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[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The irony is it probably stems from some pagan belief and has nothing to do with Christianity.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Halloween is not a fertility festival, it is a fall harvest festival. Like Oktoberfest.

The fertility festival is in Spring, and it's called May Day.

[–] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The Oktoberfest is not a fertility festival. It was created to celebrate a royal wedding. The German fertility festival is called „Erntedank“ (~“thanks for the harvest”).

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah I know. It just doesn't sound like anything in the Bible so I assume it's some weird bastardization of paganism. Or just completely made up.

I'm only saying this because all the cool parts of "Christian" holidays like the Easter bunny and much of Christmas come straight from paganism.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with paganism, that doesn't make sense either

[–] Dalkor@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Paganism is just a Christian catch-all though for all non-abrahamic religions.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

umm through the lens of Christianity sure

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It’s a word coined by Christians specifically to convey that idea, so yea that’s usually the lens we’d be talking about when using the term