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Originally Posted by SRoper I find your quote from the "5th century" "pagan philosopher" Socrates to be pretty incredible. "...the celebration of the feast of Easter began everywhere more of custom than by any commandment either by Christ or any apostle." Yes, Socrates lived in the 5th centrury...BC! Was he a prophet as well as a philosopher?
I'm sure the rest of the podcast is equally well researched. | Scott, there were others who went by the name Socrates, including an early church historian: Socrates of Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
I know, but that Socrates was not a pagan philosopher as Matt said.
I don't pay attention to the church calendar, so I don't really care about Easter. However, I find the argument against Easter because of its pagan name to be rather poor. It really only works for Germanic languages. In the Romance languages and other languages like Russian, the word they use for Easter is based on the word for Passover.