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Help[Opinions] Re: Easter
in reply to a message by Cass
Hehee.
So was Diana the name of a goddess, and Bridget and Chloe and Rhiannon and Irene and Tanith and Freya and Vesta refer to goddesses too..
So "having a religious meaning at one point" does not really make a name honor the religion it derived from. That's a bit silly, isn't it? The problem was that Easter refers to a Christian holiday - albeit one coopted from paganism - it's immediately perceived as Christian now, so the name Easter would be superficially perceived as "honoring" Christianity. I guess that's all that matters, though.
- chazda the pedantic
So was Diana the name of a goddess, and Bridget and Chloe and Rhiannon and Irene and Tanith and Freya and Vesta refer to goddesses too..
So "having a religious meaning at one point" does not really make a name honor the religion it derived from. That's a bit silly, isn't it? The problem was that Easter refers to a Christian holiday - albeit one coopted from paganism - it's immediately perceived as Christian now, so the name Easter would be superficially perceived as "honoring" Christianity. I guess that's all that matters, though.
- chazda the pedantic
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