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minus-squarerambaroo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoThe irony is it probably stems from some pagan belief and has nothing to do with Christianity.
minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHalloween is not a fertility festival, it is a fall harvest festival. Like Oktoberfest. The fertility festival is in Spring, and it’s called May Day.
minus-squareDaBPunkt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThe Oktoberfest is not a fertility festival. It was created to celebrate a royal wedding. The German fertility festival is called „Erntedank“ (~“thanks for the harvest”).
minus-squarerambaroo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoYeah I know. It just doesn’t sound like anything in the Bible so I assume it’s some weird bastardization of paganism. Or just completely made up. I’m only saying this because all the cool parts of “Christian” holidays like the Easter bunny and much of Christmas come straight from paganism.
minus-squareGreenBottles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI’m familiar with paganism, that doesn’t make sense either
minus-squareDalkor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoPaganism is just a Christian catch-all though for all non-abrahamic religions.
minus-squareGreenBottles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoumm through the lens of Christianity sure
minus-squarenBodyProblem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s a word coined by Christians specifically to convey that idea, so yea that’s usually the lens we’d be talking about when using the term
The irony is it probably stems from some pagan belief and has nothing to do with Christianity.
Halloween is not a fertility festival, it is a fall harvest festival. Like Oktoberfest.
The fertility festival is in Spring, and it’s called May Day.
The Oktoberfest is not a fertility festival. It was created to celebrate a royal wedding. The German fertility festival is called „Erntedank“ (~“thanks for the harvest”).
*Beltane
Yeah I know. It just doesn’t sound like anything in the Bible so I assume it’s some weird bastardization of paganism. Or just completely made up.
I’m only saying this because all the cool parts of “Christian” holidays like the Easter bunny and much of Christmas come straight from paganism.
I’m familiar with paganism, that doesn’t make sense either
Paganism is just a Christian catch-all though for all non-abrahamic religions.
umm through the lens of Christianity sure
It’s a word coined by Christians specifically to convey that idea, so yea that’s usually the lens we’d be talking about when using the term