Easter.
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Thread Topic: Easter.
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The true origin of Easter is a pagan holiday celebrating fertility, which is why the Easter Rabbit is a massive symbol.
Not unlike Christmas, Christianity and Catholicism absorbed ancient religions into their own to force assimilation in their conquest for religious domination throughout Europe and the world. -
A hare, or rabbit, was thought to reproduce without losing virginity, like the Virgin Mary. And since rabbits can do superfetation it's easily seen as a fertility symbol. It was also a German folk-lore: a giant hare leaving goody baskets for children the night before Easter. So when the Germans came to America, they brought the tradition.
When Christianity spread from Judea to the Roman Emperor, it is seen in history that Christians refused to participate in any pagan celbrations, which paganism was common at that time. Legalised in the 4th century, it was also made the state religion by the emperor. Makes sense since the Vatican City is located in that area.
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Uh, yea... sorry Sisi, but no. Christianity did absorb Pagan traditions. The Catholic Mass and Communion are good examples of this. Also the story of Jesus may very well be derived from the story of the pagan god Osiris.
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Easter is not a Christian name. It is Chaldean (Babylonian) in origin - the name Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven. The name Astarte, as found on the Assyrian monuments by the noted archeologist Layard, was the name Ishtar. The worship of Bel and Astarte was introduced very early into Britain, along with the Druids, "the priests of the groves," the high places where the pagans worshipped the idols of Baal. In the Almanac of the 1800's, May 1st is called Beltane, from the pagan god, Bel. The titles Bel and Molech both belong to the same god.
We must remember that Semiramis (also known as Ishtar) of Babylon, the wife of Nimrod and mother of Tammuz, was the same goddess worshiped throughout the world under various names, such as the Egyptian fertility god, Artemis, the Roman goddess of licentiousness, Venus, the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, and the Ephesian, many-breasted fertility god, Diana, as well as many others.
The (Easter) bunny, the oldest pagan symbol of fertility - Semiramis - has absolutely NOTHING to do with the resurrection of Christ.
Nor does the Sunrise service. Jesus was resurrected while it was still DARK!
"And early came Mary Magdalene, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre." John 20:1
Sunrise services are for the worship of the Pagan Sun god - ONLY! In addition, Jesus was NOT resurrected on Sunday, the first day of the week.
One mythological legend says that sometime after Semiramis died, a huge egg dropped from heaven. Out of the egg came a re-incarnated Semiramis, now a goddess. The Babylonian Talmud refers to her as Ishtar, or Easter.
The forty days of Lent symbolize one day for each year of Tammuz' life. This period of time is celebrated in the "Christian" church by giving up something to mourn the death - of Tammuz, the son of the pagan goddess Semiramis!
Ezekiel 8:13,14 tells us what God thinks about any festival that recognizes Tammuz:
"The Lord said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they (the Israelites) do.
Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz."
As late as the 19th century, in Great Britain, at Beltan (or the 1st of May) a number of men and women assembled at an ancient Druidical circle of stones near Crieff, to participate in an ancient worship feast to Baal.
The festival of Pasch, or the Passover, was very early observed by many professing Christians, in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Christ, although it cannot be traced back as far as the Apostles. But Pasch was observed by Christians a full month before the festival of Ishtar was celebrated by the Pagans. In addition, the festival of Ishtar (Easter) now observed in churches is far different from the original festival of Pasch.
The amalgamation of the Christian Pasch, as observed in Britain by the Christians, and the Pagan Easter enforced by Rome, occurred by violence and bloodshed. But at last, the Festival of the Anglo-Saxon or Chaldean goddess, Ishtar, came to supersede that which had been held in honor of Christ.
"The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Easter Sunday figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do today. The buns,' known by the identical name, were used in the worship of the queen of heaven, the goddess Ishtar, as early as the days of Cecrops, the founder of Athens, that is, 1500 years BEFORE the Christian era. One species of sacred bread which used to be offered to the gods was called Boun.'" Hislop, Two Babylons, pg 107.
"The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven. Jeremiah 7:18
The hot cross buns are not now offered, but eaten instead, on the festival of Easter (Astarte - Ishtar).
"The origin of the Pasch (Passover) eggs is just as clear. The ancient Druids bore an egg as the sacred emblem of their order. In the mysteries of Bacchus, as celebrated in Athens, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. The hindu fables celebrate their mundane egg as of a golden color. In China, even as late as the 19th century, dyed or painted eggs were used during sacred festivals.
"In ancient times, eggs were used in the religious rites of the Egyptians and the Greeks, and were hung up for mystic purposes in their temples. . . The classic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians.
"The occult meaning of the mystic egg of Astarte had reference to the ark during the time of the flood, in which the whole human race was shut up, as the chick is enclosed in the egg before it is hatched. And of course, the egg also refers to birth, or creation.
"Though the deified queen, whom Astarte represented, had no actual existence till some centuries after the flood, yet through the doctrine of metampsychosis, which was firmly established in Babylon, it was easy for her worshippers to be made to believe that, in a previous incarnation, she had lived in the Antediluvian world and passed safely through the waters of the flood. The Roman Catholic Church then adopted this mystic egg of Astarte, and consecrated it as a symbol of Christ's resurrection." Ibid pg 109,110.
The Bible clearly tells us what God considers the memorial of Christ's death and resurrection. It is NOT the pagan celebration of Easter, in honor of the pagan god, Ishtar. It is BAPTISM:
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
"For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection:
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed (rendered inoperative), that henceforth we should not be slaves of sin." Romans 6:3-6
The memorial for Christ's death and resurrection is BAPTISM - - - NOT Easter!
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Sorry it took me so long to respond. I had to do some research first...
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Pagan and Christianity are seperate religions. Pagans worship many different gods, Christians worship 1. In every religion there is the creator/ savior, however you'd like to spin it. You can compare Jesus to Osiris because they are both saviors to their religion, but by no means does that mean he was arrived from there.
Christinaity is not related to paganism by the fact it had its roots in Judaism. And Judaism could have easily copied cultures from earlier civilizations like the Greek/ Egyptians to which Pagans are closely related. -
So let me get this straight?
Christianity comes from Judaism, which could have easily copied cultures from earlier civilizations like the ones similar to Paganism, and yet you are denying that Christian holidays and practices are derivative of Paganism? You are keying in on one thing, redefining the logic behind it, and then saying that we should cast it away? Of course we should cast away your definition of it. You Don't even know the connection being made beyond the point of it being a savior. I pointed out where Jesus wasn't born on December 24th. And where the Pagan savior was. And yet Christianity brags the birth of Jesus on December 24th. I can get into the core beliefs of the religion itself it you want. Like how Osiris was born of a virgin. And how that version of the religion alone is 4,000 years older than Christianity.
I can also get into the Adam and Eve story. And how it's nearly 8,000 years old. And derived from Paganism. You are being a closed minded bigot. Carri simply posted some factual information and you had to come here and deny it with your church based crap.
Do your research. ACTUAL RESEARCH. -
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Easter is about celebrating Jesus' rising from the dead. He was once dead and now he is risen. Allelujah! Allelujah!
Wow, I love being a Catholic! [: -
Obviously Purple is here to make the other Christian/Catholics look bad.
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What does Jesus mean to a Catholic? You already have other perfect beings on earth, like the Pope and saints, right?
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solitary_atheist NewbieJudaism actually has roots in Zorostrianism, especially in the notion of a single god, and in that there is a devil.
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^ What these guys said
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