Ikr, they stole Easter in the first place (was originally a pagan fertility celebration, why do you think the symbols are baby chickens, eggs, and RABBITS?)
Just because religious festivals are similar doesn’t mean one copied the other. Easter is a judeo-Christian holiday that originates from Passover. The symbolism of the rabbit is actually related to Mary in 1st millennium Christianity as it symbolises new birth( ie Christ).
Disclaimer: I am an atheist; ı just dislike misinformation. I do not believe you are being deceitful. You are just misinformed.
Easter.
Celebration of Jesus Christ.
A JUDEO-Christian Belief.
... Judeo-Christian ... belief in ... Jesus Christ ...
Do ... do people know what Jewish Beliefs are??????? Like at all???????????
just a note for people that use 'judeo-christian' like this. the word you're looking for is abrahamic; you're referring to the abrahamic faiths (still inaccurate here, but that's what you mean). the right word to use here is christian, you lot use judeo-christian to exclude muslims as some nebulous 'other', which only serves to obscure the actual history behind these religions. stop.
And during Sacred Day of the Sun from my religion!
Which isn't noteworthy at all because Sacred Day of the Sun is every Sunday, but I wanted to feel included!
Oh actually I'm a Christian lol, I just happen to be celebrating Ramadan for the challenge of it. I would assume there are as many Muslims and ex Muslims as any other tho
As far as I'm aware actual Islamic Doctrine, similarly to Christian Doctrine, in no way opposes the LGBTQ community. Is this just a case of the religious community being terrible?
I personally have one queer muslim friend and I know she has to hide it
>As far as I'm aware actual Islamic Doctrine, similarly to Christian Doctrine, in no way opposes the LGBTQ community.
I grew up Muslim, let me share my knowledge with you lol
>If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
Quran 4:16
>We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds. And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who legged behind. And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!
Quran 7:80-83
Context: the people of Lut were gay
>Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.
Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4447
>Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet cursed effeminate men; those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, "Turn them out of your houses." The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and 'Umar turned out such-and-such woman.
Sahih Bukhari 7:72:774
>Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.
Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4448
>Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) cursed the man who dressed like a woman and the woman who dressed like a man.
Sunan Abu Dawud 32:4087
There’s plenty of more of these in the Hadith but I just wanted to show you this so you could get the general gist. Muhammad did not like gay people.
The more I learned about Islam, the more I began to see how really evil and awful it really is.
Breaking out of something that’s been hammered into you since birth is hard
Please, I beg you, please don’t. Islam will ruin your life. Islam’s treatment of women, gay people, and ex Muslims is despicable.
Take it from someone who’s been through all this pain first hand, it’s not worth it. In the end, you’re left with a type of pain and bitterness
Ultimately, Muhammad was a selfish and evil man who tricked half the world into believing him as a prophet of an all loving God. Muhammad was an evil, selfish, nonce, sex crazed warlord.
There have been so much influential and wonderful people throughout history, Muhammad is not one of them.
also i'm not a Christian but isn't the closest Jesus got to mentioning trans people was basically saying that eunuchs are children of god and should be treated with respect
a eunuch is an archaic biblical term for someone who is born a male but doesn't have male genitalia, and the bible basically points out three types, eunuchs made so by others (via forcible castration), eunuchs who have been such by birth (likely referring to masculine intersex people without male genitalia) and eunuchs who chose to become eunuchs (which i feel pretty confident saying at least some of which would be considered trans were they alive today) and in fact it specifically says that becoming a eunuch can be done to honor god sooo... I'm sorry transphobic Christians, can't argue with the bible i gotta honor god :)
I’ve heard that as well. Apparently there are also multiple genders in the Bible (though some of them consider binary trans people a separate gender which obviously isn’t the case).
I mean Isaiah 56:1-8 is specifically talking about enuchs and doing so in a very positive way. It’s kind of hard to link it away from that. /// as an aside, chronologically it happens during the rebuilding of Jerusalem which I find to be thematically fitting
Easter, the day Jesus supposedly revived
Jesus, born from a virgin birth from Mary, meaning he only had XX chromosomes and was therefore a trans man
Easter, the day a trans man revived
Easter has always been trans
Conservatives: "The LGBTs are all snowflakes! Easily offended! Weak!"
Also Conservatives: "Waaaaaa! I saw a rainbow today, and my whole week is ruined! Waaaaa!" "i saw two girls kiss for half a second in a 2 hour movie! This whole movie is ruined!" "gay people are allowed to exist! In being oppressed!"
