whos ready? ya know i am!!!
Easter
whos ready? ya know i am!!!
Ahh yes, yet another pagan fertility/sun festival from our "friends" the Babylonians, (nothing whatsoever to do with Christ) same with lent, or as the Bible calls it "weeping for Tammuz".
Ahh yes, another "pegan festival" refrence. somehow I don't think the Babylonians were running around looking for eggs hidden my a bunny.Originally Posted by metalman
agreed !Ahh yes, another "pegan festival" refrence. somehow I don't think the Babylonians were running around looking for eggs hidden my a bunny.
Perhaps you should study into it.
You might be surprised what the Babylonians did. Eggs were often considered "sacred" objects and the rabbit (and certain other critters) were revered for their fertility. Its no accident that even the name Easter is derived from Astarte, Ishtar and subsequently Oester and the other "equivalents".
Anyway you slice it bunnys, eggs, and candy have nothing to do with Christ, and neither does Easter/Astarte/Ishtar/Oester.
Last edited by metalman; 03-08-2006 at 07:20 PM.
why should I do research when I have you? so let me get this straight. the mom's and dad's would hide these "sacred objects" and say the fertile bunny god hid them from the children and then watch them try and find them. intresting.
I never said bunny's and candy had anything to do the resurection of Christ. and so what if you take an ancient language and spell it out in english and it happens to look like Easter. All that means is whoever came up with that would kick ass at Babylonian Scrabble.Anyway you slice it bunnys, eggs, and candy have nothing to do with Christ, and neither does Easter/Astarte/Ishtar/Oester.
A mocking response is not what I'd consider serious.
And if youre at all smart you will do your own research when it comes to religion. Sadly, the concept of letting others "do the research" is far too common and a primary reason why so many people are retarded when it comes to anything pertaining to the Bible or history.
Language is an evolving thing. Words are derived from other languages and from earlier words. If thats over your head so be it.
And....I never said Babylonian kids hunted eggs. I said the Easter tradition comes from Pagan/Babylonian tradition and I stand by that. Any historian or religious history buff worth a crap knows this.
oops didn't ya get the memo
Don't worry Easter Bunny...I am ready for ya to hide your eggs round my house lol or apartment. lol
eh, easter, who cares lol, only thing i care about is the "rising of christ" fuck that fury creature
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Even the roman catholic church acknowleges the pagan origin of easter....
The word Easter, which comes from the Anglo-Saxon, is a term derived from the pagan goddess of the dawn. - The Catholic Encyclopedia, Revised and Updated, Copyright 1987, Robert C. Broderick, Editor, Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Another thing, anyone who has studied the Bible knows that the crucifixion and resurrection happen during the Jewish festival of the Passover, which began on the 14th of Nisan in the Jewish calendar. For millennia the Jews have observed this festival week of Passover & Feast of Unleaven Bread beginning on the 14th of Nisan. Since Jesus died on the 14th of Nisan, then the resurrection happened on the 16th of Nisan.
If your birthday is on the 16th the actual day varies year to year, its not on Tuesday every single year just because you may have been born on Tuesday.
Why then if its truly a commemoration of the ressurection does Easter always fall on sunday???
More on the origins of Easter....
The English word Easter and the German Ostern come from a common origin (Eostur, Eastur, Ostara, Ostar), which to the Norsemen meant the season of the rising (growing) sun, the season of new birth. The word was used by our ancestors to designate the Feast of New Life in the spring. The same root is found in the name for the place where the sun rises (East, Ost). The word Easter, then, originally meant the celebration of the spring sun, which had its birth in the East and brought new life upon earth. This symbolism was transferred to the supernatural meaning of our Easter, to the new life of the Risen Christ, the eternal and uncreated Light. Based on a passage in the writings of Saint Bede the Venerable (735), the term Easter has often been explained as the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess (Eostre), though no such goddess is known in the mythologies of any Germanic tribe. Modern research has made it quite clear that Saint Bede erroneously interpreted the name of the season as that of a goddess.
Francis X. Weiser, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs
The word 'Easter' is only mentioned once in the KJV in Acts 12:4.
In the original Manuscripts which was written in greek for the New Testament. The word is 'pascha' - the passover.
The word pascha is written 28 other times in the New Testament and evertime it is translated into 'Passover'
There is no way you can translate pascha into easter. Easter should not even be in the bible.
Easter comes from perverted pagan fertility rituals, But some traditions of easter were allowed by christians when a large number pagans converted to christanity.
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Indeed! Youre quite correct. The catholic church has done a great job at infusing Jesus into pagan nonsense then calling it christianity. Easter is only one example.
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