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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1 - Easter is a Heathen Celebration Chapter 2 - Rabbits Do Not Lay Eggs Chapter 3 - Churchgoers Worshiping the Sun Chapter 4 - The Lent Trap Chapter 5 - Was Jesus an Early Riser? Chapter 6 - No Matzah in Your Easter Basket Chapter 7 - Resurrection Revenue Chapter 8 - A Letter From a Witch Chapter 9 - False Doctrine of "Christian" Icons           • Billy Graham

 

Most of you know the routine. You dress up in your "Easter Sunday best" outfit, go to a church building, hear about the resurrection of Jesus Christ with some music, maybe even a presentation with actors in costume, and afterwards, go outside where the children look for some colorfully-painted eggs that have been hidden around the yard.

As children, we do not readily question what we do, nor why we do it, because we are simply learning from our family what we are supposed to do, and how we are supposed to behave. However, as I got older, I asked myself a very simple question, and one which most churchgoers I have encountered almost never ask:

WHY?
It is a great mystery to me why so many people never question what they do or why they do it, so long as it feels good to them. They drag a tree into their house and put tinsel on it, they adorn wacky costumes and demand candy from their neighbors, and they put up decorations of rabbits and eggs on the full moon of the spring equinox, all in the name of Jesus, but none of these practices make any rational sense.
(Read Christmas: Rejecting Jesus & Halloween: Are Christians Lovers of Death? here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

And while churchgoers delight in nonsense without sparing a moment to ask why, when I study the Bible, the Lord tells me that the righteous study to answer such questions:

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer:
but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
-Proverbs 15:28

No man can be righteous of himself (Rom 3:10), and if he is to obtain righteousness, it must be given to him by the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 4:22-24), but this verse is meant that those who would reflect the righteousness of Christ, and do that which is pleasing to God, would first study and think before answering a question, whether the subject matter be natural or spiritual. However, the mouth of wicked people, who turn from the wisdom of Scripture, blurt out regurgitated tropes before considering the facts, make no effort to learn anything, reject sound doctrine, abhor the idea of changing themselves for the sake of Christ, and instead prioritize the satisfaction of their lustful hearts.

The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
-Jeremiah 17:9

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool:
but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
-Proverbs 28:26

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
-2 Timothy 4:3-4

I grew up going to church buildings every week, and in my experience, churchogers regard Easter with more reverence than any other holiday they celebrate, to the point that their normal greetings temporarily transform into a Nazi-esque salute, repeating the phrase "He is Risen!" over and over again. Please do not misunderstand because I have reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection from the dead, without which I would be lost forever in hell, but I would also note that there is no commandment, precedent, nor vague suggestion in the Bible to have a ritualized celebration marked with an egg hunt.

The corrupt, pseudo-Christian website, Christianity.com, tell us what the "true" meaning of Easter is:
"Easter is one of the central holidays, or Holy Days, of Christianity. It honors the Resurrection of Jesus three days after His death by crucifixion. For many Christian churches, Easter is the joyful conclusion to the Lenten season of devoted prayer, fasting, and penitence."
-Christianity.com, "What Is the True Meaning of Easter? Why Is it Celebrated?" Apr 1, 2024, retrieved Mar 27, 2025, [https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/true-meaning-of-easter-why-is-it-celebrated.html]

I must compliment Christianity.com in their uncanny ability to overload us with propaganda, false information, and corrupt religious practices in only two short sentences. The average churchgoer reading this book may not understand what I mean just yet, but there is so much wrong with their paragraph, I needed the length of this book to unraveling the lies and deceit.

To clarify my position on Easter, I believe it is an abomination in the sight of the Lord, as declared by Him. Let's make sure we understand what the word 'abomination' means:

abomination (n): extreme hatred; detestation; defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements
(See 'abomination', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

To support the argument that Easter is an abomination, we will cover the the following in this book:

Easter is a celebration of idolatry. Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity. Easter's foundation comes from pagan lore, not the Bible. Easter does not honor the resurrection of Jesus. Easter is not celebrated the third day after Christ's crucifixion. Lenten traditions contradict the commandments of Christ.

During His ministry, Jesus Christ was mostly hated, and if it were not for the miracles He performed, most of the Jews would have not bothered coming to see Him. Most people wanted nothing to do with Jesus, nor did most people want anything to do with His apostles, and He told us that few would find the way to eternal life because they reject His doctrine:

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
-Matthew 7:13-14

Therefore, if Easter were truly a celebration of the doctrines and goodness of Jesus Christ, which leads us to salvation (Rom 2:4), then most people would want nothing to do with Him. So when worldly people, who obviously (simply by the way they live their lives) have no part with Christ or His church, show up once per year in their "Sunday best" for an Easter Sunday event, what does that tell us?


For many of these people, they do not attend church buildings on a regular basis, but they will show up for a prestigious event such as Easter because it is a fashion statement that provides them with the façade of a clean lifestyle, when they have anything but. Others believe in the ridiculous notion that God is pleased with them if they perform an annual dress-up play date at a church building, as if they somehow become "holy" by being in proximity on a particular day at a particular time.

David Sheley of Films for Christ poses a question for children about "why" question—"Why then, do we celebrate Easter?"—and the answer he provided was interesting:
"As Christians, we celebrate Easter for entirely different reasons than most people do. You see, about two thousand years ago, God sent His only Son, Jesus, to live a perfect life, and to die for our sins! But Jesus did not stay dead; He rose from the dead! We are actually celebrating Jesus' death for our sins and His resurrection. That is why many people call Easter, Resurrection Sunday, because that is exactly what it is."
-David Sheley, "Why do we celebrate Easter?" Christian Answers, retrieved Mar 27, 2025, [https://christiananswers.net/kids/edn-easter.html]

That begs the question, if "many people" call it "Resurrection Sunday" because that is allegedly "exactly what it is," then why do "most people" celebrate it for a different reason? In fact, when I was young, the only reason I was told that we celebrated it was because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, so what is the other reason?

Sheley does not provide that information on his website. Now that I am a grown adult with the grace of the Holy Ghost for understanding, I will provide the answer.



 

Try to put aside everything you have been told about Easter for a just a moment, and consider this: Why is a celebration alleging to be about the resurrection of Christ not just called "Resurrection Day" by everyone? This was suggested by the author at the end of the Introduction of this book, but he was answering why we celebrate "Easter," so that begs the question, why is it called "Easter?"

Imagine for a moment that every time someone died, we had a celebration called "Wester." Do you think there would come a time in a child's life when he would begin to question WHY we call it "Wester?" I would suggest that, in modernity (i.e. in our modern society), many people name their children based on how a name tickles their ear, personally preferring how a particular name sounds to them, rather than naming a child based on meaning, and therefore, in my opinion, it has become common practice to seldom question the meaning of names.

Etymology is the study of word origins, or how a word came to be created, how it has changed in society over time, and why it is categorized the way that it is. In the Etymology Online Dictionary, the listing under "Easter" says:
"Old English Easterdæg, 'Easter day,' from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, 'dawn,' also possibly the name of a goddess whose feast was celebrated in Eastermonao (the Anglo-Saxon month corresponding with April), from *aust- 'east, toward the sunrise' (compare east), from PIE root *aus- (1) 'to shine,' especially of the dawn."
-See "Easter," Etymology Online Dictionary, retrieved Mar 28, 2025, [https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=easter]

Although this website says that the name "possibly" comes from the name of a goddess, further research indicates that it most definitely came from the name of a goddess, and the name "Easter" does not make any sense otherwise. Most readers are probably unfamiliar with the "Wheel of the Year" that is revered by pagans and witches, but they use it as a means of worshipping the sun, and it is based on the position of the sun at certain intervals throughout the year.


