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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

My days off are Saturn-day and Sun-day. Like all the other days of the week in English, those names have a pre-Christian origin.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes but the reason they're holidays is Christian. And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

    Yule and Eostre? The early Christians didn't celebrate either (well, some did celebrate Pesach to some limited extent). They later did a hostile takeover of the pre-Christian soltitial and equinoctial festivities, in order to make sure nobody had any fun at them. They also converted a number of minor gods into saints (mostly now deprecated by the Catholic Church, but some still hanging around in Orthodox sects).

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