The interesting link in that article is of ‘Alla’ (’Allah’) to Tammuz, the pagan god (of those people God judged) whose birthday we celebrate on December 25, calling it “Christmas” even though it’s far likelier He was born in September.
And I won’t even mention the Babylonian goddess of fertility, Ishtar, whose holiday we celebrate, calling it “Easter” and convincing children to search for eggs and eat chocolate bunnies, ostensibly in celebration of the Lord’s resurrection.
Israel isn’t the only chosen people to lose the plot completely....
It begins here.....Luke 1:5 In the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Unfortunately our lazy and un-educated church leaders today would rather have us go down the road of Babylonian pagan worship than do some real instruction in what the Word of God has taught us.
Leastwise that's what the white folks do ~ the Middle Easterners may do something else.
It's like the Spring festival where everybody eats eggs taken from the recently arrived birds from the South. What a relief from dried fish and dried reindeer meat.
Later on, when the great herds return to their winter quarters, Herb Woman will appear bringing you every sort of seed and fruit (that the subarctic regions can provide).
Your women will focus on the four household goddesses ~ who have names so similar to those of the Dravidian people it's uncanny.
Jesus wasn't inserted into the old time religion in that region until the 1500s, so he's a somewhat late arrival to those folks ~
wow -- in which calendar? Do you know that the Gregorian and Julian calendars are pretty much later than Tammuz?
and did you know that we don't celebrate Tammuz' birth but rather Christ's?
I don't know what you celebrate, but Christians for 2000 years have celebrated CHRIST's birth
Furthermore, Tammuz's birth was not celebrated by the Sumerians, rather they celebrated him as the change of seasons -- so Dec 21 would be the death of Tammuz with the winter solstice
don't believe all the rot your pastors teach!
This is so incredibly stupid it's impossible. Easter is only used in English and modern German. And you know that English is a relatively new language, right?
This betrays the fact that many look at things from an English language view and forget that in other languages, Easter is not called "Easter". In Latin languages it is Pasqua etc. derived from Passover while in Slavic languages it is Wielkanoc (Great Night) etc.
The Latin term for Easter is Pascha showing straight away that the statement is wrong
One should also point out that In Romantic languages, the word for Easter is based on Pesach, the Hebrew word for Passover, which Jesus was celebrating at the time of his execution. And the Romantic language speakers have been celebrating Easter far longer than the English.
only in the German/English languages is it called Ostern or Easter
Even in Danish and Norwegian it is called påske , in Swedish påsk, in Estonian it is lihavõtted in Finnish pääsiäinen in Dutch it is called Pasen -- so your entire post is utterly wrong as you're just looking at it from an English perspective
You do realise that Modern English only dates from the 1600s and prior to that it was Latin then French that was the official language, right? Hence even the English celebrated Pascha
You do realise that High German was the liturgical language only post the 1500s and prior to that it was Latin, right? hence the Germans celebrated Pascha too