Before we get into the details, I want to clarify that this is strictly condemned in the Word of God. Witchcraft of any kind, paganism (i.e. the practices of heathen, which includes witchcraft), and all their practices, are shown no favor whatsoever in the Bible; they are not encouraged, nor commanded to be followed, and God makes it clear to us that those who practice such things will not inherit His Kingdom in Heaven.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
-Galatians 5:19-21

I am not teaching that you will go to hell because you celebrated Easter, so please do not misunderstand me on this point. We cannot be saved by our works. (Rom 11:6) We are only saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ through repentance (i.e. broken-heartedness for wrongdoing) and faith (i.e. in the shed blood of Christ for the remission/forgiveness of sins), as Jesus taught us in Mark 1:15, however, we are commanded to flee (i.e. move quickly away from) idolatry of any kind, and paganism is idolatry.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
-1 Corinthians 10:14

idolatry (n): the worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God; idolatry is of two kinds; the worship of images, statues, pictures, etc. made by hands; and the worship of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars, or of demons, angels, men and animals; excessive attachment or veneration for any thing, or that which borders on adoration
(See 'idolatry', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

It is the pagans who see the days get shorter, and the sun and moon move from place to place, and are dismayed (i.e. discouraged or depressed) by the celestial signs. We are not to learn their ways, as we are taught in Jeremiah 10, which is not to say that we cannot understand them, as we learn about this subject in this book, but rather, the context of Jeremiah 10 teaches us that this is said that we should not learn to adopt them into our practices.

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
-Jeremiah 10:2

To make sure I am being absolutely clear, God has said, in no uncertain terms, that witchcraft in any form provokes Him to anger:

And he caused his children to pass through the fire [i.e. ritualistic abortion] in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
-2 Chronicles 33:6
(Read "Abortion: Paganism, Satanism, Sacrifices & Witchcraft" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

In the Witch's Wheel of the Year, I highlighted March 21st as "Ostara" or "Easter," and churchgoers will often us this as a point of contention because Easter does not fall on that date. In fact, the earliest date for Easter is March 22nd, but that has not happened since 1818, and is not scheduled to happen again until 2285. However, March 21st is the Spring Equinox (or the vernal equinox of the Northern Hemisphere), which is a mid-point in the year (between the solstices of Dec 21st and June 21st, the longest and shortest days of the year) when the Earth's axis is not tilted towards the sun, resulting in almost exactly an even 12 hours for day and night respectively, marking the first day of Spring.

The following author practiced witchcraft for over 20 years before his death in 1993, and he is still highly regarded in Wiccan circles as a foremost authority in witchcraft: "Ostara (circa March 21), the spring equinox, also known as spring, Rites of Spring, and Eostra's Day, marks the first day of true spring... On Ostara the hours of day and night are equal. Light is overtaking darkness; the Goddess and God impel the wild creatures of the earth to reproduce... Traces of this old custom are even found in Christianity. [i.e. the author is referring to Catholcism] Easter, for example, is placed on Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, a rather 'pagan' way to organize religious rites."
-Scott Cunningham, Wicca, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2010, ISBN: 9780738717159

As I said, churchgoers will contend that March 21st is not Easter, but Easter is the first full moon after March 21st. Why? There is no reason any man can offer from Scriptural commandment, nor any indication of "holiness," to wait until the first full moon after the Spring Equinox to have a celebration of Jesus, but the tradition had to have come from somewhere, and that "somewhere" is paganism.

That notion is immediately rejected by most churchgoers because they pride themselves in their so-called "holy" celebration on what they claim to be a "Resurrection Day," and they adopt an attitude of arrogance that condemns all those (like myself) who dare to question their holy sacred cow of Easter. However, despite their objections, the full moon is very significant to pagans, as taught by the following author, who is a high priestess in the Wiccan religion:
"To this day, Easter Sunday is determined by the ancient lunar calendar system which places the holiday on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or following the Vernal Spring Equinox. (Formally, this marked the 'pregnant' phase of the Triple Goddess passing into the fertile season.)"
-Gerina Dunwich, Wicca Craft: The Modern Witches Book of Herbs, Magick and Dreams, Citadel Press, 1991, p. 28, ISBN: 9780806512389.

Whether churchgoers want to admit or deny this, the fact is that it makes sense, not that it is truth (because paganism is a lie of the devil), but that it makes sense from the perspective of the pagans, and the chronology matches their religious ideology. Other churchgoers will object by claiming that the date of Easter was determined by the Council of Nicea in 325 under Constantine I, but it should first be noted that Constantine was a pagan, not a Christian, and the Council of Nicea was made to put the church under Rome's authority (which the true church has never been a part of), to establish it as an "approved" religion under Roman licensing (despite the fact that the church is under Christ, not Rome).

I will briefly cover a few points on this subject, but I cannot cover it in its entirety in this book, so if you want more details, I highly recommend reading another book I wrote called Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism, here at creationliberty.com. Despite what the world has been brainwashed to believe, Catholicism is the world's largest antichrist religious cult that parades itself as "Christian," when they have almost nothing to do with Christianity other name leeching off of the title, and that their true founder, Constantine never converted to Christianity; rather, he converted weak-minded churchgoers into pagans.

Though Catholics claim their origin started with Peter, they have never had a shred of historical or Scriptural evidence to back up that claim (i.e. they just say it because it makes them sound spiritual), and the real Catholic Church started in 312 A.D. during Constantine's involvement in the Battle of Milvian Bridge, which was a war between Constantine and Maxentius, who fought over the title of Roman Emperor. This is based on the Catholic claim that he had a dream the night before battle about a cross symbol, and painted what Catholic historians claim was a "cross" on the shields of his soldiers, but in reality, he painted the Roman Labarum on the shields, which is similar to the Egyptian Ankh, and he did stragetically to boost the moral of his troops because most of them worshipped the Persian god Mithra: "LABARUM: Emblem of the Persian god Mithra, derived from the Egyptian ankh, painted on the shield of the emperor Constantine for the purpose of encouraging his Mithra-worshipping soldiers to believe they were fighting for their god. Because the labarum resembled the Greek letters khi and rho superimposed on each other, and khi and rho were the first two letters of khristos, it was later claimed by the Christians that Constantine had triumphed under a Christian symbol. In fact Constantine did not declare himself a Christian until much later."
-William Harwood, Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology: Third Edition (2011), World Audience Inc, 2017, p. 284, ISBN: 9781544601403


Constantine was a pagan at heart, and Rome was the umbrella under which all religious corporation were required to be officated. No department of Rome was permitted to go to war against itself, and therefore, just as with any government, all approved state religions cannot be in conflict with each other, which means that their so-called "Christianity" had to be established in a way that did not conflict with the pagan religions already under Rome's leadership, and this is the very ecumenical essence of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as all its denominations. (e.g. Anglicanism, Orthodoxy, etc.)

The Catholic Church started out as a pagan organization, designed solely to fuse paganism into a corrupt, hybrid form of "Christianity," and therefore, it is no wonder that their council wanted to consolidate a celebration of "Easter," which was a pagan festival. There were some cults at the time who celebrated Easter in a passover hybrid celebration, but there was no fixed date, and Constantine wanted to remedy that issue:
"There also the question having been considered relative to the most holy day of Easter, it was determined by common consent that it should be proper that all should celebrate it on one and the same day everywhere."
-Constantine Augustus, Church History (Socrates Scholasticus), Book I, Chapter 9, "The Letter of the Synod, relative to its Decisions: and the Condemnation of Arius and those who agreed with him," retrieved Mar 28, 2025, [https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/26011.htm]

However, despite what many so-called "Christian" websites claim, the Council of Nicea did NOT establish the regimen for the date of Easter. It was established by the pagan Catholic Church over two centuries later (around 525 A.D.), mostly credited to Catholic Monk Dionysius (named after the Greek god of wine and theater), but he took much of the idea from the scholars in Alexandria, Egypt, a hub for pagan culture, that housed temples to the Serapis, Isis, Osiris, Zeus, Poseidon, and Saturn, just to name a few.

There is no other historical reason for making it the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, other than it was an Alexandrian rule, and that rule was there because of pagan culture. It only makes sense that Catholicism, which is pagan by nature, would adhere to pagan tradition.

