Replying to Russell Brand: Christmas is the ‘pagan’ or pre-Christian midwinter festival and the Roman Saturnalia or festival of Saturn worship – a major Roman god of agriculture, harvest and time. Easter is founded on pre-Christian spring, rebirth and fertility festivals
As one article said: ‘Around 200 BCE, the mystery cult of the goddess Cybele was popular in Rome … Cybele, another goddess of renewal and spring, had a lover named Attis, who was born of a virgin, and died and was reborn every spring … as Christianity rose to prominence alongside those pagan beliefs, elements […]
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