The catholics whitewashed it and adopted it..
but didn't it go all the way back to Babylon ?
I thought it was connected to Astarte / Ishtar ?
I studied it all too many years ago...but forgotten all I leaned back then... lol
Once again - please
address my response
(Post #147) to
YOUR false claims in post
#146.
This
Ishtar/Easter nonsense is based on an
ignorant assumption that
ALL ancient cultures spoke
English.
MOST of this manure was
invented by a 19th century
anti-Catholic named
Alexander Hislop, who wrote an anti-Catholic manifesto called,
"The Two Babylons."
A
20th century Protestant scholar names
Ralph Woodrow was so obsessed by Hislop's work that he wrote his
own book based on Hislop's work called
"The Babylon Connection".
HOWEVER, after doing some actual
research of his own - he discovered that Hislop
made up most of his
"facts".
Woodrow quickly
pulled his book from print and now runs a website
apologizing for having
written the book.
Look - just because you are able to
"Google" something -
DOESN'T make it true.
I can google information about
Jesus and the
Apostles being
gay - but that is just somebody's
warped opinion - not a fact . . .