Arguably? More like factually. It represented renewal and rebirth at the time of winter solstice.
Easter is literally named after the goddess of spring and the easter bunny is a celebration of fertility. Ishtar, which sounds remarkably like easter, was the Babylonian goddess of fertility.
All the patron saints are just replacements for local pagan deities that offered various protections to the various. Communities.
Arizonan...you should realize your Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christ or his birth. You are celebrating ancient pagan traditions overlain with Christian mythology.
Nowadays people put their modern traditions and beliefs to practice, but keep the holiday tree. Christians stole it from the pagans...now the atheists are taking it from the Christians.
BFD. A lot of Jewish traditions are outgrowths of polytheistic Middle Eastern religions. And Islam has a very conspicuous one in the form of the Ka'aba. But that doesn't mean we can all just erect a big black box somewhere and pretend it has nothing to do with Islam.
Haha, good point. Now let me sing my holiday carols while I spin my holiday top and eat my holiday pancakes.
