I should start this article by saying that I am in no way religious, or possess any sort of faith in non existent imaginary supreme beings or gods if you like, just as I don't believe in the Easter bunny, father Christmas, or the tooth fairy. I thought it was about time we examined in a clear headed, and logical way where some of the holidays we celebrate today originate.
Just like Christmas, Easter is a thoroughly pagan festival, and like many of the so called Christian holidays it has been placed over a traditional pagan observance By the original Christians, to force the poor happy pagans to toe the line and join in the mind control and social constrictions that is Christianity, which if you look at it is the worlds original nutty cult.
If this was done today there would be concerned parents rescuing their offspring from the Christians, rather like they rescue them today from the Moonies or other so called cults. But I digress.
Easter is originally the name of pagan vernal equinox festival Eastre. Eastre being the pagan dawn goddess known variously as Eostre, Ishtar, Semeramis, and Astarte.
So It is nothing more than the celebration of spring and rebirth. The ancient people realising that their lives were pretty much ruled by the sun, and needing some kind of indication when it was a good time to grow food, or when it was going to get colder, warmer, or the days were going to get shorter, or longer, developed a surprisingly accurate astronomical calendar.The Vernal Equinox being the date near March 21 in the northern hemisphere when night and day are nearly the same length, and the Sun crosses the celestial equator.
The trappings of the modern Easter, and its associated days are all pagan in origin. Lent is not found in the Bible as a Christian holiday. It is rather borrowed from the 40 days of mourning for Tammuz, the lover/ husband/son of Astarte. Pagan people used rabbits and "Easter" eggs as fertility symbols to celebrate the forces of spring, and that such forces were usually manifested in popular goddess images.
I think that in today's modern scientific age we should celebrate Easter for what it is, the end of the cold winter and the beginning of a new year of growth , we now know why the sun moves around the sky, and why the seasons change, so just as we don't need the mysticism of a pagan goddess, we certainly don't need any god or Jesus iconography.
It's time the world grew up and left all the childish worshiping of non existent supreme beings with the others we leave in childhood. It would be a lot happier and safer for it.
Just like Christmas, Easter is a thoroughly pagan festival, and like many of the so called Christian holidays it has been placed over a traditional pagan observance By the original Christians, to force the poor happy pagans to toe the line and join in the mind control and social constrictions that is Christianity, which if you look at it is the worlds original nutty cult.
If this was done today there would be concerned parents rescuing their offspring from the Christians, rather like they rescue them today from the Moonies or other so called cults. But I digress.
Easter is originally the name of pagan vernal equinox festival Eastre. Eastre being the pagan dawn goddess known variously as Eostre, Ishtar, Semeramis, and Astarte.
So It is nothing more than the celebration of spring and rebirth. The ancient people realising that their lives were pretty much ruled by the sun, and needing some kind of indication when it was a good time to grow food, or when it was going to get colder, warmer, or the days were going to get shorter, or longer, developed a surprisingly accurate astronomical calendar.The Vernal Equinox being the date near March 21 in the northern hemisphere when night and day are nearly the same length, and the Sun crosses the celestial equator.
The trappings of the modern Easter, and its associated days are all pagan in origin. Lent is not found in the Bible as a Christian holiday. It is rather borrowed from the 40 days of mourning for Tammuz, the lover/ husband/son of Astarte. Pagan people used rabbits and "Easter" eggs as fertility symbols to celebrate the forces of spring, and that such forces were usually manifested in popular goddess images.
I think that in today's modern scientific age we should celebrate Easter for what it is, the end of the cold winter and the beginning of a new year of growth , we now know why the sun moves around the sky, and why the seasons change, so just as we don't need the mysticism of a pagan goddess, we certainly don't need any god or Jesus iconography.
It's time the world grew up and left all the childish worshiping of non existent supreme beings with the others we leave in childhood. It would be a lot happier and safer for it.