The following author is a priestess of Wicca, and has studied it for over 25 years:
"The Christian [i.e. Catholic] holy day of Easter is named for Her [the Goddess of Paganism], and is observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox — when the pregnant Goddess enters the season of fertility."
-Amber K., Coven Craft: Witchcraft for Three or More, Llewellyn Worldwide, 1998, p. 158, ISBN: 9781567180183

The pagans believe that the first full moon after the Spring Equinox is significant because they believe the full moon is representative of the pregenant moon goddess conceiving the sun god. The pagans believe that sun god dies in the fall (i.e. All Hallows Eve, or Halloween) while the moon goddess is pregnant with a new sun god from the previous spring, the sun god is birthed in the winter (i.e. Yule, or Christmas), and then flourishes in the spring (i.e. Easter) to fertilize the moon goddess once again.
(Read Christmas: Rejecting Jesus here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

This quote is from an award-winning pagan author, who has written many books on witchcraft and the occult:
"The words Easter and oestrogen (estrogen) were derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'Ostara,' goddess of fertility. Night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascent... The God of the Waxing Year confirms his Yuletide victory over his twin, the Lord of the Waning Year. The Goddess in her Maiden aspect is wooed by the young sun god's embraces and conceives a child. The child will be born nine months from now at the next winter solstice."
-Kala Trobe, The Witch's Guide to Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2003, p. 112, ISBN: 9780738702001

In other words, the sun god would be born at what people now call "Christmas," which is the real reason Catholics allegedly celebrate the "birth of Christ" in December, despite the fact that it makes no sense because Jesus was not born anywhere close to that date. Catholic Online, whether knowingly or not, emphasizes the same pagan connection between Christmas (i.e. Yule) and Easter (i.e. Ostara) as witches do:
"Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Leo I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast (festum festorum), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter."
-Catholic Online, "Easter Sunday - April 5, 2015, Holy Day of Obligation," retrieved Apr 1, 2025, [https://www.catholic.org/lent/easter.php]

Although we Christians find paganism abhorant, Catholics revere the moon goddess and worship her, but like pagans of different cultures, they call her by a different name. The Catholics call their moon goddess "Mary," and those involved in witchcraft religions understand the symbolism of the Catholic Church very well: "Many mythological traditions identify the moon as a feminine counterpart to the masculine sun. For this reason, a number of Goddesses are associated with the moon, including Artemis or Diana, Selena, and of course, Luna. Even the 'Goddess' of Christianity, the Virgin Mary, has some associations with the moon under her feet... So, for Witches, the moon is special because it is a powerful symbol of the Goddess, and therefore of women."
-Gerina Dunwich, Wicca A to Z: A Complete Guide to the Magickal World, Citadel Press, 1997, p. 180, ISBN: 9780806519302

Catholics argue this point to say that they do not worship Mary, and that Mary is not a goddess because they are referring to the Mary, mother of Jesus, in Scripture. However, there are a couple of problems with their claim, the first being that pagans are well aware that their goddess goes by MANY names:
"When envisioning the Goddess and God, many of the Wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. Diana, Pan, Isis, Hermes, Hina, Tammuz, Hecate, Ishtar, Cerridwen, Thoth, Tara, Aradia, Artemis, Pele, Apollo, Kanaloa, Bridget, Helios, Bran, Lugh, Hera, Cybele, Inanna, Maui, Ea, Athena, Lono, Marduk--the list is virtually endless. Many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information furnish the concept of deity for Wiccans."
-Scott Cunningham, Wicca, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2010, ISBN: 9780738717159

I would recommend readers check out chapter six in my book Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism for more details on this because Catholics call her "Mary Immaculate," meaning that they believe she was sinless, spotless, and flawless, which means they hold her in a much higher regard than the pagans hold their moon goddess. Catholics are idolaters who worship the goddess they call "Mary," and they always object to accusation of idolatry, but they remove the commandments against idolatry from their edited version of the Ten Commandments to cover themselves, and I would like to emphasize that if what they do is not idolatry, then idolatry does not exist.

Mortify [subdue or restrain] therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
-Colossians 3:5-6

The following quote is from a witch with over three decades of experience, and is part of the pagan Welsh Traditionalist Coven in Missouri: "The major difference between The Goddess and the Blessed Virgin Mary is that The Goddess is a Creatrix in Her Own Right and a source of Divine Power. In Catholicism, Mary is Blessed, unique among women, sinless, The Mother of God - and it is believed that She ascended bodily into Heaven. However, for Catholics, She is supposed to be merely a channel of Power from God, and not a source of Divine Power, Herself. Of course, this is only the official view of the Catholic Church. Many worshipers understand, and have always understood instinctively, if not consciously, that the Blessed Virgin is a modern version of The Goddess; and many Catholic cathedrals are actually built upon the sites of ancient temples to The Great Goddess. For example, St. Peters Cathedral in the Vatican is built right on top of the old temple of The Goddess, Magna Mater, and some parts of the original temple are presumably still left under the foundations."
-Raven Emrys Aurlineus, "The Catholic Goddess," May 4, 2008, retrieved Nov 20, 2013, [http://ravenemrys.hubpages.com/hub/The-Catholic-Goddess#]

I readily acknowledge that the opinion of a witch is no necessarily indicative of a Catholic's beliefs, but when the Catholics themselves do not seem to understand what they belief, nor have any Scripturally justified reason for why they do what they do, then it behooves us to look for answers elsewhere. Once we understand that Catholicism was founded on pagan religion, and that its founder crafted a demonic hybrid of paganism and poorly interpreted doctrine from the Bible, then it stands to reason that those who follow its teachings would be idolaters.

The similarities between Catholicism (along with its various denominations) and paganism are striking. Pagans refer to their goddess as the "Queen of Heaven," and Catholics also refer to Mary as the "Queen of Heaven," and this is because the two are one and the same.

Catholic Answers, one of the officially approved website of the Catholic Church, defends the idea that Mary is the "Queen of Heaven," and Catholic author Edward Sri openly admit that non-Catholics see it as a problem:
"Mary's title as 'Queen of Heaven and Earth' is a great scandal to many non-Catholic Christians. After all, the Bible doesn't mention anything about there being a queen in God's kingdom. All this royal attention Catholics give to Mary—whether it's singing 'Hail, holy queen enthroned above' or portraying Mary in statues and paintings with a crown on her head—seems to many non-Catholics to detract from the royalty of Christ, who alone is King of Kings."
-Edward Sri, "Is Mary’s Queenship Biblical?" Catholic Answers, Aug 19, 2019, retrieved Apr 1, 2025, [https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/is-marys-queenship-biblical]

Sri's use of the word "scandal" is very light and playful compared to the actual offense, which is heresy, but Catholics do not like to use that word when it comes to their beliefs because it makes them look bad. This is not a matter of "detract[ing] from the royalty of Christ," but rather, it is a fundamental sin called 'idolatry', which is antichrist in its philosophy, and if any readers want to learn more, I would recommend chapter six in my book, Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism, which covers the Marian idolatry in much more detail.

Catholics will obviously object to my arguments, and many people who are ignorant of pagan culture do not understand how "Mary" can refer to a pagan goddess, but what most people do not understand is that the various names of gods and goddesses throughout all cultures are (according to pagan lore) referring to the same mythological persons:
"When envisioning the Goddess and God, many of the Wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. Diana, Pan, Isis, Hermes, Hina, Tammuz, Hecate, Ishtar [i.e. Ostara or Easter], Cerridwen, Thoth, Tara, Aradia, Artemis, Pele, Apollo, Kanaloa, Bridget, Helios, Bran, Lugh, Hera, Cybele, Inanna, Maui, Ea, Athena, Lono, Marduk--the list is virtually endless. Many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information furnish the concept of deity for Wiccans."
-Scott Cunningham, Wicca, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2010, ISBN: 9780738717159

This is part of the concept of what Revelation calls "MYSTERY BABYLON" in Revelation 17:5, which has to do with the Babylonian religions being separated into groups when God confounded their languages at the Tower of Babel. (Gen 11:7) They all worshiped the same false gods, but now that their languages have been separated, they call those gods by different names, and the Catholic Church, riding atop the Roman beast, has brought them together again, and will pave the way for the coming antichrist, and if any readers want to learn more about that, I recommend chapter eleven in my book, Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism here at creationliberty.com.

