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."

@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.

https://youtu.be/CnkpdpjGgTY

Easter is NOT pagan

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@vwbusguy @Natasha_Jay the name "Easter" may derive from that of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, but we have almost no evidence for that - literally two lines in a history written by a medieval monk who had no first-hand knowledge of paganism. The festival (which in every non-Germanic European language is called some variant of "Pesach") is certainly not derived from Eostre's rites, if they even existed. See the series of posts starting at https://cavalorn.livejournal.com/502368.html

(I enjoyed the comic, though!)

@pozorvlak @Natasha_Jay And "paschal" which comes from pesach, which is the Hebrew word for Passover, which overlaps with Holy Week. That is not a coincidence.