Sentences with phrase «co-opted pagan holiday»

Christmas is a co-opted pagan holiday just like Easter.

I know of none of my atheist friends who celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs and know of no Christians who don't except maybe the JW's, but for the sake of argument I will concede that if they do then yes, they are also co-opting a pagan holiday.

Not exact matches

And the pagans co-opted their holiday from someone else.

I'm not Christian anymore, but I celebrate it as a family day, because you know, quite frankly, we need at least one of those each year (and besides, whatever name it has, it was co-opted by Christians from a much older, pagan holiday, so it's fair game).

They were just co-opted from pagan holidays and do not require worship in magic man in the sky to have fun on those days.