I thought this article was concise, historically-accurate, and to the point
I had to cut it down quite a bit to fit into FR's excerpt rules. It would pay you to click the link and read the whole article!
To all:
There are aspects of Easter that have snuck in and crept in that have absolutely nothing to do with Christ's resurection or the bible.
One problem I believe is that the incident kicks off during the holiday of Eostre, a saxon goddess of fertility and festivity. That's where we get the word Easter pretty much.
It was all a coincidence.
I told my son that the Easter Bunny was probably jesus' pet. That usually works.
Did the link appear on your screens? And did my excerpt also appear? I seem to a problem viewing it.
Because rabbits.
Oh for the love of Jesus, HE IS RISEN!
The very name is almost a literal phonetic translation of the original Babylonian, celebrated on the same date.
The Bride of Christ should divorce herself from the pagan religions!
We'd be better off celebrating on Passover!
The answer to the question is yes. I don’t care what historian or monk said what. Easter is pagan, Passover is not. The fertility of rabbits in spring matches the fertility rites of pagans. Instead of celebrating a pagan holiday, read the Bible instead. Celebrate Passover if you want to please Him.
Thank you for this good article countering the “Easter is pagan related” arguments.
Happy Easter to all of you.
I’ve often wondered if the children searching for goodies on Easter was taken from the two times children search at passover.
First, the home is cleaned of all unleavened bread, flour, etc. at the end of this cleaning, Jewish children search for some pieces of bread their parents have hidden to complete
The task. Supposedly only be candlelight (we don’t go that far).
Then you might know that part of the ceremonial matzah in the Passover Seder meal “disappears” during the meal but is needed for the Seder to go on at the end. (An adult has hidden it). The children all go searching for it, and whoever finds it is paid a few
Dollars by the Seder leader in order to use it to complete
The Seder.
Since both holidays have that children searching thing, I wondered if Easter borrowed that fun tradition.
Happy Resurrection Day, FReople.
If it borrows from anything, it would be Pesach.
Christ is Risen!!!!
The real, Orthodox Christian Easter is Pascha, and there is nothing pagan about it whatsoever!!!!
Pascha is the fulfillment of the Israelite Pesach. We read the following Old Testament lesson on Holy Saturday:
https://oca.org/readings/daily/2017/04/15/6
And we read the last line as “It is the Lord’s Pascha”!!!!
Orthodox Pascha is preceded by the Great Fast (including fasting, prayer, almsgiving, and repentance/Confession) and Holy Week. It culminates with the reception of Holy Communion on Pascha morning, without which one has not really celebrated Pascha at all.
In the Serbian tradition, we followed the Divine Liturgy with a feast featuring spit-roasted lamb and pork, as well as real, traditionally-dyed chicken eggs. I ate my first bit of chocolate only some time after returning home. It is possible to have a real celebration of Pascha with no chocolate at all!
The commercialized bunny-rabbits and chocolate-eggs “Easter” is a fake, post-modern holiday that does not even rise to the level of paganism. It gets worse and worse with every passing year. Leave it to the fake-news media to use the bogus “Easter” to bash Christianity as usual!
Indeed He is Risen!!!!
He is indeed risen!
Only a Liberal can redefine a successful conquest as a failure somehow.
bump for later and bookmarked
It should be noted that, from a strictly logical perspective, if the resurrection is true then controversies like this one are meaningless.