> In Germany, the day is known as Karfreitag In Germany its known as "brücketag" because Thursday was a public holiday and people take a "bridge-day" on Friday to extend the weekend.
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Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
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#22In Danish it’s called Langfredag (Long Friday). I believe it’s because of the drawn out suffering of the crucifixion.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s talk about Christmas then. They deliberately put it at a time where many northern folks had their own traditional end of the year / longest night (opposite to midd summer) festivals. In Germany we have Nikolaus on the 6.12 (goes back to a priest St Nikolaus who did good to people and I believe died on the 6th of December) But the name is striking to Santa Claus which is just a Anglo version of that name. Intere…
> They deliberately put it Who did? When?
The Catholic Church. The fourth century.
https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-christmas
>In the fourth century, church officials decided to institute the birth of Jesus as a holiday. Unfortunately, the Bible does not mention date for his birth (a fact Puritans later pointed out in order to deny the legitimacy of the celebration).
>Although some evidence suggests that Jesus' birth may have occurred in the spring (why would shepherds be herding in the middle of winter?), Pope Julius I chose December 25. It is commonly believed that the church chose this date in an effort to adopt and absorb the traditions of the pagan Saturnalia festival
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#24> In Germany, the day is known as Karfreitag In Germany its known as "brücketag" because Thursday was a public holiday and people take a "bridge-day" on Friday to extend the weekend.
Karfreitag can't be a bridge day since it is a public holiday (gesetzlicher Feiertag).
Although Thursday was a regional commemoration day (Gründonnerstag), it wasn't a public holiday, so most people still worked.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s talk about Christmas then. They deliberately put it at a time where many northern folks had their own traditional end of the year / longest night (opposite to midd summer) festivals. In Germany we have Nikolaus on the 6.12 (goes back to a priest St Nikolaus who did good to people and I believe died on the 6th of December) But the name is striking to Santa Claus which is just a Anglo version of that name. Intere…
> They deliberately put it Who did? When?
Well the Bible was written some 300 years after all of this happened. Jesus didn’t own a birth certificate nor was it ever officially written down. As to who decides when what happened and wrote it down I don‘t know.
We have historical figures where we don‘t know exactly when their born. But we don‘t just write a data down.
Here is a link going in more detail and actually contradicts what I wrote. But points about the Santa Claus etc still stand. And I see no real hard evidence to the contrary either.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/why-decembe...
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#26I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. yet it still includes a good amount of the prior symbolism (rabbits, eggs etc)! Still great to have a short break from work! Not arguing against it at all, it just seems a bit bizarre to me overall.
It isn't arbitrary. The death and resurrection of Jesus happened after the Jewish passover, which happens in the spring. It is also easy to see how symbols of renewed life and fertility in the spring could be adapted to symbolize Jesus coming back to life.
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#27I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. yet it still includes a good amount of the prior symbolism (rabbits, eggs etc)! Still great to have a short break from work! Not arguing against it at all, it just seems a bit bizarre to me overall.
https://youtu.be/0m2ZQaxfpnY?si=t0zQAWhZEW8Uoa2z the Easter Bunny is not pagan, it's a much more recent tradition.
Thanks for the correction there! I was not aware that Easter Bunny was much more like Santa than something associated with Eostre or Pagan.
I guess the bunny still got something similar to the Coke-branding that Santa got to help product sales, but for chocolate sales instead!?
I retract the 'rabbits' part of what I said, but I still think it's ultimately a fairly weird taken-over/hybrid-mythology festival! I'm only able to talk about Easter as I know it in Aus though!.. I totally acknowledge festivals and their timing/meaning are very different in other places.
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#28I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. yet it still includes a good amount of the prior symbolism (rabbits, eggs etc)! Still great to have a short break from work! Not arguing against it at all, it just seems a bit bizarre to me overall.
You realise that jewish people have had easter for a certain number of years before christ?
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#29> In Germany, the day is known as Karfreitag In Germany its known as "brücketag" because Thursday was a public holiday and people take a "bridge-day" on Friday to extend the weekend.
Any day between holidays and weekend is a "Brückentag", a bridge day. Friday would be a bridge day, if thursday were a public holiday. So would monday, if tuesday were one. It's not a term a for specific day, but for a type of day.
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#30I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. yet it still includes a good amount of the prior symbolism (rabbits, eggs etc)! Still great to have a short break from work! Not arguing against it at all, it just seems a bit bizarre to me overall.
https://youtu.be/0m2ZQaxfpnY?si=t0zQAWhZEW8Uoa2z the Easter Bunny is not pagan, it's a much more recent tradition.
The video doesn't disprove a long standing non Christian association between what is now Easter and rabbits.
What it does state is in agreement with the wikipedia article on the connection between Ēostre and rabbits, namely:
The earliest evidence for the Easter Hare (Osterhase) was recorded in south-west Germany in 1678 by the professor of medicine Georg Franck von Franckenau
This is the earliest still extant written account of folk practices that had been occurring for some indeterminant time.
We are aware that the brewing of beer predates by many centuries, millenia even, the earliest still extant written account of the practice of brewing beer.