The particular goddess worshipped by witches and pagans at this time of the year go by the following names: Eostra/Eostar/Eostre (Saxon), Ishtar (Sumerian), Ostara (German), Astarte (Greek), and Easter (Modern English). These names all represent the same goddess and refer to the same pagan traditions, and although the name "Easter" has been mistakingly attributed by many people to other feasts, such as Passover (which we will cover in more detail later), its foundational meaning is built on heathen ideology.

For example, the goddess "Ashtoreth" is mentioned in 1st Kings:

Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
-1 Kings 11:33

The following quote is from a high-level priestess in the Wiccan religion, who has authored many books about magic and witchcraft. She points out that Ashtoreth is another name for Astarte and Ishtar, which (as we learned earlier in this chapter) are the names after which Easter was labeled:
"Invocations [to] Goddesses: Anahita, Anath, Aparajita, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Athena, Badb, Bellona, Durga, Eris, Fea, Inanna, Ishtar,"
-Eileen Holland, The Wicca Handbook, Weiser Books, 2008, ISBN: 9781609254520

The next quote is from another high level Wiccan priestess, who teaches the basics of her craft to new converts. She emphasizes that the names Ashtoreth and Astarte (or in this context, Easter) were the names of the goddess of the Canaanites:
"Images of the Goddess...offer silent testimony to the most ancient worship of the Queen of heaven in the land that is most often remembered today as the homeland of Judaism and Christianity. In exploring the influence and importance of the worship of the Goddess in Canaan in biblical times, we find that as Ashtoreth, Asherah, Astarte, Anath, or simply as Elat or Baalat, she was the principal deity of such great Canaanite cities as Tyre, Sidon, Ascalon, Beth Anath, Aphaca, Byblos, and Ashtoreth Kamaim."
-Athena Gardner, Lessons in Goddess Spirituality: Wicca 101, iUniverse, 2000, p. 15, ISBN: 9780595131167

The Lord, through His prophet Ezra, warned the Jews that they were to have nothing to do with the practices of the Canaanites because their beliefs and rituals were an abomination (i.e. greatly hated) by God:

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
-Ezra 9:1

What I am trying to get readers to understand is that churchgoers are honoring the goddess of the Canaanites in the same way, even though most of them are doing it unknowingly. However, the vast majority of them do not care, just as Solomon did not care when he followed the pagan ways:

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
-1 Kings 11:5

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians...
-2 Kings 23:13

It is a shame on churchgoers that witches have a better understanding of this than they do. However, self-proclaimed Christians just continue on with their pagan practices in willful ignorance, and far worse, they continue witchcraft ideology in the name of Jesus, taking Christ's holy name upon themselves when they do abominable things.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
-Exodus 20:7

This verse is often misconstrued by churchgoers to mean people should not use the name of God and Christ as cuss word, which would be USING the name of God in vain. Rather, this verse is speaking of ambassadorship, or in other words, we ought not to take the name of God upon ourselves, to call ourselves "Christian," while having no repentance of our wrongdoing, and making His Word of lower priority to the sentiments of our hearts.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
-Proverbs 14:12

Witches seduce men into doing strange (i.e. foreign and pagan) things, just as they did with Solomon, which is the primary reason he accepted and permitted paganism to flourish in Israel:

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
-1 Kings 11:1-3

Churchgoes are making the same error that Solomon made thousands of years ago, and they think they are so much different and more sophisticaed, but as Solomon wrote by the wisdom of God, there is no new thing under the sun, meaning that mankind will continue to do the wicked things they do in an endless sin cycle:

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 1:9

Churchgoers commonly make the argument that Easter is "all about Jesus," but slapping a "Jesus" sticker on pagan tradition does not automatically make it good. They think they can do whatever they pleased by they claim to be saved (i.e. delivered), but the Jews made the same argument, and God rebuked them:

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
-Jeremiah 7:8-11

Now that we have established a strong connection between pagan beliefs and Easter, we can begin to unravel the mystery of rabbits and eggs being associated with the churchgoers' so-called "Resurrection Sunday."



 

This chapter will cover the symbolism of the Easter celebration, and when I go to Google images and search for "easter," I am immediately bombarded with pictures of rabbits and eggs. This is quite the conundrum because, as indicated in the title to this chapter, rabbits do not lay eggs, but as we established in the previous chapter, the reason for the rabbit/egg connection to Easter is paganism.

This pagan author explains it in more detail:
"Ostara—March 20-23... This is the Spring Equinox, known also as Ostara, or Eostar. It's the time of balance, when light and dark are equal and the Earth swells with new life. In ancient times, people celebrated the arrival of spring, and the Goddess of Eostar, or Eostre, whose symbols were the egg and the hare, both representations of the Great Mother... Traditional symbols of this Sabbat are eggs, lambs, chicks, and rabbits—all symbolic of the Goddess in her 'mother' aspect. Eggs are considered a symbol of the universe itself, with the shell representing earth; the membrane, air; the yolk, fire; and the white, water. An ancient Ostara custom was to dye eggs red, the color of life-force and regeneration. Other traditional colors of this Sabbat are silver and penny-candy pastels."
-Michele Morgon, Simple Wicca, Conari Press, 2008, p. 52, ISBN: 9781609250393

Rabbits, eggs, chicks, and lambs are all pagan fertility symbols that have specific meaning in witchcraft. I am in no way arguing that rabbits, eggs, chicks, or lambs are bad or wrong for their daily intended use, but their use specifically within the context of Easter is an abomination to God.

Let's begin with rabbits, or hares, which is explained by Wind Moon Magick, a website for witches who want to learn more about their craft:
"Rabbits and hares have long been associated with magic, mystery, and fertility in various cultures and traditions. In modern witchcraft, they are often seen as powerful symbols of renewal, growth, and the cycle of life. The energy of the rabbit or hare is often associated with spring, the season of growth and renewal, making them an ideal symbol for spells and rituals related to these themes. In many cultures, rabbits and hares are also associated with the moon and the goddesses associated with the moon, such as Artemis and Ostara. This association adds to their symbolism of mystery, magic, and the hidden aspects of life. In modern witchcraft, rabbits and hares are often used in spells and rituals related to new beginnings, fertility, and manifestation."
-Wind Moon Magick, "Animal Magick: The Magick of Hares & Rabbits," retrieved Apr 1, 2025, [https://www.windmoonmagic.com/animals/the-magick-of-hares-amp-rabbits]

The rabbit is perceived to be a fertility symbol among pagans because rabbits can have more than one gestation cycle at the same time. In other words, rabbits that are pregnant with bunnies can get pregnant again before they give birth, and this fertility symbol has been used by various wicked groups, including the infamous Playboy bunny.


The use of a rabbit symbol in this regard is a reference to sexual intercourse, and meaning that rabbits in this context are a sex symbol. Patti Wigington, a high priestess in the Wiccan religion, has written many articles for the website Learn Religions, and she openly admits this:
"Spring equinox, or Ostara, is a time for fertility and sowing seeds, and so nature's fertility goes a little crazy. The rabbit—for good reason—is often associated with fertility magic and sexual energy."
-Pattie Wigington, "Egg-Laying Bunnies and Mad March Hares," Sept 25, 2019, retrieved Apr 1, 2025, [https://www.learnreligions.com/egg-laying-bunnies-and-mad-march-hares-2562459]

Wigington goes on in her article to suggest witchcraft spells and pagan rituals using rabbits to invoke sexual arousal and increase fertility. So I ask readers: Do you think it is appropriate for churchgoers to use rabbits in this sexual fertility context in the name of Jesus?

