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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Absurd.
I'm sure that phrase is all very cool in some way that You understand but do you think you might try it again for the rest of us?
Technically, the first Sunday after the Passover is the Day of First Fruits.
Paul says that Jesus was our passover slain for us and that He is the first fruits of them that slept.
Not a coincidence.
:)
Icyc Bockpec!
Amen, bro.
My favorite Christian holiday.
Mine, too. I always say Happy Resurrection Day!
Have a blessed one!
Happy Easter!
In my opinion its the most important of Christian holidays.
I view it as a great thing. I look forward to the day when someone saying “happy abortion” means only celebration of the love of Christ and the memory of what it means now is long forgotten.
Sigh.
Two things happen at Easter like clockwork:
CNN has special saying Jesus didn’t exist and was gay
People post this completely debunked urban myth about the word “Easter”
He is risen indeed!!!!
I'll spend the day worshipping the risen Christ.
If you had to guess, what do you suppose it would mean?
If it makes you feel any better, the phrase “Happy Easter” (or anything like it) is confined to Germanic languages like English.
In the Romance languages, phrases like “Buona Pasqua” is said (which more accurately alludes to the origin of His Sacrifice, which was begun at the Passover meal, which was always a prefigurement of His Sacrifice anyway).
Nothing is lost in the English equivalent, as the origin of the word “Easter” (as an equivalent of “Pasqua”) is not as described here (from “Ishtar”), rather “The English term, according to the Ven. Bede (De temporum ratione, I, v), relates to Eôstre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring, which deity, however, is otherwise unknown, even in the Edda (Simrock, Mythol., 362); Anglo-Saxon, eaester, eaestron; Old High German, ôstra, ôstrara, ôstrarün; German, Ostern. April was called easter-monadh.” (http://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/easter)
We see (from that quote) that the etymology of the word is not from “Ishtar” rather from a Germanic goddess of unknown origin, who was associated with the coming of the season of spring. Since His Resurrection occurred around that time (of Spring) the early German Christians simply appropriated that term, already in use, to signify His Resurrection. The pagan implications, in other words, were ignored and eventually supplanted by the Christian.
Even if one takes umbrage at this fact, and still wishes to claim “Easter is pagan in origin”, such an objector must then address the fact that literally millions of people (those who speak the Romance languages) don’t use any such word at all, and again, in fact use a word that is etymologically linked to “Passover”. Hardly a pagan connection.
Sorry, not playing. I’m too busy harshing my mellow, man.
Actually, three things.
Someone posts a dismissive reply to this type of thread without offering an un-debunked explanation of where the word "easter" comes form or how an egg-laying bunny has anything to do with Christ's resurrection.
(sigh)
Ah. Much better.
First of all a blessed Feast of the Resurrection to all of my separated Western brethren who uses the papal paschalion to calculate the date. For us Orthodox (and the other Eastern Christian confessions that still uses the Nicene paschalion) today is the Feast of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, popularly called Palm Sunday.
The article is nonsense. The name “Easter” is uses only in countries which speak Germanic languages and derives from the name of the month in which Pascha — the proper name of the Feast of the Resurrection — typically fell, Oestre, yes named for an obscure Germanic goddess, like many current English month names are named for Roman gods or goddesses (or Emperors the pagans voted divine honors). In countries where Greek or Romance languages or Slavic languages are spoken the name for the feast is a variant of Pascha (which incidentally is also the Greek word for Passover, derived from the Hebrew word, which since vowels were inserted in the middle ages has been Pesach — notice, same consonants.)
This is the same sort of rubbish as claims that the observance of Christian worship on the first day of the week is solar paganism because in some Western European languages the name of the day is based on the word for “Sun”. In Greek the first day of the week is Kyriakie (the Lord’s Day), in Russian it is Voshkesenye (Resurrection). I’m surprised we don’t get this strain of nonsense claiming that Good Friday is a pagan festival commemorating Freya, since the name Friday derives from Freya.
So, to all you Western Christians in America and other English speaking countries: Happy Easter!
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