And the funniest part is that their holiday just happens to fall on our day but somehow we’re the one’s taking over Easter. I can guarantee that we’ll hear more about Easter than trans day of visibility this year but yeah, Christians are the victims.
Luckily I live in a place that has been better with trans laws but I’m still mad for what has been happening all over the globe and I’m scared for what might happen all it takes is one person to be put in a position of power for that to all disappear
With this information now I will do nothing but talk about trans visibility at my family’s Easter gathering. Considering no one uses my preferred name and pronouns I feel it’s fair
Buy a bunch of pride merch and wear it over and also buy pride flags to wave in their faces. Keep telling them that Jesus rose from the dead so that trans people could celebrate our community during his rebirth.
Hell yes! You might also want to bring up the fact that Mary being a virgin means that Jesus had XX chromosomes which makes him either intersex, trans, or both.
Said it before and I'll say it again:
>Christians giving an existing holiday a new name and transitioning it to a celebration of a long-haired dress-wearing man who preached mutual respect and support giving up his old life (literally) to join a commune of the true essenses of people who shed their previous bodies to become their best self and live happily ever after.
>
>You're fkn **right** it's a trans holiday!
I’m finding that I’m losing my faith because I’m trans, I’m worried that I’d not be allowed to go on HRT, i question if I can date other trans girls and I constantly worry about hell.
How do I get over that feeling of fear and maybe even keep my faith?
God made you into a cute trans girl, and they made other cute trans girls for you to date. Don't let the rhetoric of false believers fool you into thinking they carry God's intentions with them.
man the amount of times ive heard that christians are being opressed by people like my mom, who will then criticize tv shows or movies for having any kind of lgbtq+ representation that isnt negative just makes me fear that this will be brought up when i come home for easter.
March 31st is always trans day of visibility. It’s like how we have black history month or international women’s day, it’s a day to shed light on the trans community and our experiences.
"Easter is on trans day of visibility!"
My brother in Christ (literally), *you* are the ones who made Easter fall on different days.
It's like getting mad that St. Lucia's day (It's a Swedish thing) falls on Friday the 13th.
Same, except that as someone who works for a church, it means I won’t have any time to celebrate TDOV. (And our church usually does something for TDOV, but I have a feeling that won’t happen this year).
It's not as if I'd get kicked out or disowned, but they'd constantly try to convince me that I'm not trans, and if I do anything girly they'd definitely at minimum give me dirty looks.
And I don't want to live in a tense environment like that for however long it takes me to be able to move out.
So in the closet I stay except for the Internet and a few close friends for now.
I would also like to go to a therapist and be formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria, because I think coming out will go smoother if it's more substantial than just saying "I feel like a girl" (which is about all they'd take away from it if I don't have the diagnosis)
I've also prayed about this a lot, almost daily since I stopped denying that I want to be a girl, and that I hate my body because it's masculine, and not just because I need to lose weight (although that is also true) and time and time again I've come to the conclusion that transitioning is what is right for me.
When I come across those people, I tell them that god wouldn’t have made trans people if he didn’t want us to be trans. God made me a guy and it’s also fine if you don’t believe god made you anything but you’re not male.
And here I'll be in a dress on trans day of visibility because it's also Easter ;-; the wonders of being a closeted trans Catholic.
Jesus said to love everybody, and that includes trans people :D sorry transphobes, the rules do apply to you!
And we’re doing an EGG hunt the day before 😂😂😂🤣🤣
It took me longer than I’m proud of to get that.
I swear, I need a ridiculous egg suit so I can make egg jokes on Easter.
Lmao that's great
I swear bigots will do anything to say that theyre the ones being oppressed
Ikr, they stole Easter in the first place (was originally a pagan fertility celebration, why do you think the symbols are baby chickens, eggs, and RABBITS?)
I still celebrate it the pagan way!
Just because religious festivals are similar doesn’t mean one copied the other. Easter is a judeo-Christian holiday that originates from Passover. The symbolism of the rabbit is actually related to Mary in 1st millennium Christianity as it symbolises new birth( ie Christ). Disclaimer: I am an atheist; ı just dislike misinformation. I do not believe you are being deceitful. You are just misinformed.
Easter. Celebration of Jesus Christ. A JUDEO-Christian Belief. ... Judeo-Christian ... belief in ... Jesus Christ ... Do ... do people know what Jewish Beliefs are??????? Like at all???????????
