The Pagan Origins of Easter

[mrveggieman]

http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract1.html

[shrewsbury]

when two cultures, two religions, come under one leader, you end up with a birth of new holidays, based on parts and pieces of both religions and cultures.

[JustAlex]

Christianity stole pretty much everything.

Christmas is one of the most Pagan things ever invented...

The bible is pretty much plagiarized with many other stories told by other cultures and yes even the pagans....

[gsj68]

nimrod,cush and bunnies,my type of story

[Wickabee]

Don't we do this, like every year?
Wouldn't that make this a recent Easter tradition? Part of the celebration?

[JustAlex]

Consider the Flood story....

It's actually plagiarized from the epic of Gilgamesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth

Consider the very story of Jesus...

It mirrors many other deities from the past including Horus and Hercules.

Now, I'm going to be fair....I believe Jesus REALLY did live, I even believe that he called himself the "son of god" and that he was crucified.

But many of his miracles are a classic "big fish" story where the story gets bigger and bigger as it's told over the generations.

As Christianity grew in power, they desperately NEEDED to secure that power, so they discredited all other religions, they stole the winter solstice holiday and made it about the birth of christ, they literally did everything possible to make their religion the most powerful in the world.

All these centuries later we KNOW this to be truth....and yet Christianity is still very big, because even when given evidence against what you hold to be true, people find it very difficult to give up their convictions.

[centrehice]

The battle/battles at Armageddon were already fought in Jewish history & the old testatment as well, and borrowed for use in revelation for no apparent reason. It's repetitive syndrome run amok.

You will find that nearly everything in the new testament has been stolen from 4 places:

Greeks
Pagans
old testament
Convenient recorded non-biblical Jewish history that may be applied when required

[Wickabee]

Consider the Flood story....

It's actually plagiarized from the epic of Gilgamesh.

This is true. In fact, it can be said all the great flood stores derived from this one. The Americas, Africa, Asia...in most areas of the world, there is flood story that cleans up or destroys an entire world, with many similarities to Gilgamesh. It's almost as if at some point, when humanity was all relatively close to each other, there was a flood, everything changed, and people spread out.

Does that mean the story of Noah is true? No, but it does mean calling it plagiarism is unnecessarily harsh. If you're going to call it plagiarism, you have to call most people after the Sumerians, and pretty much everyone after the Greeks, plagiarists. It's too strong a word to just throw around like some meaningless epithet.

[shrewsbury]

but we are basing this on the earliest records we have found, question is, what have we not found?

[Wickabee]

It still points to one common source.