Are Easter and Christmas “Pagan” Holidays?

Digging in to a Common Idea about how Religions Interact

Michael A Gold
9 min readApr 18, 2022

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Every year, especially around Easter and Christmas, a wide variety of memes, social media posts, and cheeky discussions at holiday gatherings assert one simple fact over and over: that Christmas and Easter, the two most important Christian holidays, are not really Christian at all, but repackaged…

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Michael A Gold

Michael writes about history, religion, and the Bible. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and Netflix account.