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The English word Easter comes from “Eostre” or “Eastre”. Eastre is Astarte or Ashtaroth the Queen of Heaven. The Roman Catholic Church has instituted a lot of traditions and pagan customs and the Christians today have followed their lead right into pagaism and false worship of God (YHWH). You cannot find Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the early believers, celebrating pagan customs in the Bible such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc…
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Easter is just another name for Ashteroth "The Queen of Heaven." Easter was not considered a "Christian" festival until the fourth century. Early Christians celebrated Passover on the 14th day of the first month and a study of the dates on which Easter is celebrated will reveal that the celebration of Easter is not observed in accordance with the prescribed time for the observance of Passover.
After much debate, the Nicaean council of 325 A.D. decreed that "Easter" should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox. Why was so much debate necessary if "Easter" was a tradition passed down from the Apostles? The answer is that it was not an Apostolic institution, but, an invention of man! They had to make up some rules.
History records that spring festivals in honor of the pagan fertility goddesses and the events associated with them were celebrated at the same time as "Easter". In the year 399 A.D. the Theodosian Code attempted to remove the pagan connotation from those events and banned their observance.
The pagan festival of Easter originated as the worship of the sun goddess, the Babylonian Queen of Heaven who was later worshipped under many names including Ishtar, Cybele, Idaea Mater (the Great Mother), or Astarte for whom the celebration of Easter is named. Easter is not another name for the Feast of Passover and is not celebrated at the Biblically prescribed time for Passover. This pagan festival was supposedly "Christianized" several hundred years after Christ. -snip-
Understanding how Xianity is merely is a pagan religion is not only achieved by looking at the paganism in Xmess, but is amplified by looking at the sources of the Xian celebration of Easter. Easter is merely one of a multitude of names assigned to pagan fertility cult goddesses. She was celebrated throughout the Middle East, Europe, India, and China with names that include Eastre, Eostre, Eso, Astarte, Ashtaroth, Isis (Egyptian), Aphrodite (Greek), Anahita (Persian), Aurora (Roman), Ostara (Anglo-Saxon), and Ishtar (Babylonian). Easter in all her many names is a vernal equinox fertility cult goddess who is associated with the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere in the spring, and thus, to the spring planting season.
The myth among the German pagans was that their Easter goddess (named Ostara) loved children. She entertained children by magically changing her pet bird into a rabbit. Her rabbit then brought forth brightly colored eggs which Ostara gave to children as gifts. The rabbit, of course, is the animal of choice in these fertility cult myths because the rabbit is so horny and prolifically reproductive.
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