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The Pagan Origin Of Easter

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posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 06:34 AM
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Easter is a day that is honered by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.

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The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "Easter."

"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.

In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham.

Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."

After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.

The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."

Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.

Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.

Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.

That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.

Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.

Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.

Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.

She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.

She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.

This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."

Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.

The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.

Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.

The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.

Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.

Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.

The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.

She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.

During this time, no meat was to be eaten.

Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshipped.

They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.

Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.

It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.

Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.

By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.

The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.

You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.


www.lasttrumpetministries.org...

For all you "easter bunny" folks, perhaps the truth about the vilness of the antichrist holiday called "easter" will be an awakening.

Search out the truth of how satan has twisted history to trick you into ignoring the commandments of God. easter is PAGAN and has been for 5000 years.....

more links...

www.albatrus.org...

www.christiananswers.net...





[edit on 13-3-2010 by heliosprime]



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 06:49 AM
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Well, if you're going to remove everything from Christianity that has either a basis elsewhere or an 'coincidental analogue' with another (pagan) religion, you're not going to have much left.

No chocolate for you this Eostur-monaþ!



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:01 AM
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Originally posted by Merriman Weir
Well, if you're going to remove everything from Christianity that has either a basis elsewhere or an 'coincidental analogue' with another (pagan) religion, you're not going to have much left.

No chocolate for you this Eostur-monaþ!


Perhasp the "little left" will be the actual worship of God as he tells man thru his commandments.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:10 AM
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Originally posted by heliosprime

Originally posted by Merriman Weir
Well, if you're going to remove everything from Christianity that has either a basis elsewhere or an 'coincidental analogue' with another (pagan) religion, you're not going to have much left.

No chocolate for you this Eostur-monaþ!


Perhasp the "little left" will be the actual worship of God as he tells man thru his commandments.


Which commandments are they? The Jewish decalogue?



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:29 AM
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After the 2nd Jewish rebellion the Romans outlawed lunar calendars. Jews were hated by the Romans so anything that seemed Jewish was suspect. Many of the remaining Jews fled the Roman empire.

This meant that there was an additional hazard to being a Christian if you continued to celebrate Christ's death and resurrection the traditional way. Christians were subject to sporadic persecution anyway, so to be identified with the Jews was to be avoided.

At this time, Christians distanced themselves even further from Judaism. Pentecost, Succoth, as well as the weekly Sabbath fell into disuse.

A Solar calendar date was adopted that happened to coincide with Pagan holidays. Was this wrong? Christians didn't believe that the Jewish
Festivals were necessary for salvation so would it really matter when they celebrated?



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:36 AM
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Where's the conspiracy?


This is purely a discussion about disgusting Christian dogma. There is no discussion about conspiracy to be found here. As usual, you've tried to dress up your proselytization by using the old chestnut "Devil vs you conspiracy".

FAIL.

Parallex.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:49 AM
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In Celtic England, what we know as Easter was a festival time when the birds returned for the approaching Summer. Painting of eggs, bird watching, etc, were among some of the activities during this time.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 08:00 AM
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Originally posted by Tayesin
In Celtic England, what we know as Easter was a festival time when the birds returned for the approaching Summer. Painting of eggs, bird watching, etc, were among some of the activities during this time.


Celtic England? Don't let the Welsh, Scots and Irish hear that! Can't have England having any kind of Celtic history or legacy as it will deprive the nationalists and the Irish/Scots Americans something and someone to rail at!



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 08:05 AM
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Easter does not have "pagan origin", any ATHEIST historian will tell you that. What happened was - the new religion, Christianity, naturally incorporated elements of old, pagan vulgar tradition, in order to better pass the message of God to people. So, the actual Easter has pure Christian origin, but in some areas the celebrations include some of the local folk elements, traditions.

Very simple.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 08:28 AM
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Egotistical christian's.

Is this what Jesus taught? I really doubt it.

Got the corner on the market for religion? I really doubt it.

Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?

I really doubt it.

Its really sad to see what peter and paul did to their masters teachings.

You do realize that other religions BEFORE yours were every bit a devout as you seem to be. Yes?

"Oh, thats before Jesus came. He did away with that. They didn't know any better".


I try to defend christians on here (obviously, most of my friends are such). Your brand is why you get bashed so often.


I guess its just the devil making me write this. Yes?



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 08:49 AM
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Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?


Hey, be fair...

Not all Christian denominations believe in this 144000 number mystical significance.

Mainly Jehovah's Witnesses who do.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 09:56 AM
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Ooops!! It's late at night here and I couldn't think of what the entire Isles were called in Ancient times. Wouldn't want to offend anyone, especially my older relatives from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

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"pagan vulgar tradition", and "pure Christian Origin" are both misnomers laden heavy with Value Judgements.