I have heard all of the excuses churchgoers offer. "That's not what it means to me!" or "We just do it for fun for the children!" When they give me these excuses, all they are doing is trying to justify that which they know to be wrong, so they do not have to change their lives, and that is because conversion (i.e. turning and changing away from wrongdoing) is more abhorrant to them than the things that are abhorrant to God.

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way:
and he that hateth reproof shall die.
-Proverbs 15:10

Churchgoers typically love their traditions more than they love Jesus.

Many churchgoers are ignorant of the Scriptures, to the point that they do not even understand that their use of the cross symbol (🕇, which is "man's device") should not be used to represent Christianity, and that is why you will not find me using it on my website, in my articles, or in my books. We who are born again in Jesus Christ should not use any kind of symbol to represent Him and His doctrine.
(Read "Christian Symbols Are Not Christian" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
-Acts 17:29

Therefore, if churchgoers want to believe these symbols are good for the church in any way, they making the Word of God of no effect to the hearers because they are hypocrites that will not hear the truth. We Christians are commanded not to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness that have been created by the pagans, but rather, we should correct those who do these abominations.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
-Mark 7:13

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
-Ephesians 5:11

Eggs and chicks obviously go together because one eventually comes from the other. Although evolutionists cannot figure out which one came first, God told us it was the chicken that came first, and that makes logical sense, but if you have an atheistic worldview, you will be unable to answer very simple questions, and instead be left with childish riddles that will never be solved.
(Read "Evolutionism: Another New-Age Religion" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

But churchgoers are left with their own riddle about how to connect their so-called "Resurrection Sunday" to painted eggs and "Easter-egg hunts" because there is nothing in the Bible that even slightly hints at such symbolism or practice, but once again, corrupt pagan ideology offers a very simplistic and logical link. The following quote is from the owner of Salem West, one of the largest witchcraft stores in the midwest, and is the host of the annual Real Witches Ball, one of the largest gathers of witches in America:
"Culturally speaking, we see public Easter egg hunts and games designed to promote community. Why not? After all, not only are those eggs a symbol of animal fertility associated with this Holiday, but the very practice of hunting those eggs comes from the ancient practice of hunting for eggs and nuts to be given as gifts of fertility... What better way of sharing the true Pagan meaning of this celebration with our children?"
-A.J. Drew, A Wiccan Bible: Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft from Birth to Summerland, Career Press, 2003, p. 148, ISBN: 9781564146663

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Drew on this point, what better way is there to teach children the ways of the heathen than to create games with prizes? Drew is also correct that it "promote[s] community" because most church buildings in America today are 501c3 incorporated community centers that masquerade as a "church," when in reality, they sold their souls to the IRS by signing a contract that denounces Jesus Christ as the head of the church, and taking a community-center approach helps them keep up attendance numbers that would otherwise dwindle if they taught the truth of Christ's Gospel of Salvation.
(Read 501c3: The Devil's Church here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

The egg is commonly known to be a symbol of fertility in pagan cultures around the world:
"These days, when we think about eggs, we may think of a delicious omelet or a fluffy yellow chick. But eggs have a long history rich in symbolism and have many uses in witchcraft. Eggs in magick and witchcraft represent fertility, rebirth, creation, and abundance... Easter eggs may also come to mind, and the roots of the practice of coloring eggs can be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. The story goes that on the day when Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was born, his mother's hen laid a red speckled egg. She understood this to be a sign of good fortune for her son's future. This led to a tradition of coloring eggs with red dye and exchanging them on important days to wish blessings and good luck to others. Colorful eggs are a common sight around Ostara and Easter. Many witches use this tradition to incorporate color magick and the symbolism of eggs into their practice."
-Sarah E. Wolfe, "Oomancy: The Magick and Folklore of Eggs," Green Witch Living, retrieved Apr 2, 2025, [https://blog.greenwitchliving.com/eggs-in-magick-and-witchcraft-folklore/]

I could find no references to any documentation about Domitia Lucilla (the mother of Marcus Aurelius) having a hen that laid a speckled egg, so that story may not be true. However, what is true is that Rome was home to hundreds of pagan religions, and it was a deeply superstitious society that heeded whatever they considered to be "omens" (i.e. events that are interpreted to be a good or bad fortune of future events), so it is not unreasonable to consider that a story like this might have been handed down to justify some tradition they may have had, and that those things would come from the pagan Roman Catholic Church is no surprise to me whatsoever.

My wife and I raise grass-fed chickens, and because they are somewhat free range (i.e. we try to keep them fenced in as much as possible to protect them from predators), different birds have different preferences for where they lay their eggs, and although we have specified areas for them to lay, they choose to do what they want, so when we suddenly see a sharp decline in our egg count, we often end up having to hunt for eggs around the property from week to week. Such egg hunting traditions may have evolved from basic farm practices, but wherever they came from, the fact is that there is no Biblical precendent to connect coloring, hiding, hunting, and using the symbolism of eggs to a ritual honoring Jesus Christ, and the thought alone is so foolish and nonsensical, I felt somewhat frustrated that I even needed to write that sentence into this book.

As I mentioned earlier, rabbits do not lay eggs, nor do rabbits commonly eat eggs, as they are not part of their normal diet. Therefore, if there is some connection between rabbits and eggs for a religious holiday, we should find the reason for it in the tenets of the religion in question, and since we do not find them in the Bible, the only other place to look is in pagan doctrine and the weird traditions of men:
"Easter, like nearly every Christian [i.e. Catholic] religious holiday, is rich with an abundance of Pagan overtones, customs, and traditions such as Easter eggs and the Easter bunny. Eggs, as previously mentioned, were ancient fertility symbols and offerings to the goddess of the Pagans. The hare was a symbol of rebirth and resurrection, and was a sacred animal to many lunar goddesses in both western and eastern cultures, including the goddess Ostara, whose escort was a rabbit."
-Gerina Dunwich, Wicca Craft: The Modern Witches Book of Herbs, Magick and Dreams, Citadel Press, 1991, p. 28, ISBN: 9780806512389

"Eggs and rabbits are sacred to Her [Ostara]... Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to Her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves especially, probably as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites)... Rabbits are sacred to Ostara, especially white rabbits, and She was said to be able to take the form of a rabbit."
-RavynStar, "Goddess Ostara," Mar 17, 2012, retrieved Apr 2, 2025, [https://journeyingtothegoddess.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/goddess-ostara/]

This is indeed what pagans and witches believe, as we can see from the following image of a wreath sign sold on Etsy. As I explained in my book, Christmas: Rejecting Jesus, the wreath is symbol of witchcraft's "wheel of the year," representing the annual cycle of sun and moon worship, and this wreath was designed with the image of Ostara (i.e. Easter), the goddess or "Queen of Heaven" transformed into a rabbit, but with the queen's crown still on her head.

(See DesignsbyCherylBaker, "Ostara Bunny Wreath Sign," Etsy, retrieved Apr 2, 2025, [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1352199922/ostara-bunny-wreath-sign-ostara-wreath])

And the lamb is also symbolic in pagan lore as a fertility symbol during Ostara:
"Lamb Amulet: To increase fertility or to fill your home with peace, use an amulet in the shape of a lamb (the symbol of fertility and peace)."
-Gerina Dunwich, The Wicca Spellbook, Citadel Press, 1994, p. 78, ISBN: 9780806514765

Some churchgoers will stop and say to themselves, "The Bible tells us that Jesus is the Lamb of God, so what's wrong with that?" This question is not meant as an inquiry for understanding, but rather, it is asked as a justification, to push away any argument that would show them their own wrongdoing.

Their (perhaps willful) lack of understanding comes from their ignorance of the difference between an analogy and a symbol, and why the Bible uses analogies while the pagans use symbols. For example, John the Baptist called Jesus "the lamb of God" in the first chapter of the book of John:

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
-John 1:29

When John gestured to Jesus Christ and told the Jews to "behold" Him, he was not pointing at a man and teaching the Jews to believe that Jesus was a literal sheep. Rather, John was emphasizing an analogy that Jesus was the sacrificial lamb that God had foretold He would send to the save the world from their sins.

