And secondly, they were highly worshipped and celebrated during the winter solstice. As according to Jer. 10:1-5; Is. 40:19-20; 41:7 and 44:9-20, the pagans would go out into the forest and do one of two things. Either they chopped down a tree and carved a female deity out of it, or they would simply bring the tree into the house and decorate it with gold and silver ornaments symbolizing the sun and the moon while nailing a stand on the bottom so it would not totter or tip over.
Out of this practice came many other variations of these pagan festivals until the Roman Catholic Church adopted the Asherah worship and named it EASTER around 155 A.D. According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, Easter was named after a pagan goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre, the goddess of the dawn. A great controversy arose between the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church in 325 A.D. on whether to celebrate Easter on Sundays or on whatever day the Jewish Passover fell upon. Unfortunately, the Greeks lost a lot of followers and the Catholics contended that keeping Easter on Sundays would stimulate the practices of both the Christian world and the pagan worshippers. Note that the word CATHOLIC means "universal" or "one world" in thought, concept and practice. Hence, since the original practice of Asherah worship we now have in our time the celebration of Easter, a counterfeit holiday to the true Christian festival of the Passover which was instituted in the Bible and completed in the New Testament when Christ died on the cross as our Passover Lamb.
...For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Steven, you can't take this stuff seriously. It is laughable, and you are doing tremendous harm to yourself by believing this kind of nonsense.
We are to believe, according to your as yet uncredited source, that a bunch of Romans decided to use an Anglo-Saxon godess to worship in the year 155 AD? Do you have any sense of how preposterous this is?
It would be like the Americans deciding to follow some backwater god found in Guam or something. The Romans had fine gods of their own, thank you, and they didn't need to import them from some craggy imperial backwater.
According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, Easter was named after a pagan goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre, the goddess of the dawn.
Your sources, and your, use of this in this manner is to willingly mislead people. That's a violation of the commandments.
Is there among us any Non Catholic who will recognize this deceit for what it is?
SD