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Happy Resurrection Sunday (Anti-Christian origins of "Easter")
ChristianAnswers.net ^ | 1998 | Paul S. Taylor

Posted on 04/05/2015 6:23:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle

Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia—the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]

Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Easter/Ishtar (Semiramis), the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility—and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.

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To: defconw

I love this picture. Christ disguised as gardener!


61 posted on 04/05/2015 8:10:48 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Happy Easter.)
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To: Texas Eagle; Arthur McGowan
Happy Resurrection SUN-day?????


62 posted on 04/05/2015 8:15:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Happy Easter.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Sun rises on a compass direction.

Son rises on a compass directions.

Oooookayyyyyy. If that works for you.

But getting back to the argument that you changed, are you one of those people who make it a point to say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays?

63 posted on 04/05/2015 8:16:53 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle
we ought to at least acknowledge that the word "easter" has absolutely nothing to so with the resurrection of Christ.

It does now

64 posted on 04/05/2015 8:17:15 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Texas Eagle

“Sorry to harsh everybody’s mellow”

Your post didn’t “harsh” anyone’s mellow. You are one one with the harsh.

Auto correct turned harsh in to harrass.

Any how, Happy Easter.

Jesus can help you with your perpetual state of harsher mellow.

You don’t need to walk by sight and with a spirit of fear.


65 posted on 04/05/2015 8:17:53 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Texas Eagle
I like "Merry Christmas". The word "Holidays" (etymology: Holy Days) does not, however, fill me with indignation.

Presuming you're not a Catholic, aren't you a tad bothered by celebrating

Christ-Mass?


66 posted on 04/05/2015 8:19:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Happy Easter.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Paranoid, nerdy lunacy can be harmless and fun.

Happy Easter!

67 posted on 04/05/2015 8:20:37 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: ifinnegan
Jesus can help you with your perpetual state of harsher mellow.

Amen and thank you.

Hopefully one day I will be as perfect as you.

Now, getting back to the point of my original post, are you one of those people who get bent out of shape because people say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas?

Maybe "bent out of shape" is not the correct phrase. I'll consult auto-correct.

Let me aks it this way, when someone says, "Happy Holidays" to you do you make it a point to respond with, "Merry Christmas"?

68 posted on 04/05/2015 8:22:17 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: SamuraiScot
Paranoid, nerdy lunacy can be harmless and fun.

Where do you people get your psychologist degrees?

Happy Easter!

Happy Resurrection Sunday!

69 posted on 04/05/2015 8:24:30 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

What should we do about...

Sun’s Day
Moon’s Day
Tiu’s Day
Woden’s Day
Thor’s Day
Freya’s Day
and Saturn’s Day

?


70 posted on 04/05/2015 8:25:29 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Texas Eagle

My ‘internet’ pastor was preaching on the subject of the ‘Hadron Collider’ in Sunday school this morning.


71 posted on 04/05/2015 8:26:39 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: kanawa
What should we do about... Sun’s Day Moon’s Day Tiu’s Day Woden’s Day Thor’s Day Freya’s Day and Saturn’s Day

Uhhhhhhhh. Live them?

What do any of them have to do with the honoring the resurrection of Christ?

Or are you of the I-know-I-can't-win-this-argument-so-I'll-change-the-subject school of thought?

72 posted on 04/05/2015 8:27:43 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: silverleaf

“I secretly worship Peeps”

Peepists are full of errors and sinful marshmallow.

Freegards


73 posted on 04/05/2015 8:28:53 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Texas Eagle

Oh, good grief.

When Christians say “Happy Easter” to one another, they’re commemorating one thing & one thing only-—Christ’s resurrection. There’s no confusion about it.

Instead of getting all hung up on word games, shouldn’t we be reflecting on His sacrifice for us?


74 posted on 04/05/2015 8:29:53 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: elcid1970
"Meanwhile, Happy Easter to all as we celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!"

Amen. Happy Easter to all Freepers.

75 posted on 04/05/2015 8:30:54 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I am not sure I have ever seen this one before. I like it.


76 posted on 04/05/2015 8:31:06 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"You'd also have to avoid the name of every single day of the week, since they are ALL named (originally) for Germanic gods and goddesses."

Don't give him any ideas! :O

77 posted on 04/05/2015 8:32:17 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: Ransomed

:)


78 posted on 04/05/2015 8:32:51 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Presuming you're not a Catholic, aren't you a tad bothered by celebrating Christ-Mass?

If you want to start a thread on the pagan origins of Catholocism, by all means, you go right ahead. I've got my hands full with this one.

If you can show me that the word "mass" has pagan origins, then, yes, I might be a tad bothered by it. But at least Christ is acknowledged in there SOMEwhere.

79 posted on 04/05/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle
"Uh-oh. Did I burst your morally relativistic bubble?"

Dude, you need to stop for a moment of self-examination.

You're preaching about the (in your mind)usurpation of Christ's resurrection, but you're doing the same thing you're condemning. You're usurping this holy day to try and beat everyone over the head with your own self-righteousness & imagined moral superiority.

Stop using the occasion of Christ's resurrection to feed your own ego. Shame on you.

80 posted on 04/05/2015 8:38:15 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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