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
-Genesis 22:8

An analogy is a comparison between two things, highlighting some similarities to explain or clarify the meaning of something, however, a symbol is an object, image, or word that is not used just for comparison, but as representation of something. Put another way, an analogy builds a bridge between two things to teach a lesson, while a symbol replaces or condenses meaning into a single idea.

For example, if I said "Time flows like a river," that is a decent analogy to show that time flows one way in a consistent path. However, if I took you to a river and said, "Behold, time!" that does not logically follow because the river does not become time itself, nor does it represent time.

This is one of the reasons that idols are nonsensical. Pagans make idols to represent things that are nonexistent, and though they pray to their idols, those idols cannot pass knowledge of any kind, they are dumb (because they cannot speak), and that makes them vain and confusing, let alone an abomination in the sight of God.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto
these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
-1 Corinthians 12:2

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
-Jeremiah 10:5

The following author is a veteran practitioner of Wicca, and even does "evanglistic" teaching in a pagan prison ministry:
"For Wiccans, lambs are symbols of the cute and fluffy, of innocence and of youthful energies. In the early Spring, it's appropriate to symbolize our God as a lamb—so long as we remember that lambs do mature, and the males become rams, just as our God matures and takes on the more assertive and lusty aspects we associate with male sheep."
-Ashleen O'Gaea, Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain to Ostara, Career Press, 2004, p. 139-140, ISBN: 9781564147318

To hold up a lamb (or any image of one) and say it is representative of Jesus Christ is an offense against God because the Bible tells us that we ought not to worship and serve creatures.

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
-Romans 1:25

Of course, churchgoers will argue that they do no such thing, but why it is that they put up images of lambs in their homes and church buildings during Easter? They only have one answer: because of Jesus Christ, and therefore, they are creating a symbol of Jesus in idolatry.

Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. -Deuteronomy 4:15-19

These verses are given to us for instruction and correction, that would know the will of the Lord, and what pleases and displeases Him. Should we ignore this and just do whatever we please? Or should we consider that God hates the ways of the heathen and turn from them?

(See Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, [https://www.homemoravian.org/])

Jesus Christ, nor the doctrines of His Gospel, were ever meant to be symbolized by anything, not even the cross symbol as I mentioned earlier. The Lamb of God is a name for the metaphor of Christ being a pure sacrifice for the sins of man, but in paganism, the lamb is an actual symbol they use to represent their god, and Christians should have no part with those who follow the traditions of the heathen.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
-1 Corinthians 5:11-13

If we are not to keep idolaters among the church, why would we keep the idols themselves? It is basic reason that if the idolater is condemned, the idol is also condemned, and therefore, those of us born again in Christ should have nothing to do with these pagan traditions.

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
-2 Timothy 2:19-21

For example, if a pastor told everyone that they should bring Muslim symbolism into the church building, and that they all should get prayer mats and face Mecca in honor of Jesus, there would be substantial push back from the congregation because they know it is dishonorable to the Lord to practice Islam, which is also a pagan religion. However, what they quickly forget is that paganism is also a religion, and they have not only accepted pagan traditions fused into their midst, they defend it with great fervence.
(Read "Islam: Religion of Terror" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

When one belief or practice contradicts the other, which one do you keep?

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
-Matthew 6:24

Most churchgoers refuse to pick one, and therefore, being lukewarm, they will be rejected by Christ:

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
-Revelation 3:15-16

Some churchgoers may want to dismiss my hypothetical as "ridiculous," but they fail to recognize that it is not a hypothetical because a religion called "Chrislam" exists, which is a combination of so-called "Christianity" and Muslim beliefs. Likewise, there is a religion called "Christian Wicca" in which the same thing happens, just with paganism instead of Islam; both of them are abominations, and their ideology, practices, and symbolism should be thoroughly rebuked and removed from the church of Christ.
(See PBS "'Chrislam' Combines Christian and Muslim Beliefs," retrieved Apr 3, 2025, [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-videos/2023/08/chrislam-combines-christian-and-muslim-beliefs]; See also Cassie Beyer, "Christian Wicca," Wicca For the Rest of Us, June 20, 2014, retrieved Apr 3, 2025, [http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/christian-wicca/])

However, that is not what we see the average church building doing. In fact, most church buildings in America (and I am sure, around the world) uphold the sentiments of so-called "Christian" Wicca, and the following quote is from Nancy Pittman, who is one of the key people who popularized the "Christian" Wicca movement:
"The Easter Bunny had its origins with the legend of the Germanic Goddess Eostre. The small field rabbit wished with all its heart to please this Goddess. As a show of his devotion, he decorated the sacred eggs with bright colors and intricate patterns and then humbly presented them to his beloved Goddess. She was so pleased with the bunny's beautiful work, that she wished all of humankind to join in and share her joy! Since that day, the Eostre (Easter) rabbit has gone throughout the world carrying out her wishes, and delivering little decorated gifts of life."
-Nancy C. Pittman, Christian Wicca: The Trinitarian Tradition, self-published, 2003, p. 123, ISBN: 9781410753472

Of course, this is a bunch of garbage because, based on what I have read in Wiccan articles, they mostly reject "Christian" Wicca because it is not only contradictory to pagan beliefs, but also because (as you can see) it is overly loose with the lore. But as I just said, churchgoers blindly follow the practices without consideration for the doctrine, and just continue in worldly rituals while glorying themselves in their shame.

"Following the success of its Candy Bar Bingo Night in March, First Reformed Church, the Church on the Hill, in Walden hosted yet another successful community event, dubbed their 1st Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Boasting nearly 1300 Easter eggs, the church received an exciting response from its members and the greater Walden community. Complete with the Easter Bunny attending, the event included eggs, refreshments and good old fashioned family fun!"
-Wallkill Valley Times, "First Reformed Church hosts its first Easter Egg hunt," Apr 20, 2023, retrieved Apr 3, 2025, [https://www.timeshudsonvalley.com/wallkill-valley-times/wallkill-valley-times/stories/first-reformed-church-hosts-its-first-easter-egg-hunt,77679]

For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly [i.e. they do things for the money], and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
-Philippians 3:18-19

This is what I meant earlier when I said they took a "community-center approach," because to them, it is about serving the community, not serving Jesus Christ. Of course, those things do not have to be mutually exclusive, I understand, but providing paganism to the community is not serving them, nor is it serving Jesus Christ.

The only thing it is doing is gaining noteriety from the community (which is why they called the local media to cover a story on them), so they can get attendance, which gives them access to more money through tithe. Tithe is completely unbiblical in the New Testament Church, and if anyone wants to learn more about that, I would recommend my article "Tithe is Not a Christian Requirement" here at creationliberty.com (keyword search 'tithe'), and in that, I provide more details about the "storehouse tithing" doctrine, which is a false doctrine that was started by the Wesleyans at the turn of the 20th century after they got themselves in a bunch of unbiblical debt because they attempted to gain noteriety and money by hosting these same types of carnal community events.

The following image is an Easter egg hunt hosted by Grace Community Church in Noblesville, in my home state of Indiana. They teach false doctrine on repentance, teaching that it means to "turn from sin" or "change one's mind" rather than it's Biblical definition of "grief and godly sorrow of sins."

