Anglicora wrote:Well given that Easter and Christmas weren't stolen from pagans we have no reason to change anything. Unless you want to somehow prove that pagans celebrated the birth of and death & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Hmm, well the spring goddess Eostre would like to have a word.
Why is Easter called Easter?
And if you read the Bible, Jesus was born during lambing season, which in the Middle East would have been no later than October. But there was a pagan holiday, Saturnalia, which included gift gifting right there around the Winter Solstice. Care to guess where that falls?