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Happy Ishtar Day: The Origins of Easter
Sunday, April 5, 2015 14:50
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Easter was looked on with some skepticism by the ultra-religious Puritan sect when they showed up at Plymouth Bay. According to author Steve Englehart, these earlier settlers had bona fide religious reasons to eschew the holiday. “They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before Christians celebrated Easter…for the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid much attention to Easter.” …. http://jonathanturley.org
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/04/happy-ishtar-day-origins-of-easter.html
