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  1. InTheLight

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    I believe the Catholic Church (or the early church) deliberately set Christmas at the time of the winter solstice to usurp pagan celebrations.

    I like your church's approach to Easter egg hunts.

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    We are in agreement. Sadly, our family errs on the side of the fable, participating and permitting their children to participate in a "fun time," yet attends church services on Easter Sunday, where the practice is not acceptable or endorsed.
     
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  3. rsr

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    I wondered how long it would be before Alexander Hislop reared his ugly head. Can anyone cite real evidence that Easter equals Ishtar?
     
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  4. T Alan

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    Eostre is an easier verifiable beginning for the "Easter" celebration.


    http://www.manygods.org.uk/articles/essays/Eostre.shtml
     
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  5. T Alan

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    "The word Easter has been connected with a pagan goddess
    The Venerable Bede, an English monk writing in Latin during the 8th century, claimed that the word Easter came from the name of a goddess called Eostre, whose festival was celebrated by pagan Anglo Saxons at the time of the vernal equinox. "

    All it requires is one be willing to accept a fact; they've been/are practicing a celebration with false god origins. Here it is from another source. There are so many solid sources it's about like Atheism, It requires more faith to keep thinking it than to accept the truth.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...rds_from_lent_to_maundy_to_easter_itself.html
     
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  6. T Alan

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    Here's more for anyone who seeks truth. You could find them yourselves by simply looking with an open mind. But I put them all here for ease.

    https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/bien-well/fra-eng/vocabulaire-vocabulary/mot-word-eng.html
     
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    Even if Bede is correct (and he's the only source from antiquity), there is no proof of a connection with Ishtar, which is what your source claimed (following Hislop.)
     
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  8. T Alan

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    Okay, Hislop isn't a credible source for you. Forget Hislop and Ishtar. Go with any of the other sources for the origin of "Easter". I posted the earlier for other reasons than any Hislop and Ishtar mention.
     
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  9. T Alan

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    Here is another credible source that gives Easter and the goddess of Spring. ( also mentions Ishtar) Also the "Sunrise Services" so popular in many Western Churches (more worship form from false god)

    http://www.shalom-peace.com/easter.html
     
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    Of course it mentions Ishtar because it's a compendium of old tales with no credibility. To think that Christians have sunrise services to celebrate a pagan goddess rather than to recall how the disciples learned of the resurrection is absurd.
     
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  11. T Alan

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    " By the way, if you read correctly the account describing when Y'shua (Jesus) rose from the dead, you will then understand that the resurrection took place while it was yet dark (night-time). So, why do those who represent Christianity insist on remembering The Resurrection after the sun rises?"
    from the link
    http://www.shalom-peace.com/easter.html
     
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  12. T Alan

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    As for the "sun rise service" many do it because they are simply goats being led by the fad. I've done it before (ignorantly). But not again. It serves no purpose.

    But Back to the name "Easter".
     
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    "In most European languages, the word for Easter comes from the Hebrew Pesach.We can see the connection easily in French Pâques, Italian Pasqua, Spanish Pascua, Dutch Pasen, Danish Påske or Russian Paskha, for example. All of these words refer to the Jewish feast of Passover, which was the setting for the Easter events recounted in the Christian Gospels.

    Why is it, then, that the English word for this feast is so different? Where does the word Easter come from?

    The most popular theory is reflected in the entry for Easter in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary: the Old English word eastre came "apparently from Eostre, a goddess associated with spring."

    "Easter" does not mean "Resurrection". Google "Easter Image" and see what you get. What has this to do with the Resurrection of Christ? The Perfect Passover Lamb not bunny:BangHead:






    (source of quote from)
    https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/bien-well/fra-eng/vocabulaire-vocabulary/mot-word-eng.html
     
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    Some people make things more complicated than what they need to be.
     
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    [sarcasm]It was a conspiracy among the King James translators to slip paganism into Protestantism.[/sarcasm]
     
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  17. T Alan

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    "In most European languages, the word for Easter comes from the Hebrew Pesach.We can see the connection easily in French Pâques, Italian Pasqua, Spanish Pascua, Dutch Pasen, Danish Påske or Russian Paskha, for example. All of these words refer to the Jewish feast of Passover, which was the setting for the Easter events recounted in the Christian Gospels.

    Why is it, then, that the English word for this feast is so different? Where does the word Easter come from?

    The most popular theory is reflected in the entry for Easter in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary: the Old English word eastre came "apparently from Eostre, a goddess associated with spring."

    "Easter" does not mean "Resurrection". Google "Easter Image" and see what you get. What has this to do with the Resurrection of Christ? The Perfect Passover Lamb not bunny
     
    #57 T Alan, Jan 24, 2015
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