Young People Today Have No Idea What Easter Is Really About.

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45. I guess you can take the view that it would be natural for first century peasants in Roman occupied

Judaea to concern themselves mainly with Germanic equinox festivals and the pressing problem, Can we find some Germanic equinox festival and disguise it as a story about the Jerusalem establishment collaborating with the Roman occupation forces to brutally lynch an innocent man at the beginning of the great Jewish holiday celebrating deliverance from enslavement by a foreign empire?

I myself can understand why first century Jewish peasants might be interested in tales involving traditional Jewish themes of deliverance from cruel empires -- but (due to my slow wit, perhaps) I cannot understand why first century Jewish peasants would bother to go find themselves some Germanic equinox festival (of which no historic record now remains) and to dress it up in disguise