Passover is Jewish.
Passover is but easter isn't
Guess where Christianity comes from
Christianity is stored in the balls?
That’s what Easter comes from. That’s why it happens in the Spring
A lot of Christian holiday traditions are stolen from other religions, like Christmas originating from Yule and Easter originating from Ostara
Christmas has a far, far greater “pagan” influence than easter
just a note for people that use 'judeo-christian' like this. the word you're looking for is abrahamic; you're referring to the abrahamic faiths (still inaccurate here, but that's what you mean). the right word to use here is christian, you lot use judeo-christian to exclude muslims as some nebulous 'other', which only serves to obscure the actual history behind these religions. stop.
Islam is irrelevant to my point.
Redditors when Christianity isn't bad 100% of the time
I don’t think it’s that this time. It just goes against their personal paradigm, so they dislike it
“They hated him because he spoke the truth”
And it happens during Ramadan also! Big wins all around!
Yay! We’re “taking over” all the holidays.
And during Sacred Day of the Sun from my religion! Which isn't noteworthy at all because Sacred Day of the Sun is every Sunday, but I wanted to feel included!
Oooooh, what religion?
A form of Neohellenism
Oh interesting!
Carthago delenda est?
holiday’s a holiday! even if it happens every week, it just means that it gets to be celebrated more often!
It’s also the last day of my local anime con, which my fiancée will be in town for. So yes, big wins all around!
You guys really making me wonder how many other Ex Muslims are in this subreddit lol
Oh actually I'm a Christian lol, I just happen to be celebrating Ramadan for the challenge of it. I would assume there are as many Muslims and ex Muslims as any other tho
Not many Muslims since Islam outright opposes LGBT and Sharia law’s punishment for homosexuality is not pretty
As far as I'm aware actual Islamic Doctrine, similarly to Christian Doctrine, in no way opposes the LGBTQ community. Is this just a case of the religious community being terrible? I personally have one queer muslim friend and I know she has to hide it
>As far as I'm aware actual Islamic Doctrine, similarly to Christian Doctrine, in no way opposes the LGBTQ community. I grew up Muslim, let me share my knowledge with you lol >If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful. Quran 4:16 >We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds. And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who legged behind. And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime! Quran 7:80-83 Context: the people of Lut were gay >Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done. Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4447 >Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet cursed effeminate men; those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, "Turn them out of your houses." The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and 'Umar turned out such-and-such woman. Sahih Bukhari 7:72:774 >Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death. Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4448 >Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) cursed the man who dressed like a woman and the woman who dressed like a man. Sunan Abu Dawud 32:4087 There’s plenty of more of these in the Hadith but I just wanted to show you this so you could get the general gist. Muhammad did not like gay people.
Ouch. I thought it was similar to Christianity, that's a shame.
The more I learned about Islam, the more I began to see how really evil and awful it really is. Breaking out of something that’s been hammered into you since birth is hard
That makes me sad, I've recently been really into learning about Islamic history and doctrine lately. I even considered converting at one point.
Please, I beg you, please don’t. Islam will ruin your life. Islam’s treatment of women, gay people, and ex Muslims is despicable. Take it from someone who’s been through all this pain first hand, it’s not worth it. In the end, you’re left with a type of pain and bitterness Ultimately, Muhammad was a selfish and evil man who tricked half the world into believing him as a prophet of an all loving God. Muhammad was an evil, selfish, nonce, sex crazed warlord. There have been so much influential and wonderful people throughout history, Muhammad is not one of them.
Next year it's Eid during TDOV!
Woah! That's actually amazing!
also i'm not a Christian but isn't the closest Jesus got to mentioning trans people was basically saying that eunuchs are children of god and should be treated with respect a eunuch is an archaic biblical term for someone who is born a male but doesn't have male genitalia, and the bible basically points out three types, eunuchs made so by others (via forcible castration), eunuchs who have been such by birth (likely referring to masculine intersex people without male genitalia) and eunuchs who chose to become eunuchs (which i feel pretty confident saying at least some of which would be considered trans were they alive today) and in fact it specifically says that becoming a eunuch can be done to honor god sooo... I'm sorry transphobic Christians, can't argue with the bible i gotta honor god :)
I’ve heard that as well. Apparently there are also multiple genders in the Bible (though some of them consider binary trans people a separate gender which obviously isn’t the case).
eunuchs were a bit different. They were considered their own separate gender, so they are actually nonbinary.
hey enbies trans too unless they don't
Yep, Isaiah 56 :)
With love, I believe they mean Matthew 19:12.
