SPECIAL EPISODE: Easter - A Pagan Holiday?

The 9941 Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week Granger and AntMan discuss whether Christians should celebrate Easter, ultimately affirming it as a time to honor Christ’s resurrection—something believers should reflect on daily, not just annually.

They share personal Easter memories and explore traditions like eggs and bunnies. AntMan explains that eggs were preserved during Lent and later decorated, even gifted by King Edward I. The Easter bunny, originally a hare, became linked to spring, but ties to paganism are historically weak.

Granger reads from Exodus 12, connecting the first Passover to Jesus as the spotless Lamb. They emphasize that Easter isn’t about pagan roots or cultural symbols, but about God’s redemption through Christ.

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0:00.0	Maybe it's that.
0:01.6	Easter.
0:02.5	The question is, should Christians celebrate Easter?
0:07.9	I'm going to start with, do you think, because this is, in the last 50 years, that question
0:18.7	has asked more now than it ever has been. I'm not talking about 100 years or 200
0:23.2	years. I'm talking about the last 50. Sure. That question is... Our lifetime. Yeah. That question has
0:28.2	resurfaced. Who do you think is the louder voice right now on if Christians should celebrate
0:34.2	Easter? And I say that specific way. I'm not talking about Resurrection Sunday.
0:38.3	I'm talking about the word Easter.
0:40.2	If you should celebrate it in the way that...
0:42.3	Well, there's ways that we could celebrate it.
0:45.6	You know, there's like levels of celebration.
0:47.4	We'll talk about that, too.
0:49.2	But who do you think is a louder voice?
0:51.8	The people against what we're saying or the people for it?
0:55.2	You mean against celebrating Easter?
0:56.6	Yes.
0:56.9	Yeah.
0:57.3	Against, I think, right.
0:58.6	I think just because the question is that that's the louder voice.
1:02.3	The question is, should you celebrate Easter?
1:04.7	That means that everybody's going, well, I don't know.
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