"Hello everyone and welcome to the newest episode of Animalia Ambassadoria." said Miles, looking a little roughed up. "While not everyone celebrates Easter the same way, or at all, we're going to be recapping all the major events here in Animalia and elsewhere."
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Easter in Dino City was only slightly different than Easter in Lyre/Animalia. The biggest/easiest difference was how the eggs were compared to others. In Dino City's case, the eggs were more like dinosaur eggs, but what was most surprising of this was that they were different shapes as well as sizes, depending on the species of dinosaur who lay them.
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"Easter" wasn't really celebrated on Heiya Island, but the Songkran festival more than made up for it. The Quasi-Raccoon Cuties again did coverage of it, and especially the water fight. Part of its notoriety, both on the internet and elsewhere, was the fact that the female Animalians, who were already notorious for wearing very little, wore still less for the water festival. Fortunately, this didn't cause too much controversy on the internet or elsewhere, and those who did cause a fuss were generally ignored.
What was probably the most and least surprising was the use of squirt guns alongside other means of throwing water, though there weren't any crazy, over-the-top ones like railgun-like squirt guns, or squirt sniper rifles.
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Probably what was causing the biggest stir, with regards to the internet, was an ongoing debate on whether or not Animalians who become part of the clergy have to adhere to the same celibacy laws that humans did. This was due in no small part to a group of catholic nuns who had become Cat Animalians to survive the collapse of their Coventry, only for them to start noticing male cats, so to speak.
Of course, this was all that was needed for conspiracy theorists, fake news creators, and sensationalists to create all kinds of stories involving 'lust and religion'. Probably what was the most popular was the fake news that Animalia was becoming the center of a so-called 'lust cult', but Animalia didn't really worry about that or other similar stories because, as one rational mind said on the internet, "They're just so obsessed with their stories that they can't tell the difference between their left and right hands."
Fortunately, Miles was able to get one of the Pope's Cardinals on Skype to help explain some things and said Cardinal also double majored in college in both history and religion, which some simplified as 'history of religion', which he called 'an unrefined, yet accurate description'.
"So how did celibacy in Christianity get started?" asked Miles.
"It was another of Pope Gregory the Great's reforms." answered the Cardinal. "This was more to consolidate power than condemn lust, since Pope Gregory didn't want church property to be inherited by the sons of priests or bishops."
However, he did say something that surprised everyone.
"This doesn't mean that those sensationalists have roots in history." (Stewie: Say WHAAAAT?!?!)
"What?" asked Miles, in surprise.
"It was around the fourth century, A.D., that a movement called Gnostic Christianity began. It's inspired by the Greek word gnosis, which means 'knowledge' or 'enlightenment'. The movement's main focus was on what counted as 'sin' and what didn't, which brought them into repeated conflict with Orthodox. One subgroup, called the Carpocrates movement actively celebrated lust as a sacrament, but the only records of this subgroup were written by authors who were militantly anti-gnostic, so we don't know if this is fact or negative propaganda."
"I see..." said Miles, not really seeing it. The people who were watching were equally confused.
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"... And that's all the time we have for today." said Miles, as the last amusing clip of mess-ups during Easter was played. "See you all next time and be sure to tune in for our Special Episode of Animalia Summer 2022: When Worlds Collide. Until next time, see ya."