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Sure, they have their gods, but Easter does
not mean Ishtar or Ashtar.
Where do these sources come from?
Where is all this connection? Basically from
two places. One source comes from an
English Catholic historian named Bede and
his work The Reckoning of Time who lived in
the early eighth century, and he states that
Easter is derived from an Anglo-Saxon
goddess of spring named Easter or Ostara.
Archeologists and historians have never
found evidence that supports this. There are
no records; there are no artifacts that I know
of, and there are no ruins. I've had
Alexander Hislop’s book for over 30 years,
and he said this about Easter: “What is
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