Easter Exposed: Christianity's Shameless Theft of Pagan Traditions
Beyond the resurrection myth: How Christianity systematically erased the goddess Ēostre and stole her sacred rites.
Easter is a day when millions of devout Christians flood their churches, mouths filled with hymns, eyes gazing upward in blind adoration, utterly oblivious to the uncomfortable reality beneath their feet. Easter, that sacred Christian event supposedly celebrating the resurrection of a carpenter turned deity, is nothing more than a stolen, hijacked pagan holiday—a calculated theft carried out by an authoritarian institution hell-bent on eradicating older, wiser truths.
Pagan Roots: Earth, Fertility, Cycles
Long before the crucifixion myth was peddled door-to-door by zealous missionaries, ancient pagan cultures celebrated the raw and visceral rebirth of spring. The very name “Easter” is derived directly from the goddess Ēostre (Ostara), revered by ancient Germanic peoples. She symbolized the dawn itself—fertility, regeneration, and life’s relentless renewal. Rabbits and eggs—now cute Easter accessories—were powerful pagan symbols of fertility and the unyielding cycle of life.
Pagans celebrated this cycle through rituals that embraced the earth, fertility, and nature’s raw power. There was no talk of sin or salvation, only the profound recognition of life’s unstoppable momentum. The earth awakened from its death-like winter slumber, a miracle far more tangible than the resurrection of an obscure figure lacking any historical credibility.
Christianity’s Cultural Piracy
As Christianity spread like a cancerous imperial force across Europe, it methodically hijacked pagan rituals, traditions, and celebrations. The Church’s game was transparent: appropriate deeply rooted cultural events, rebrand them under a Christian façade, and thus secure a smoother assimilation into their authoritarian belief system.
Easter became a prime target for this spiritual robbery. Early church authorities conveniently aligned their fabricated story of Jesus’s resurrection with the ancient pagan celebrations of spring. This was no divine inspiration; it was cynical manipulation—a calculated effort to dominate pagan minds by subsuming their beliefs into a new, oppressive narrative.
The Fiction of Jesus’ Resurrection
The centerpiece of Christian Easter—the supposed crucifixion and resurrection—is a glaring historical fiction. Despite meticulous Roman record-keeping, which documented every major and minor event, trial, or execution, there is zero record of Jesus’s supposed execution. The Romans, known for their detailed bureaucratic rigor, somehow missed documenting what Christians claim was history’s greatest miracle.
Furthermore, the approximately 600,000 residents of Judea at the time curiously failed to mention this extraordinary event. Not one contemporary historian—no Josephus, no Philo, no Justus of Tiberias—ever documented a single miracle-working messiah who could raise the dead or feed thousands with scraps. Silence speaks louder than the manufactured verses of religious propagandists.
Resurrection: A Stolen Myth
The resurrection narrative itself is nothing original. Christianity borrowed liberally from existing myths, such as the dying and rising gods, a widespread motif throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Osiris in Egypt, Tammuz in Mesopotamia, Adonis in Greece, Attis in Phrygia—all predate Christianity by centuries, embodying the eternal, cyclical renewal of life and death.
This pattern was not revelation—it was theft. Christianity’s foundational miracle isn’t divine; it’s plagiarized myth-making, a cynical rewriting of pagan traditions to establish theological dominance.
Blind Hypocrisy
Today, Christians comfortably participate in egg hunts, decorate their homes with rabbits, and celebrate Easter Sunday in blissful ignorance. These pagan symbols—once sacred representations of fertility—are now sanitized consumer commodities. Ironically, the same Christians who demonize paganism embrace these rituals without question.
The Church sermonizes against the “sinful” nature of paganism while simultaneously perpetuating a holiday entirely rooted in it. This hypocrisy is not accidental—it’s woven into the very fabric of Christianity, a faith built upon historical distortions, cultural robbery, and authoritarian deceit.
Awakening to Truth
As Christians gather on Easter, perhaps it’s time they confronted the raw reality: Easter isn’t a holy day—it’s a stolen pagan festival cloaked in religious fiction. A day originally meant to honor the earth’s natural rebirth is now twisted into the worship of an invented resurrection. Yet, suppose believers dared to look beneath the fabricated surface. In that case, they’d find something richer—an authentic connection to life, to the earth, and to the timeless rhythms humanity recognized long before the Church imposed its fictional narratives.
Easter should be reclaimed—not as a hollow spectacle celebrating historical fiction, but as a profound acknowledgment of nature’s enduring truth: life, death, and rebirth are eternal cycles, requiring no divine validation, no authoritarian approval, and certainly no stolen mythologies.
—Zzenn
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Perfectly said. This kind of historical reclamation is vital