Christianity QA

Question:

I believe it was pope innocent the 1st that a day of the martyrs and saints to be put on the Wiccan holidays to aid in the conversion to the Christian religion.

There was no Wicca back then

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Easter is based on Passover. The Last Supper was a Sedar. But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused children?

Maybe some of the traditions were once Pagan, but Easter is definitly judeo-xian

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More than likely it has become a fusion of traditions over the millennia.  Seasonal events are obviously a key to triggering rites or celebrations in many varying cultures, old and new.  I’m not trying to argue for a key source of this particular holiday, but trying to imply it may be celebrated for more than one reason or just simply for the celebration of the coming of spring.  The multiple fertility motifs abound in this holiday and Passover does not seem to be the proper manifestation of a celebration of fertility as it was actually a great time of death given it was the time of Makath be-Khoroth.  Anyway, my position is that it is pointless to try to say who was first, it just implies a disqualification and disaccreditation of other’s belief systems – many of which may have developed in parallel.  There were more than likely such rites at this time of year before recorded history, predating Judaic scripture.  But that was not my point.  By giving such a flippant ‘bunny’ response on my side, I just tried to lighten the interpretation of this Spring rite.  Sorry if you took offense.  I’ll give you that the ‘lamb’ thing is Judaic, but of course they did tend to eat the paschal lamb which is not very much in the theme of celebrating spring either.

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But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused

children? Rabbits and eggs suggest fertility. The Easter Egg Hunt is a fine tradition. Paint pictures of your blessings for others on your eggs and have your group of friends find them. — Guardian’s of the Steamy SouthWest! http://www.goodnet.com/~felixxx/Magifaq.html

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(mention of Easter) But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused children?

How cute, I love that! If you have a tale, or book, or what ever, PLEASE post it. (Thinking that such a story would make a dandy children’s book.) —  Gregory Paul Gadow  Web : http://www.drizzle.com/~techbear/  Gay : http://www.greatgig.com/emerald_city/

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Yes, it is most certainly a Pagan holiday.  It was adapted from Ostara ( which sounds like Easter, anyway ), which is the day of the Spring Equinox.  It’s been proven, and some Christians still refuse to admit it.  I told that to someone and they got mad at me- yelling and cursing and all that.  Well, perhaps it is best to leave that subject in my mind around people like that.  Ostara was a fun holiday for me!  How ’bout you? ( or did you celebrate it? ).  I actually celebrated both.  I come from a Catholic family.  VERY Catholic.

Hm, you have to make a distinction between the *practices and traditions* of a holiday, and the *purpose and history* of the holiday. The events which lead up to Easter took place at Passover (in most European and Mediterranian languages, the word for this observance is derived from the Hebrew word pesakh) While many pagan traditions have been added over the centuries, I don’t think that would make it a ‘pagan holiday.’ The Orthodox church still figures the date of Easter as related to the timing of Passover. —  Gregory Paul Gadow  Web : http://www.drizzle.com/~techbear/  Gay : http://www.greatgig.com/emerald_city/

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Yes, it is most certainly a Pagan holiday.  It was adapted from Ostara ( which sounds like Easter, anyway ), which is the day of the Spring Equinox.  It’s been proven, and some Christians still refuse to admit it.  I told that to someone and they got mad at me- yelling and cursing and all that.  Well, perhaps it is best to leave that subject in my mind around people like that.  Ostara was a fun holiday for me!  How ’bout you? ( or did you celebrate it? ).  I actually celebrated both.  I come from a Catholic family.  VERY Catholic.

Hm, you have to make a distinction between the *practices and traditions* of a holiday, and the *purpose and history* of the holiday. The events which lead up to Easter took place at Passover (in most European and Mediterranian languages, the word for this observance is derived from the Hebrew word pesakh) While many pagan traditions have been added over the centuries, I don’t think that would make it a ‘pagan holiday.’ The Orthodox church still figures the date of Easter as related to the timing of Passover. Would this make Easter a Jewish holiday? —  Gregory Paul Gadow  Web : http://www.drizzle.com/~techbear/  Gay : http://www.greatgig.com/emerald_city/

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I ran across that reference doing an ‘Easter’ search, it’s: http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/o/ostara.html There’s not much about it, but the overall site is very useful in doing basic mythology research.

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Easter is based on Passover. The Last Supper was a Sedar. But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused children? Maybe some of the traditions were once Pagan, but Easter is definitly judeo-xian

Come on – what do you mean by Easter?  Even the NAME isn’t christian – it comes from the Saxon Goddess Eostre or Ostara AKA Astarte.  How many other Xtian holidays are lunar based? Easter is definitely yet another attempt by the christian church to colonize a pagan festival.  And one of their least successful, IMHO. Brook

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Easter is based on Passover. The Last Supper was a Sedar. But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused children? Maybe some of the traditions were once Pagan, but Easter is definitly judeo-xian Come on – what do you mean by Easter?  Even the NAME isn’t christian – it comes from the Saxon Goddess Eostre or Ostara AKA Astarte.  How many other Xtian holidays are lunar based? Easter is definitely yet another attempt by the christian church to colonize a pagan festival.  And one of their least successful, IMHO. Brook

All the same, as Easter is the most important festival of the christian calendar (as it celebrates the day when Jesus supposedly ‘gave the goods’ that he was who he said he was), I’d think it was more than a patchwork job over the pagan festival.  Just because there’s something sneaky about it dosen’t mean they made the whole thing up.

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  Did you know that Easter is Pagan?  This Pagan Holiday was adopted by the Chrisitians to represent the rebirth of man and the resurrection of Chirst.   SO!  Since Easter is Pagan I will be posting the long version of the King James Bible soon. Easter is based on Passover. The Last Supper was a Sedar.

But isn’t the bunny thing based on Ostara changing her pet bird into a rabbit and then giving the resulting eggs to the amused children?

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  Did you know that Easter is Pagan?  This Pagan Holiday was adopted by the Chrisitians to represent the rebirth of man and the resurrection of Chirst.     SO!  Since Easter is Pagan I will be posting the long version of the King James Bible soon.

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  Did you know that Easter is Pagan?  This Pagan Holiday was adopted by the Chrisitians to represent the rebirth of man and the resurrection of Chirst.     SO!  Since Easter is Pagan I will be posting the long version of the King James Bible soon.

Easter is based on Passover. The Last Supper was a Sedar.

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Yes, it is most certainly a Pagan holiday.  It was adapted from Ostara ( which sounds like Easter, anyway ), which is the day of the Spring Equinox.  It’s been proven, and some Christians still refuse to admit it.  I told that to someone and they got mad at me- yelling and cursing and all that.  Well, perhaps it is best to leave that subject in my mind around people like that.  Ostara was a fun holiday for me!  How ’bout you? ( or did you celebrate it? ).  I actually celebrated both.  I come from a Catholic family.  VERY Catholic.

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