I think you will find the origins of Easter do date back far beyond the arrival of Jesus and that all of the things done during these festivals were usurped by this New Religion because Conversion at the Sword only worked on a percentage of the populations. Hence the fledgling church under Rome combined these things in order to attempt to influence those who still followed the old ways at these times.

How can anyone be so sure that Jesus died around Easter? Are they as sure of that as they are that he was born on December 25th? Another date also usurped by the Roman church in ancient times.

Edited to correct dyslexic fingers mistakes.



[edit on 13-3-2010 by Tayesin]



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 10:42 AM
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Oh those cute old testament fundamentalists are funny guys.



These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian. You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.


Fear the mighty God, for he will eat your brains and balls if you go look for colored eggs in the garden. He gets very jealous of bunny rabbits, and can't allow you to have a party for a fictional bunny rabbit who brings eggs. You are only allowed to have parties in honor of the great fictional God.

Seriously, you can't prove the existence of God (or Satan), yet you condemn people who chose to have a party which is connected with another fictional being? Are you serious??

Newsflash for you, the scriptures were written from 2000BC up until around 200AD. Guess what, a lot of it is based on "pagan myths". If you remove all those parts, you are left with random fear mongering statements by God...and what's even more hilarious, those statements were written by MAN. They were written as a means to control the sheep, the citizens...you know, people like you, who follow without THINKING and who are blind enough to do/say stuff simply based on faith.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are intellectual slave holders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, 'I'm willing Lord, I'll do whatever you want me to do.' Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 10:50 AM
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Originally posted by jjjtir
reply to post by felonius
 



Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?


Hey, be fair...

Not all Christian denominations believe in this 144000 number mystical significance.

Mainly Jehovah's Witnesses who do.


Fair enough. Personally, I dont think that JC would put a number on "His" kids allowed to return home.



posted on Mar, 14 2010 @ 05:50 AM
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Originally posted by Tayesin
reply to post by Merriman Weir
 

Ooops!! It's late at night here and I couldn't think of what the entire Isles were called in Ancient times. Wouldn't want to offend anyone, especially my older relatives from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.


Let them be offended if they're some messed-up Nationalists who subscribe to some romantic revival of the 18th and 19th Centuries and want to rewrite history and pretend that England wasn't at one time as 'celtic' (whatever that's supposed to mean*) as Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall then they deserve to be offended.


*Tolkien has a good take on this and describes the concept of 'celtic' as being like a magic bag in which you can put anything in and take anything out.



posted on Mar, 15 2010 @ 03:01 PM
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Originally posted by felonius

Originally posted by jjjtir
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Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?


Hey, be fair...

Not all Christian denominations believe in this 144000 number mystical significance.

Mainly Jehovah's Witnesses who do.


Fair enough. Personally, I dont think that JC would put a number on "His" kids allowed to return home.
The only time 144,000 people are mentioned is in Revelation, and it speaks of the remnant of the 12 Jewish tribes who will convert and spread the message of Christ in the End times.

There is nowhere in the Bible where it states 144,000 people will be raptured.



posted on Mar, 15 2010 @ 03:19 PM
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OK, let's get this straight... The OP is both right, and yet oh so wrong... Yes, Easter has very pagan origins, just not ANY of the ones they listed...

Easter is the Christian Rip-off of Ēostre. But if you are going to call those Christian Holidays that are taken from Pagan roots Satan's Work, then you are also going to lose Christmas, which is blatantly ripped off from the Pagan festival of Yule, and stop dressing up the kiddies on Halloween, which is a blatant (and also disrespectful) rip-off of Samhain, the Pagan day of the dead...



posted on Mar, 17 2010 @ 05:42 PM
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Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
OK, let's get this straight... The OP is both right, and yet oh so wrong... Yes, Easter has very pagan origins, just not ANY of the ones they listed...

Easter is the Christian Rip-off of Ēostre. But if you are going to call those Christian Holidays that are taken from Pagan roots Satan's Work, then you are also going to lose Christmas, which is blatantly ripped off from the Pagan festival of Yule, and stop dressing up the kiddies on Halloween, which is a blatant (and also disrespectful) rip-off of Samhain, the Pagan day of the dead...


Thanks for the strait up history lesson. But I think this cute old testament fundamentalists is one funny guy, and a evil dancing in disguise. After all I think heliosprime will allow the killing if innocent people because they don't agree with his dogma. He sounds like a guy from the Taliban doesn't he.




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