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The post below is from STJ on his Twitter. https://www.group-telegram.com/survivethejive

I'm sharing here because he hasn't yet, but it is a very solid statement on Easter and English Paganism.

The conversion of English kingdoms to Christianity began with their kings but did NOT end there.

The last Heathen English king, Arwald, died in 686. Bede was born in 672/3. In Bede’s own land of Northumbria there had been mass reversion to Heathenry in 633 following the death of their Xian king.

The idea that Bede’s account of the goddess Easter can be seen as “faulty history” as some claim, is absurd. He very probably met Heathens as first hand sources! Or even if he was too sheltered in his cloisters to have experienced rural peasant culture, the elder monks around him, and travelling merchants would have FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of English Heathens. Many of them raised by Heathen parents!

There is absolutely no way he could have made up an imaginary goddess to explain the name of such an important Christian holiday. It would go against all his purposes to do so. This is wishful thinking from certain Christians who want to throw shade on what is an uncontroversial fact among philologists.

https://x.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1908785549642518673?s=19

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The post below is from STJ on his Twitter. https://www.group-telegram.com/survivethejive

I'm sharing here because he hasn't yet, but it is a very solid statement on Easter and English Paganism.

The conversion of English kingdoms to Christianity began with their kings but did NOT end there.

The last Heathen English king, Arwald, died in 686. Bede was born in 672/3. In Bede’s own land of Northumbria there had been mass reversion to Heathenry in 633 following the death of their Xian king.

The idea that Bede’s account of the goddess Easter can be seen as “faulty history” as some claim, is absurd. He very probably met Heathens as first hand sources! Or even if he was too sheltered in his cloisters to have experienced rural peasant culture, the elder monks around him, and travelling merchants would have FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of English Heathens. Many of them raised by Heathen parents!

There is absolutely no way he could have made up an imaginary goddess to explain the name of such an important Christian holiday. It would go against all his purposes to do so. This is wishful thinking from certain Christians who want to throw shade on what is an uncontroversial fact among philologists.

https://x.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1908785549642518673?s=19

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