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I'm not saying there never was a spring
goddess. I'm not saying that there never
was worship of pagans in the spring. I'm
not saying that. I am saying that the word
Easter is not a pagan word. It's the English
word with its roots in the Germanic
language which basically means resurrection.
So Easter is not a Christianized pagan
festival of some spring goddess or god of
fertility. You’ve got the German word oster;
then you've got Ishtar or Ashtar, and we go
on and on with these words and try to
connect them together, and this thing just
goes round and round in circles, whether it's
the West, the East, the Near East, Babylonians,
the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians or whatever.
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