247: Is Easter Pagan? Pagan Astarte or the Lord Jesus Christ? [Podcast]

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Dr. Taylor Marshall

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Is Easter Pagan? Catholicism or the pagan goddess Astarte. Dr. Taylor Marshall explains the historical origin of the Christian feast of the Resurrection, how it was calculated, how it relates to the Spring Equinox and how it became named “Easter” as relates to the pagan goddess Astarte, which also means “rise” and “east” and “Dayspring” and “spring equinox.” Do you find benefit from my videos and podcasts? If so, please help me make more by becoming a Patron via Patreon (and I’ll send you some signed books as a Thank You. Click here to become a Patron. Watch the Youtube video by clicking here. Or listen to the audio mp3 here: The Taylor Marshall Show Podcast is now also available on Spotify: Play “Taylor Marshall Show” inside Spotify. Check out Patreon Patron Benefits! All these video discussions are free. Do you want to recommend a show, get signed books, and show support? Here’s how: click on Patreon Patron link: Become a Patron of this Podcast: I am hoping to produce more free weekly podcast Videos. Please help me launch these videos by working with me on Patreon to produce more free content. In gratitude, I’ll send you some signed books or even stream a theology event for you and your friends. Please become one of my patrons and check out the various tier benefits at: https://www.patreon.com/drtaylormarshall If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. If you find this podcast episode helpful, please share this podcast on Facebook. * Announcements: * The podcast is now on my channel on Youtube.com * The complete Sword and Serpent Trilogy is now published, including the third Book: Storm of Fire and Blood. * Download the Study Guide at: http://swordandserpent.com * New classes at New Saint Thomas Institute. We have just begun our New Testament Studies curriculum. Please visit: newsaintthomas.com for more details. I’d love to read your feedback: While you listen to today’s podcast, would you please take 30 seconds to write a review? Please click here to Rate this Podcast! Please Share Your Feedback: * iTunes: 2,457,319 downloads on iTunes as of today. * Youtube: Leave a comment on Youtube here. * SHOUT OUTS: A huge “shout out” to all 1,181 (!) of you who wrote amazing 5-star reviews at iTunes. Please rate this podcast by clicking here. From there you can leave a review. I appreciate you for this! Thank you! Subscribe to This Weekly Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or Youtube: * Apple/Mac Users: Please subscribe via iTunes by Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Easter pagan?
0:02.0	pagan. I saw a funny meme that was going around on social media that said keep
0:07.6	Astarte in Easter. This is a play on the Christmas meme which is Keep Christ in Christmas and these are pagans
0:16.5	are neo-pagans, Wiccan's making fun of the Catholic practice, the Christian practice of celebrating Easter in the spring.
0:26.2	And they're pointing towards the fact that there is this legend, this myth, that originally
0:31.7	the Christian Feast of Easter has nothing to do with the
0:35.6	resurrection of Jesus Christ and has everything to do with a pagan goddess that is
0:41.5	a starte. If we go back to the venerable bead he has a quote
0:46.4	talking about the name of this feast Easter and it reads like this. Aestramunth which is now interpreted as the Pascal month, was formally
0:55.5	named after the goddess Aestra and has given its name to the festival, end quote.
1:01.2	So what do we Catholics say about this? Are we worshiping the resurrection of
1:04.8	Christ using a pagan goddess name? Well not exactly. The proto-Germanic or the
1:11.5	ancient Anglo-Saxon term that Beat is referring to here is Istra and it refers to the Germanic term
1:21.0	Austra and you can hear in that word Easter also means East, just like in German. So Austria
1:29.4	is the eastern part. Australia also is to the east. And in our English term Easter you hear the word
1:35.6	East. All of these Germanic and Anglo-Saxon words derive from the term to rise. Spring, day spring, we say in our term spring. And it relates to the
1:49.3	spring equinox, all ancient people, whether they were Jewish or pagan or Christian, recognize that
1:57.3	around March 21st, the night in the day were equal. That's why it's called the Equinox. And this was a time of
2:04.1	celebration for pagans, but also for the Jews it marked the time of the
2:08.8	Passover, the Passover Moon. And this is how ancient Catholics computed the Passover Moon. And this is how ancient Catholics computed the Pasco Feaste. Just a note here. In Greek
2:18.7	and Latin, the term for Easter is Pasca and it relates to the Hebrew word Pessak which means Passover.
2:26.0	And so they computed the Christian festival as the first full moon after March 21st and the Sunday following that. So March 21st, full moon
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