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igotthisguitar · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: Easter: Christian or Pagan?

http://www.truthbeknown.com/easter.htm

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

The obvious answer is that Easter originated as a Pagan celebration and the Christian faith adopted it also.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:32 am Post subject:

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I would word my response differently than CentralCali, but along the same line.

The idea that spring and rebirth are associated should not be all that shocking to anyone.

Koreans are certainly not Irish, but over the last 14 years I have seen a considerable growth in interest among Koreans about both Halloween and St. Patrick's Day. If one group borrows something from another group, what's the worry?

The real question, IGTG, is what is your motivation for starting this thread?

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

igotthisguitar · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:24 am Post subject:

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Didn't you say on another thread that you were always frank and candid? Perhaps you are confused about the difference between the meanings of 'always' and 'rarely'.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:03 am Post subject:

Nowhere Man · Joined: 08 Feb 2004

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Christian Easter was strategically placed to overshadow the older pagan celebration.

The same goes for Christmas. Covers a winter solstice celebration. Someone did calcualtions and had Jesus's birthday in April, I believe.

I thought this was pretty common knowledge.

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

the phoenicians had a celebration spelled something like aestarte long before jesus was in the manger.

in the phoenician version, the yearly god died and was resurrected while the permanent god stood watch.

pretty much same name, same event but from the people just over the hill. must be a coincidence. Wink

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Christmas was adopted by the christians to correspond with pagan festivals at that time. Easter is tied to the Jewish passover. So it's not like Christmas where the Catholic church just conjured Dec 25 into existence.

Passover's timing is rather suspicious. It's supposed to be, of course, when the angel of death didn't kill jewish babies but happily killed innocent non-jewish babies. Remember this is a god of love and peace. Anyway, most cultures have spring rebirth festivals. So it would be pretty easy to get European pagans to adopt the Christian easter. Like Christmas, they're already used to a party.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

All rituals are pagan.

Even the virgin birth, the great flood and lamb sacrifice are pagan.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

I'm just glad that God sent his only Easter bunny to lay a chocolate egg which saved us from working on a Friday.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

Religions don't just start from scratch. They build on what people already have. Christianity was influenced by Greek philosophy, according to many, and, of course, Judaism. Many things found in Buddhist talks can be found in the Hindu book called the Bhagavad Gita.
What's the surprise there?