I Don’t Know Why They’re So Upset, They Jacked Easter From The Pagans Anyway
Republicans had their heckles up over Transgender Day Of Visibility (TDOV) aligning with Easter Sunday this year. Vocal dissidents accused President Biden of attempting to replace the Christian holiday with transgender propaganda.
Kinda ironic considering Easter wasn’t about Jesus until the Christian faith appropriated the pagan Springtime celebration.
There’s just no making this up
Conservatives were angered by President Biden releasing a statement on Easter Sunday to commemorate the date also being TDOV. The president’s statement reads: “Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you’re worthy of respect and dignity.”
It’s a pretty uncontroversial message that, on face value, aligns with what Christian tenets teach about love and respect. But, of course, it did not go down well with certain groups of religious folk. Fox News pundit Jesse Watters claimed the LGBTQIA+ community was taking shots at Christianity by choosing Easter Sunday to celebrate TDOV.
Someone should tell Watters that Easter can happen on any day from March 22 to April 25. Not only that, the holiday itself is derivative of pagan worship around the goddess Eostre. Anglo-Saxon peasants had their traditions Christianised following orders from Pope Gregory in AD 595; hence celebrations of the goddess Eostre became commemorating the rise of Jesus on Easter Sunday.
Annoyingly, conservatives seemed to have also missed that Biden posted a Happy Easter tweet which precedes his honouring of TVOD.