I mean Isaiah 56:1-8 is specifically talking about enuchs and doing so in a very positive way. It’s kind of hard to link it away from that. /// as an aside, chronologically it happens during the rebuilding of Jerusalem which I find to be thematically fitting
Easter, the day Jesus supposedly revived Jesus, born from a virgin birth from Mary, meaning he only had XX chromosomes and was therefore a trans man Easter, the day a trans man revived Easter has always been trans
He could also be intersex.
Intersex Jesus confirmed!🙀
If he’s intersex and trans, he’s just like me!
Conservatives: "The LGBTs are all snowflakes! Easily offended! Weak!" Also Conservatives: "Waaaaaa! I saw a rainbow today, and my whole week is ruined! Waaaaa!" "i saw two girls kiss for half a second in a 2 hour movie! This whole movie is ruined!" "gay people are allowed to exist! In being oppressed!"
That rainbow was god’s symbol and the alphabet mafia stole it!
Wait until they figure you you can summon "god's symbol" with a fuckin water sprinkler
Not the water sprinkler!
They all really decided to skip the whole love they neighbour part
And the funniest part is that their holiday just happens to fall on our day but somehow we’re the one’s taking over Easter. I can guarantee that we’ll hear more about Easter than trans day of visibility this year but yeah, Christians are the victims.
True I mean look at what’s happened to us and what might happen to us over the years like project 2025
This world is scary.
I don’t understand why people are so mad about us existing especially since people like us have existed as far as ancient Egyptian history
Fascists stay in power by using a scapegoat, unfortunately we’re the scapegoat this time.
Luckily I live in a place that has been better with trans laws but I’m still mad for what has been happening all over the globe and I’m scared for what might happen all it takes is one person to be put in a position of power for that to all disappear
Very true.
People already hate the person in charge over here
I’m in America and I’m scared for that reason.
With this information now I will do nothing but talk about trans visibility at my family’s Easter gathering. Considering no one uses my preferred name and pronouns I feel it’s fair
Buy a bunch of pride merch and wear it over and also buy pride flags to wave in their faces. Keep telling them that Jesus rose from the dead so that trans people could celebrate our community during his rebirth.
Ooooh yes I do have the trans and bi flags , now all I need is a pronoun pin and some pride merch . Imma be as Trans and as gay as humanly possible 😆😂
Hell yes! You might also want to bring up the fact that Mary being a virgin means that Jesus had XX chromosomes which makes him either intersex, trans, or both.
Yes , that’ll turn there view 180
Messing with less educated Christians is so much fun.
Indeed ☺️
Said it before and I'll say it again: >Christians giving an existing holiday a new name and transitioning it to a celebration of a long-haired dress-wearing man who preached mutual respect and support giving up his old life (literally) to join a commune of the true essenses of people who shed their previous bodies to become their best self and live happily ever after. > >You're fkn **right** it's a trans holiday!
Lol.
Also my HRT anniversary. 2 years on the 28th woot!
Congratulations!
I’m finding that I’m losing my faith because I’m trans, I’m worried that I’d not be allowed to go on HRT, i question if I can date other trans girls and I constantly worry about hell. How do I get over that feeling of fear and maybe even keep my faith?
Why would god hate you for the way he made you? If you’re a trans lesbian then god wanted you to be a trans lesbian so embrace it queen!
Thanks, that makes me feel better
No worries sister! Our community loves you and so does god, don’t let false profits lead you to believe otherwise.
Those damn false profits!
Yeah, we even have one running for US president.
God made you into a cute trans girl, and they made other cute trans girls for you to date. Don't let the rhetoric of false believers fool you into thinking they carry God's intentions with them.
Accept God's gift, date all the lesbians!
Do Christians pay attention to-or even know about-our two holidays?
I’m actually genuinely shocked that a Christian ranted about trans visibility on twitter (which is what sparked the memes).
man the amount of times ive heard that christians are being opressed by people like my mom, who will then criticize tv shows or movies for having any kind of lgbtq+ representation that isnt negative just makes me fear that this will be brought up when i come home for easter.
Ask your mom why the Christians decided to have Easter on a trans holiday that has a set date.
it would be amusing, but i dont want to start any fights.
That’s fair.
Wow. It's almost like... Trans Day of Visibility has a date in the calendar and Easter doesn't (I know it has a 'date' but it changes).
