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of fertility otherwise known as Eostre, Ishtar, Ashtoreth and Astarte; the observance of Lent; the
adoption of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath; the practice of placing obelisks (steeples) on church
houses, and many other such departures from the teaching of Christ and His apostles.

Obelisks

Church Steeples

When all of these things are shown to predate Christianity by centuries, and are plainly demonstrated
to be artifacts of pagan religion, the believer who has not separated the faith of the original disciples
from the apostate forms of Christianity present today is left with the troubling conclusion that
Christianity has borrowed heavily from the very pagan religions it condemns. Christianity’s two most
revered holidays are based upon the astronomical observations of Babylonian sun worship, the first
occurring at the time of the Winter Solstice (Christmas), and the latter occurring at the time of the
Spring Equinox (Easter). Astonishingly, the church has even preserved the name of the pagan goddess
of fertility in the observance of its Spring celebration. The name Easter is a form of the Germanic
Eostre, the Babylonian Ishtar, the Aramean Astarte, and the Canaanite Ashtoreth who is named as one
of the false deities worshiped by pagan cultures in the Old Testament, and which the Israelites so
often embraced at the displeasure of Yahweh.

I Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians...

Christians may protest that Easter actually has its origin in the Hebrew Passover, but the fact of the
matter is that this Christian high holy day is an unrighteous merging of the holy and the profane.
Baskets of grass and bonnets of flowers, colored eggs, and Easter bunnies are all symbols of fertility
that are traceable back to the pagan worship of the Babylonian goddess of fertility, the Queen of
Heaven. Arising early to participate in a “Sunrise service” on “Easter” morning is equally pagan in