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Disciple4life 04-16-2014 06:15 PM

Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI2CEEXsQro

KeptByTheWord 04-16-2014 07:58 PM

Re: Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
Yup. Don't have time to watch the youtube video, but certainly have looked into the fact that Easter, among other "Christian" holidays has very pagan overtones.

Ferd 04-17-2014 01:49 PM

Re: Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
pagans ate food.

Esaias 04-17-2014 04:00 PM

Re: Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
We had a WONDERFUL Passover.

BTW, when you say 'Easter', if you mean the bunny rabbits laying chocolate eggs, and the insistance on Sunday, then yea, that's pagan.

However, the Easter holyday is not, itself, pagan. Only English speakers have an issue, because in practically all other languages that time is called Passover or some some such variant. (Pascha, Pascuale, Passa, Pesach, etc). Easter comes from the German word for 'rising' (OEstre), which is also where the word EAST comes from, since the sun rises in the east. The term itself had some ancient pagan origins but came to mean simply 'rising'. Thus, when Germans were Christianised, they used the term RISING (Easter) to be the celebration of Christ's RISING from the dead.

I don't know where the bunny rabbits and all the fertility nonsense got added, though.

Interestingly enough, even the Jews aren't immune, they use colored 'Passover eggs' during Passover.

The main problems with Easter are 1. the date is wrong, and 2. the bunnies and fertility nonsense.

FlamingZword 04-17-2014 09:04 PM

Re: Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Esaias (Post 1309019)
I don't know where the bunny rabbits and all the fertility nonsense got added, though.

Babylon, where else.

Praxeas 04-17-2014 11:37 PM

Re: Easter is a Pagan Holiday!!!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1308994)
pagans ate food.

Eating food is Pagan!

:runhills


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