(See WSBT-TV, "Indiana church holds 30,000 Easter Egg Hunt," Apr 1, 2024, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfFp8r77HeI])

Because they teach that one must repent to be saved (which is correct), they falsely teach repentance as "conversion" (which is incorrect), or in other words, they are preaching one must convert (i.e. turn from sin) to be saved, which is a works-based false doctrine. The ironic part about it is that the leavened pastor of this congregation has taught the following, and this comes from his sermon notes on their website:
"In OT, 'repent' was the favored word of the prophets with the goal of calling the people of God away from idolatry to faithfulness to YHWH."
-David Bell, "Repentance and Faith," Grace Community Church, Aug 24, 2014, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://gracechurch.us/sermons/repentance-and-faith]

And yet, despite this, the pastor and those listening in agreement continue in idolatry by hosting pagan egg hunts, of which they have no Biblical mandate or justification for doing. However, pagans have a reason why they highly revere these things, and the following quote is from a neo-pagan who trains others in witchcraft: "EGG is the source of life and the concealment of mystery... Eggs are also symbols of rebirth and regeneration. Along with the hare, the egg appears as a symbol in the cult of Ostara, a spring goddess. These figures were later adopted into the Easter celebration of Christianity as the "Easter Bunny" and decorated eggs. Among the Druids was a belief in the Cosmic Egg of the Serpent, symbolized by the sea-urchin fossil. The connection of the egg and the serpent appears earlier among the ancient Egyptians as the Cosmic Egg of the Sun god Ra. The theme also appears in Greek mythology related to the egg of Orphism, where the egg is the symbol of the mystery of life, creation, and resurrection."
-Raven Grimassi, Encyclopedia of Wicca and Witchcraft, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2000, p. 135, ISBN: 9781567182576; Image from same source

Once again, I need to emphasize that God told us not to learn the ways of the heathen to adopt them:

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
-Jeremiah 10:2

And yet, these people, claiming to be of Christ (while preaching a false gospel on salvation) are spending a huge amount of time and money to do the same idolatry that 3,000 Hebrews were doing that resulted in them being executed:

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
-Exodus 32:4-7

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
-Exodus 32:22-28

We Christians ought to care about the lack of care. We should be concerned about the lack of concern by those who claim to be of Christ, and if they want to follow blindly and blissfully ignorant after the world, then let them follow the world, but if they are unwilling to confess the truth, they have no part with Christ's faithful church.

And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
-Luke 6:39

How can we teach our children about sanctification (i.e. separation unto a holy use) for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ if we have immersed ourselves into the traditions of witches? Could we immerse ourselves in fornication and adultery while teaching our children about sanctification unto Jesus Christ? If not, why would churchgoers ever believe that they could do it with idolatry and paganism? Their only defense is to repeat their regurgitated excuse, "To me, it's all about Jesus," so they can justify idolatry and worship of pagan gods to be "holy" so they do not have to give up the worldly pleasures they love.

If you thought 30,000 eggs was a lot of investment, here in Indiana, another church building, Living Hope Church, used to hold a 200,000 egg hunt at Lake County Fairgrounds, involving multiple helicopters dropping eggs from the sky. This church-ianity conglomerate (half of which is made up of fat, female so-called "pastors," who have no leadership authority in the church of Christ, 1Ti 2:12) claim that this insane amount of time and money is to bring "the hope, love and purpose of God to all people," and once again, we have churchgoers thinking they can use pagan carnival games as a means of "sharing the love of God," when in reality, they preach a false gospel and set a horrible example.
(See Living Hope Church, "The Midwest's Largest Easter Egg Hunt! Easter Eggstravaganza," retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180601213951/http://www.lhcweb.org/easter-eggstravaganza/])

It is not just ignorance, it is WILLFUL ignorance, or rather, they are being stupid on purpose. They want to be ignorant of the truth so they can continue doing whatever pleases their flesh, and this is because, although they honor Jesus Christ with their lips, their hearts are far from Him.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
-Matthew 15:8

These are willingly ignorant that they profaning the name of Christ in service to the pagan sun god.



 

The title of this chapter might seem like hyperbole (i.e. exaggeration) to the average reader, but as we will see, it is based on the foundation of pagan tradition, and the foolish actions of churchgoers who cover their eyes and ears to avoid correction. In the first chapter of this book, we learned about the word origins of Easter, and that it contains the word 'east', which refers to the direction in which the sun rises.

"Old English east, eastan (adj., adv.) 'east, easterly, eastward;' easte (n.), from Proto-Germanic *aust- 'east,' literally 'toward the sunrise' (source also of Old Frisian ast "east," aster "eastward," Dutch oost Old Saxon ost, Old High German ostan, German Ost, Old Norse austr "from the east")... The east is the direction in which dawn breaks."
-See "east," Etymology Online Dictionary, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=easter]

Easter's name is centered around the sun coming up over the horizon, which is a reference to the sun god's conception and birth in pagan lore. Of course, churchgoers will argue that just because the name refers to the rising sun does not automatically make them sun worshipers, but we need look no further than the special "sunrise services" that are held every year on Easter morning.

It is quite common for church building organizations to schedule their congregations to come out before dawn (on the first Sunday morning after the first full moon of the Spring Equinox), while it is still dark, to watch the sun rise. For example, in North Carolina, this congregation of churchgoers met at a graveyard (which is ironically fitting) to pay homage to the sun, while they claimed with their mouths they were there to "honor Jesus." (See Holly Meyer, "Easter is March 31 this year. Here's why many Christians will wake up before sunrise to celebrate," Associated Press, Mar 29, 2024, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://apnews.com/article/easter-christians-sunrise-services-jesus-resurrection-369324a6e9561da528b46c080103bd93])

What many churchgoers today do not understand is that the Lord rebuked the Jews for doing the same thing:

He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
-Ezekiel 8:13

God told Ezekiel to turn and look at the great abominations of the Jews. As we learned in the introduction to this book, an abomination is something that God hates with the utmost hatred.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
-Ezekiel 8:14

God brought Ezekiel to the Temple, at the north gate, which is where sacrifices to the Lord were offered, making it a greater offense to have idolatry in this area. The women had no business being in this place doing what they were doing, and worse still, they were "weeping for Tammuz," who was a fertility god of the Sumerians.

According to myth, Tammuz was the lover of the goddess Inanna, who is the same as Ishtar (or Easter). Inanna descended to the underworld, died, and resurrected from the dead, but to live, she had to provide a substitute, and that substitute was her lover Tammuz, who was dragged into the underworld forever; thereby, a month-long, springtime "weeping for Tammuz" pagan tradition was implemented, and was mostly performed by women.

Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
-Ezekiel 8:15

The abominations of what comes next are even more hated by the Lord than what was just described.

And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
-Ezekiel 8:16

The priests of the Temple stood on the porch leading up to the Temple, and turned their backs to the altar, which was their duty to oversee, a responsibility given to them by God, so they might instead turn their faces towards the rising sun. The reason they turned to face the sun is because they were giving religious adoration and veneration to it, which was strictly forbidden in the law.

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
-Deuteronomy 4:19

worship (v): to adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration
(See 'worship', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

Does that sound familiar yet?
(See Holly Meyer, "Easter is March 31 this year. Here's why many Christians will wake up before sunrise to celebrate," Associated Press, Mar 29, 2024, retrieved Apr 4, 2025, [https://apnews.com/article/easter-christians-sunrise-services-jesus-resurrection-369324a6e9561da528b46c080103bd93])

Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
-Ezekiel 8:17

Should these things be reckoned to be "a light thing," or in other words, small matters of little importance? Churchgoers certainly seem to have that apathetic philosophy, adopting an attitude that no one should dare question them, and in the vast majority of cases, they certainly refuse to question themselves. The corrupt pastors of these institutions have lifted themselves up to a position of high importance, have taken money from the poor to fill their own pockets (we will cover more on that in chapter seven), angered the Lord under the pretense of "praise and worship," and "put the branch to their nose," which was a way of saying that the bad branches that would normally be put to the fire are instead given great importance.

Churchgoers today are no different than the Jews in the days of Ezekiel. They commit abominations, disguise them as "holy" rituals, and they care nothing for the offenses they do against God.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.
-John 14:15

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
-1 John 5:2-3

Please do not misunderstand my argument because there is nothing wrong with going outside to watch the beauty of a sunrise, but why do churchgoers go out to do it on Easter Sunday? They claim that they do it for "Jesus," and therefore, they are doing it for divine honor, meaning that they are turning the sunrise into worship.

worship (v): to adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration
(See 'worship', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

The sun is being given divine honors and supreme respect because it is said to be "all about Jesus." That is worship.

