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In reply to the discussion: An Easter Blessing [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,985 posts)And I stand by my point that it's one thing to have an honest debate and something else to sneer, as the OP's quote has done. Everybody knows Easter derives some of its customs and legends from paganism and other religions. So what? That, at least to believers, doesn't disprove the fundamental belief that Christians hold regarding Easter, which was that Jesus was resurrected. In fact, all snark does is gets people's backs up. You will never persuade a believing Christian that his or her beliefs are false just because somebody says, Hey, silly Christians, the name Easter came from the goddess Oestre and some other gods were born of a virgin and rose from the dead so Jesus can't possibly have done it and you guys just stole their ideas, so ha, ha, stupid Christians.
This isn't an honest debate, it's mocking.