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10 facts about Easter

Updated: 9/17/2023

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It's a pagan holiday
It's origin was about fertility
It was worshiped with sex
The eggs are what represented the fertility
Bunny had nothing to do with it other than when we changed it to make it a nice holiday instead of paganistic
Hiding eggs was only part of the niceties they added
It has nothing to do with Jesus
We relate it to Jesus passover only as a means of making the industry money because it tries to get the kids of the religious to buy the candy and eggs to hide
It marks the end of lint for Jews
It came about in the mid 2nd century and was not celebrated before that.

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