Christmas is indeed a "re-purposed" holiday, but Easter is a historical observance based on the Jewish passover combined with the resurrection. Atheist claims that it was once "pagan" are made up. (Though the bunnies and eggs may well be adopted from pagan spring celebrations.)
Christmas is indeed a "re-purposed" holiday, but Easter is a historical observance based on the Jewish passover combined with the resurrection. Atheist claims that it was once "pagan" are made up. (Though the bunnies and eggs may well be adopted from pagan spring celebrations.)
Easter is a planting season celebration, as far as I know.
The Jewish religion isn't that old really, it was founded in 700 BC, their god "Yahweh" is most likely the Babylonian God of War. Much of their history is fabricated. There was no King David for example, and "the Philistines" are very likely to be the Palestinians now (or rather their descendants). There was never an "Israel".
It's really hard to tell, but you can see the crossover of Easter with some, dead, spring celebration. Probably a pagan celebration of rebirth, after all, even today, we associate bunnies with reproduction.
We don't really know. Records are destroyed purposely, or were... We can all record history now. The problem we're working on now, is longevity of the records. Today, you can record more books than you could POSSIBLY read in a lifetime, on an $11 SD card, but it stops working in about 10 years, 20 years at most.
Indelible data storage is our last step. When we get that... People in 4000 AD will be able to see how we actually lived. That's like being able to see how Rome REALLY was in 0 AD. We have to develop permanent data storage.
Christmas is indeed a "re-purposed" holiday, but Easter is a historical observance based on the Jewish passover combined with the resurrection. Atheist claims that it was once "pagan" are made up. (Though the bunnies and eggs may well be adopted from pagan spring celebrations.)
Easter is a planting season celebration, as far as I know.
The Jewish religion isn't that old really, it was founded in 700 BC, their god "Yahweh" is most likely the Babylonian God of War. Much of their history is fabricated. There was no King David for example, and "the Philistines" are very likely to be the Palestinians now (or rather their descendants). There was never an "Israel".
It's really hard to tell, but you can see the crossover of Easter with some, dead, spring celebration. Probably a pagan celebration of rebirth, after all, even today, we associate bunnies with reproduction.
We don't really know. Records are destroyed purposely, or were... We can all record history now. The problem we're working on now, is longevity of the records. Today, you can record more books than you could POSSIBLY read in a lifetime, on an $11 SD card, but it stops working in about 10 years, 20 years at most.
Indelible data storage is our last step. When we get that... People in 4000 AD will be able to see how we actually lived. That's like being able to see how Rome REALLY was in 0 AD. We have to develop permanent data storage.