If u think God didn't rise up again and IS still alive why do u think there is easter???

Question

What does easter mean to you.









Plz don't answer if you CAN'T answer decently.

Answer 1

Easter still celebrated because a lot of people believe in the Resurrection of a 1st century Judean revolutionary named Jesus. The Roman Catholic church in an attempt to ease the forced conversion of pagans (poly-theists) from conquered lands to xtians (mono-theists) converted many pagan holiday to xtian holidays. Thus, Ostara, a re-birth/fertility celebration became Easter. The winter solstice and yuletide became Xmas. We see a lot of this forced conversion in history, most by the miltary and laws of Rome. This is so evident in the history of the church that even the word "parish" comes from a Roman miltary term. So, to use the Easter celebration, a forcable changed pagan holiday as a proof for the begining event of xtianity, the resurrection, is an ex post facto error.

Answer 2

Easter or rather the feast of Oestra (the original roman festival) is a celebration of fertility hence the bunny and the eggs. I know I'm gonna get bad press for this but hey, I'm gonna go for it - it's yet another pagan feast day that has been hijacked by the christians. Yuletide was hijacked and made into Christmas to appease the pagans. No disrespect intended, this is history.

Answer 3

The name Easter comes from the ancient Anglo Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre or Ostara, in whose honor an annual spring festival was held. Some of Christian Easter customs have come from this and other pre-Christian spring festivals.

The goddess Eostre, or Ostara, is the Anglo Saxon equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar and the Phoenician Astarte. The Wiccan website, Temple of the Dark Moon explains:

This festival is named after the Anglo-Saxon Goddess Eostre, also known in Old German as Ostara. Little is known about this Goddess except that Her festival was celebrated at the Spring Equinox, and became Easter. She was a Goddess of Fertility and was connected with hares and eggs. She may have been a Goddess of the Dawn. She may also be connected with the Greek Eos and the Roman Aurora, both Dawn Goddesses, and with the Babylonian Ishtar and Phoenician Astarte, both who are Love Goddesses.

The ceremony and symbols of Easter existed centuries before Jesus lived.

In addition, this goddess has a less than pure reputation. Her worship featured fertility rites, and immoral sexual acts permeated her celebrations! Collier's Encyclopedia explains:

The Ishtar festivals were symbolical of Ishtar as the goddess of love or generation. As the daughter of sin, the moon god, she was the Mother Goddess who presided over child birth; and women, in her honor, sacrificed their virginity on the feast day or became temple prostitutes, their earnings being a source of revenue for the temple priests. (Vol 9, p. 622)

It is no wonder the symbolism pervading the celebration of Easter is oriented toward sex and reproduction. Consider the symbolism of the lily. Easter celebrants go to church services and delight in the great numbers of lilies decorating their altar, never realizing that this flower was widely regarded from ancient times as a symbol of sex and reproduction. Unger's Bible Dictionary explains:

Characteristically Canaanite, the lily symbolizes grace and sex appeal and the serpent fecundity.

The custom of easter bunnies may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring gravitated to Easter. ...The Easter rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility. (p.227)

The egg also played a preeminent role in the pagan religions from ancient times. In more primitive cultures It was believed that the very goddess from whom we get our modern Easter celebrations came from a giant egg. In his book, Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop records a most amazing account:

From Egypt these sacred eggs can be distinctly traced to the banks of the Euphrates. The classic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians; and thus its tale is told by Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned keeper of the Palatine Library at Rome, in the time of Augustus, who was skilled in all the wisdom of his native country: 'An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, hatched it, and out came Venus, who after wards was called the Syrian Goddess. (p. 109)

In many parts of the world, for centuries, hot cross buns have also been an Easter staple. The buns are baked with the symbol of a cross on them, and today many believe the mark represents the Christian cross. Buns such as these were used in worship centuries before Christianity. They were offerings to the queen of heaven, Ishtar, or Ashtoreth, goddess of spring and fertility. The cross actually originated as a "T", representing Tammuz, the brother of Ishtar.

Answer 4

Easter time is really a ancient pagan (Saxon) celebration of the return of spring and a celebration to the goddess Eastre (hence the name). Where did you think we get the rabbits and egg parts from (symbols of rebirth and fertility).

Answer 5

People of all religions celebrate holidays. Just because they celebrate a holiday does not mean that I believe in that particular religion. Since I am not a Christian, Easter has no meaning to me.

Answer 6

Your question is reasonable. HOwever, just because the holiday exists does not mean that it really did happen. I do happen to believe that Jesus is raised and living in me. But, your logic is fallable.

The better thing to look at is "If it did not really happen, then why did all those people in Rome die because they said it did happen. Those that died saying that it did were the age to have been able to see it. If I made up something like that, I certainly would not let them put me in a giant frying pan and fry the skin off my body as several were documented to have done. They did also put them in oil and slowly increase the temp until they died, or they were beheaded, tossed in the arena, skinned and then drawn and quartered. It was a campaign to get these people, who claimed to see it happen, to stop saying that it happened.

The question then becomes, why would they hold to such a lie given that they KNEW what they were going through?

Answer 7

Easter is basically the Pagan holiday of Ostara, the celebration of rejuvenated natural fertility; hence, eggs and rabbits...

Answer 8

Easter is a time for painting funky colors on eggs and eating candy!

Screw the pink monkey crap!

WHERE IS MY CANDY!

Answer 9

easter and a lot of other holidays and saints all basically mean the same thing to me. they are all a reminder of all of the compromises and "deals" the church made with other people to spread their religion.

Answer 10

I think there is easter because some people believe in th resurrection. Of course, that doesn't mean that it is true.