why dont christains realise that Easter in not a christian festival...?

Question

it is from a pagan religion called mithraism....
http://amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Book.asp?SelLang=en&ID=59

Answer 1

I'm a Christian who learned of this fact about 4 years ago. I also stopped observing Easter 4 years ago. Once I read the Bible and studied the verses, I had a choice to make. Obey God and go "against the grain" with the world, or blow it off as unimportant and "go with the flow".

It's hard for some people to let go of their traditions. Especially when it seems so cute, fun and innocent. Not to mention that it's no fun being the oddball in the family who doesn't celebrate Easter. Sometimes it's more comfortable to remain blissfully unaware...

Answer 2

Cathy said earlier: "Actually the theological reason for Easter being when it is has to do with the timing of the Jewish Passover not to replace a pagan holiday."
Many use this as an excuse. It isn't a good one. The Jewish Passover is a yearly celebration of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. So, nowadays Christians have nothing to do with it.

True Christians don't celebrate Easter. The Jehovah's Witnesses are famous for not celebrating holidays because of their pagan origins.

The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians."

The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility."

In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, . . . as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . . . Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now."

"The sons are picking up sticks of wood, and the fathers are lighting the fire, and the wives are kneading flour dough in order to make sacrificial cakes to the ‘queen of the heavens’; and there is a pouring out of drink offerings to other gods for the purpose of offending me." -- Jeremiah 7:18.


For more information go to:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_11.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1999/3/15/article_01.htm

Answer 3

Actually the theological reason for Easter being when it is has to do with the timing of the Jewish Passover not to replace a pagan holiday. It was the changed because of changes that were made going from a lunar to a solar calander, this is also how the feast of announciation was fixed and then Christmas fixed 9 months from that date (not from a pagan winter festival) due to the concept of the timing of a perfect Christian death. You could say this with anything our any holiday religious or not since with the hundreds of pantheons of Gods from the different regions of paganism every day of the year honors some pagan god. Your amazing facts site isn;t very amazing or very factual. But I doubt you would listen anyway.

PS you got the wrong Goddess Mithra is not even mentioned in the "article" you present as associated with Easter this person associates it with Ishtar and then even he has the wron goddess for trying to claim an association with Easter. It is Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring (whose name is related to the modern English "Easter"). Many try to link that back to Ishtar and they may be etymologically connected, though there is no linguistically-meaningful evidence to support such a link.

Answer 4

Who says it fairly is a Christian pageant? i think of it fairly is diverse issues to diverse human beings. For non secular Christians confident, it fairly is a Christian Commemoration and party. yet for something individuals in those international places that have Easter holidays it has merely exchange into our custom. even though its origins: pagan or non secular, it fairly is significant and substantial to athiests too. In lots as a relaxing relatives element to do with the youngsters. I merely choose that each thing did no longer close down. we could continuously make it one greater effective day long, and then all of the retailers would have a minimum of two days greater effective off each (by potential of activity-share), or decide on which days they like to open over the era. I additionally choose that retailers does no longer commence merchandising easter products the day after New Years.

Answer 5

The actual remembrance of the Crucifixion of Jesus and His 'rising form the dead' is dated by the Jewish Passover . If you're talking about all the bunnies and eggs, etc--- that is all from the pagan traditions. Just like "Christmas" trees, etc.

None of these things you are talking about means anything. You either very humbly go deeper and try to understand and take the real message of Jesus' (and other saintly person's) teachings, or you don't. If you don't, you will find plenty to criticize in all religions and traditions. If you do, you may find your life deeply changed for the better.
Its easy to take potshots at all the silly hypocrisies brought about by the followers of various religions-- It takes much more work to try to get to the root of the spiritual message and change your heart.

Answer 6

it isn't that the resurrection of Christ or Easter was first a pagan holiday, it is more like they just happen to coincide with each other and interestingly they both have to do with rebirth. But society was based on a lunar calendar back in the date til the Romans change it to a solar calendar.

Answer 7

It's not a pagan festival it's a celebration of the Resurrection of Christ. The pagan stuff as added later. Like so many Christian celebrations it has been hijacked to try and reduce the meaning so people will not understand the truth.

Mithraism was developed from the prophesies of the Hebrews while in captivity in Persia. The Persians misinterpreted the Hebrews' beliefs and thought it was a god to worship. People who believe Christ is taken from Mithra are not looking at the timelines and evidence.

Answer 8

Christmas has some basis in pagan holidays too but who cares. Easter is to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ so where is the pagan ritual in that? A few eggs do not change the meaning of the holiday for Christians.

Answer 9

Early Church missionaries combined pagan traditions with those of pagan's to make their job easier. The very day of Easter is not a festival, but a commemoration of Christ's resurrection-- this coincides with the Equinox--when day light is equal to darkness.

Answer 10

Blissful Ignorance....

They don't want to be reminded of a whole lot of crap that went down under the guise of their religion, namely the extermination of the Druids first...then a few hundred years later, the witches...

Th reason that Easter - or "Eostre" as it was - moves each year is because it's where the welcoming of spring festival happened - the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox. A very fecund time for the earth - and hence the leftover ritual of decorating and giving eggs as presents as well....

Love and Light,


Jarrah