Ack, usually this stuff only pops up on Facebook around Christmas, but I just saw a meme about how Easter (and the eggs, etc) is just a "pagan" holiday. Quoting my comment:
I've pointed this out for twenty years, and it never seems to sink in for people, but here goes: Duh, and who cares? Of course, when Christianity moved into new areas it was easier to incorporate the existing celebration practices into the new religion. Symbols are just that, representations of ideas, and the church created new "ideas" to affix to the traditional practices. It made the transition easier. Christmas is still the celebration of Christ's birth, Easter still the celebration of his Rebirth. Who gives a shit if wreaths originally celebrated X if they now clearly and definitely proclaim Y? A guy gives a ring to his ex wife. After a messy divorce, twenty years later he gives another (different) engagement ring to the new love of his life. You're going to argue that ring is a mockery of his second wife because once upon a time it was a symbol of his adoration for a different woman? Hell no.
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