EASTER—FERTILITY WORSHIP IN DISGUISE

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EASTER—FERTILITY WORSHIP IN DISGUISE

Promoted as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection, Easter is actually rooted in false religion. The name Easter itself has been linked to Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn and of spring. And how did eggs and rabbits come to be associated with Easter?

Eggs “have been prominent as symbols of new life and resurrection,” says the Encyclopædia Britannica, while the hare and the rabbit have long served as symbols of fertility. Easter, therefore, is really a fertility rite thinly disguised as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection.*
* Eostre (or Eastre) was also a fertility goddess.

According to The Dictionary of Mythology, “she owned a hare in the moon which loved eggs and she was sometimes depicted as having the head of a hare.”

Would Jehovah condone the use of a filthy fertility rite to commemorate his Son’s resurrection? Never! (2 Corinthians 6:17, 18)

In fact, the Scriptures neither command nor authorize the commemorating of Jesus’ resurrection in the first place.

To do so in the name of Easter, therefore, is to be doubly disloyal. jw.org