Natasha 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)
"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?
PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."
Scott Williams 🐧@Natasha_Jay For what it's worth, I very recently saw that this might not actually be true. I thought it was for decades though, because it does make a lot of sense.
Easter is NOT pagan
Meerkat26@vwbusguy @Natasha_Jay darn she's pissed! Okay, the eggs and the rabbits are not easter, fine. But they're definitely tied to springtime and new beginnings. Frankly i find eggs, rabbits and little lambs quite logical to look forward to at the moment you see that finally the day starts getting longer than the night. What's her problem?
@Meerkat26 @Natasha_Jay If the biggest fault you can find is her tone, it sounds like she did a pretty good job.
@vwbusguy @Natasha_Jay oh i agree there, she made a good case! A lot of things we think we know about the middle ages were conjured up in the 1800s. This lady did a good job of pointing out where some notions of pre-christian "Easter" are exactly that, and lack any medieval mention or trace. The tone doesn't lessen what she has to say - her ire just puzzles me
@Meerkat26 @Natasha_Jay Considering she is a historical fiction writer and this derailed her character idea, I can imagine that being much more frustrating than what most of us might feel about this. This info doesn't change any major plans I had for my dayjob.