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Wednesday, April 04, 2018

The Pagan Roots of Easter?

When The Guardian published a piece on “The Pagan Roots of Easter,” ancient historian Tom Holland called it “the most historically illiterate article I’ve ever read in a major newspaper – and that’s saying something.”
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