic Church, but some still hanging around in Orthodox sects).