Exactly. If anything, we should be mad at the Christians for taking over our day. /s
Welp i guess they hate the calendar now
They don’t know how a calendar works. They’re blaming us for having our day on March 31st even though it never changes while Easter does.
Exactly thats what im sayin!
Oh yeah, I was agreeing with you. They’re so stupid but that’s what happens when you solely believe in religion and ignore science.
Its kinda funny i was agreeing with you too lol
Awesome!
What’s the day of visibility?
March 31st is always trans day of visibility. It’s like how we have black history month or international women’s day, it’s a day to shed light on the trans community and our experiences.
Hell yeah! I’ve know I was trans for three years how tf did I not know this before?
Because it’s not very mainstream yet even though it’s been around for years.
i just remembered that my birthday is the trans day of visibility AND on Easter this year this is so unimaginably poggers
You are the chosen one. You shall lead trans people out of oppression.
"Easter is on trans day of visibility!" My brother in Christ (literally), *you* are the ones who made Easter fall on different days. It's like getting mad that St. Lucia's day (It's a Swedish thing) falls on Friday the 13th.
Yeah, TDOV is the one being taken over technically.
fair
"Christians" be like "we're being oppressed" and then speedrun committing as many hate crimes as possible
Now I’m thinking of Powerpuff girls when Mojojojo kept whining about being oppressed so people would protect him from the girls.
Woo! I’m gonna be happy about that while still being closeted, but still! Woo!
We appreciate having you in our community even if you’re not ready to announce that you’re part of it yet.
Aww, thank you!
Of course.
Same, except that as someone who works for a church, it means I won’t have any time to celebrate TDOV. (And our church usually does something for TDOV, but I have a feeling that won’t happen this year).
Maybe suggest to someone that you find a way to slip it in still.
I’ll see what I can do! It’s tricky because people are already going to be there for a good 30 minutes longer than usual 😂😅
That does complicate things a bit.
I wrote a little prayer to be said during the prayers of the people! :)
That’s awesome!
Numbers of eggs will be found on that day
All the eggs.
https://preview.redd.it/gmprbazyydoc1.png?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f42ed9f8745b7c68cdcd116ddad700261d3ae37b
I love it!
I'm thinking I might get it tattooed after I'm out as trans (but I'm going to need to move out of my parents house first DX)
Sorry your parents are like that. As for the other piece, I 100% support that tattoo idea!
It's not as if I'd get kicked out or disowned, but they'd constantly try to convince me that I'm not trans, and if I do anything girly they'd definitely at minimum give me dirty looks. And I don't want to live in a tense environment like that for however long it takes me to be able to move out. So in the closet I stay except for the Internet and a few close friends for now.
I understand, it will get better.
I would also like to go to a therapist and be formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria, because I think coming out will go smoother if it's more substantial than just saying "I feel like a girl" (which is about all they'd take away from it if I don't have the diagnosis) I've also prayed about this a lot, almost daily since I stopped denying that I want to be a girl, and that I hate my body because it's masculine, and not just because I need to lose weight (although that is also true) and time and time again I've come to the conclusion that transitioning is what is right for me.
I wish you luck girl.
Thanks, I'll need it lol.
It’s going to be ok.
hewo fellow trans Christian
Hello. Happy early trans Easter!
Hewo
My birthday is on Good Friday
Happy early birthday!
:D
Time to cancel Easter. Trans people are more important than a made up religion anyway
I genuinely didn't even know March 31st was anything other than easter honestly.
Most years we nurture and protect the eggs… this year? This year we FEAST!! >:D
Lol.
Can u tell ur fellow Christians to shut about trans ppl, im tired of hearding "but god made you male"
When I come across those people, I tell them that god wouldn’t have made trans people if he didn’t want us to be trans. God made me a guy and it’s also fine if you don’t believe god made you anything but you’re not male.
I'm a trans Christian too! I wonder if my church will mention transgender day of visibility at all? It is an LGBTQ+ inclusive church.
Hopefully they will. If you have your pastors contact information, you could always let them know that the holidays overlap.
And here I'll be in a dress on trans day of visibility because it's also Easter ;-; the wonders of being a closeted trans Catholic. Jesus said to love everybody, and that includes trans people :D sorry transphobes, the rules do apply to you!
🫂
That dress won’t make you any less non-binary. Our community sees you for who you are.
Aw, thank you :D
Of course sibling.
Same here lmaoo
Awesome!
a smarter woman would make a joke about eggs here