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
-Deuteronomy 17:3

The Bible tells us that we can learn from the rising sun, and understand that the Lord God is due all divine honor.

That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
-Isaiah 45:6

However, that does not mean we were intended to create sun worship rituals in the name of Jesus, nor were we intended to adopt rituals from those who worshiped the sun. If (as churchgoers often argue) these Easter rituals are truly "all about Jesus," I would challenge them to show me where Jesus instituted them.

Where did Christ's apostles institute or even remotely suggest any of these things? The problem with modern day churchgoers is that they will take anything they want to do, slap a "Jesus" sticker on it, and claim it is "holy."

In fact, nowadays, some church building organizations do not have a leavened pastor come out to give his dime-a-dozen sermon during the sunrise. Sometimes, they just play or sing music and watch the sun rise, and thus, they are not doing anything different than the abominations of the Jews in the days of Ezekiel.
(See Salem Congregation, "2024 Moravian Easter Sunrise Service," Apr 5, 2024, retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://youtu.be/VOP16lvEtmM?t=2783])

But even if they do preach some sermon, why is any of this necessary? They did not find these traditions in Scripture, they did not learn them from the apostles of Christ, but rather, these were invented by pagans who first practiced these traditions, and adopted by churchgoers so that, by performing the traditiosn, they will feel like they are "holy."

Churchgoers like to argue that there is nothing wrong with songs of praise to God at any time for any reason, but that is not what God has said:

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will
not smell in your solemn assemblies.
-Amos 5:21

The Lord said this about the feast days, which would include the Passover feast, and this is because the Jews used these rituals to make themselves look and feel holy, just like churchgoers do with Easter. Therefore, when they performed their rituals, made their sacrifices, and burned their incense, the Lord would have no part with it.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
-Amos 5:22

They claimed with their mouths to regard the Lord, but in their hearts, they had no regard to His commandments.

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
-Mark 7:6

This means that, despite the fact that the Jews said they loved God with all their hearts, and despite the fact that they sang songs and gave offerings, there was no repentance (i.e. godly sorrow of sin) in their hearts. They continue in their idolatrous and other sinful practices, had no consideration for the true prophets and teachers of God, and therefore, He would not hear their praise and worship music.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
-Amos 5:22-23

There is a problem with pagan idolatry among churchgoers in the same regard as there were many violations against the commandments of God among the Jews, but instead of acknowledging the truth and turning from them, they stubbornly pride themselves in the pagan rituals they do, and try to justify it by their songs. Paul (via the Holy Ghost) taught us that all Scripture was given to us for instruction and correction, so why is it that so many churchgoers do not care about what God has said in His Word concerning what pleases Him and what does not?

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
-2 Timothy 3:16-17

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
-1 Samuel 15:23

One of the ways we can determine that, despite all the songs they sing to Him, churchgoers have no regard to Jesus Christ, is by their practice of "Lent," which is a ritual that rejects the commandments of Christ.



 

If what I have written so far is not offensive enough to the average churchgoer who pride themselves in their works, this chapter will probably be doubly so. However, I would remind Christians that Jesus made it very clear to us that when the spiritual things of this world are founded on corrupt principles, they will bring forth corrupt fruit.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
-Matthew 7:17

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
-Isaiah 5:20-21

lent (n): an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches
(See 'lent', Random House Dictionary, 2025, [dictionary.com]; See also Collins English Dictionary, 10th Edition, William Collins Sons & Co, 2012)

Lent is claimed to be a following of Christ in the sense of participation in a 40-day fast, just as Jesus did in the wilderness:

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
-Matthew 4:1-2

For those of you who know nothing about the details, you might think it impressive that people would be willing to fast all food for 40 days every year, but that is not what they do. According to the Catholic website, Hallow, they do a very small calorie cut, and forbid eating meat for one day out of the week:
"On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, fasting rules allow Catholics to eat only one full meal and two smaller meals which, combined, would not equal a single normal meal. Additionally, Catholics may not eat meat on these two days—or on any Friday during Lent."
-Stephen Spiewak, "Lent Fasting Rules: Catholic Rules for Fasting During Lent in 2025," retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://hallow.com/blog/lent-fasting-rules/]

The word origin of the word 'fast' meant to close or secure, which is why we use the word 'fasten' when speaking of something that needs to be tightened. Therefore, the general concept behind the word 'fast' is to close off the entryway of the mouth to food:
"Old English fæst 'firmly fixed, steadfast, constant; secure; enclosed, watertight; strong, fortified,' probably from Proto-Germanic *fastu- 'firm, fast'"
-See "fast," Etymology Online Dictionary, retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fast]

Modern definitions of the word 'fast' first state that it is an stop of the intake of food, and they add on a secondary definition that is now in common usage, which is a "lessening" of food:

fast (v): 1. to abstain from all food
2. to eat only sparingly or of certain kinds of food, especially as a religious observance
(See 'fast', Random House Dictionary, 2025, [dictionary.com]; See also Collins English Dictionary, 10th Edition, William Collins Sons & Co, 2012)

The first definition makes sense, while the second definition is vague and undefined, which makes it mostly nonsensical, and this is no insult to the dictionary authors, because they are simply repeating definitions in common usage. The problem is that when using the second definition, it comes down to a subjective interpretation of what is fasting, and by that definition, a man could simply eat one less french fry than his normal intake and call it a "fast."

I have seen this lazy, apathetic attitude in churchgoers who want to look like they are making effort, so they can appear "holy," while doing almost nothing. So, for instance, I have seen churchgoers say they "fast" chocolate, meaning that they will intake no chocolate for 40 days, or they will "fast" television, meaning that they will not watch TV for 40 days (which, based on the many sinful and false things that are shown on TV, they ought not to do anyway), or something else pampered Americans think they are "sacrificing for Jesus," and these pathetic versions of so-called "fasting" become a symbol of their so-called "righteousness" in the sight of men.

The Council of Nicaea, who were made up of many leavened churchgoers that wanted to gain favor and prestige in Rome via Constantine (who was a pagan, not a convert to Christianity who came to repentance for the remission of his sins), suggested that some religious cults who claimed to be Christian practiced 40 day fast rituals. Constantine started the tradition with six weeks (36 days), and later in 6th century, Pope Gregory is most commonly credited with establishing the 40-day ritual they call "Ash Wednesday."

Catholics (and their various denominations) have a Palm Sunday ritual where leftover palm leaves are burned, and the ashes saved for use on their Ash Wednesday ritual. The ashes are used to make symbols on the foreheads of their peritioners, as described by Hallow:
"It is typical to receive ashes on your forehead in the Sign of the Cross. Similar to taking communion at Mass, you usually process toward the altar to get ashes."
-Cate Von Dohlen, "Ash Wednesday 2025 - The First Day of Lent," retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://hallow.com/blog/ash-wednesday/]

So why do they claim to do it? Eastside Catholic School answers this for us:
"Ashes are a sign of physical death, as in 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust.' We began as dust (a joyless and lifeless existence), and our bodies will return to dust until we are raised up by Christ. By receiving ashes and keeping them on, we publicly proclaim our intent to die to our worldly desires and live even more in Christ's image, which we focus on during the season of 'rebirth' that is Lent (a Latin term for 'Spring')."
-Eastside Catholic, "Why Do Catholics Put Ashes On Our Heads On Ash Wednesday?" retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://www.eastsidecatholic.org/news/story-details/~board/campus-ministry/post/why-do-catholics-put-ashes-on-our-heads-on-ash-wednesday-1617224950010]

In summary, those who perform this ritual claim that the ash cross symbol they put on their foreheads is an outward sign of inward repentance, and it is also a symbol of their participation in the Lenten fast. Although this is a Catholic ritual, many non-Catholic, church-ianity institutions have also adopted this practice, but none of them are following the doctrine of Jesus Christ because He told us not to do these things:

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
-Matthew 6:16-18

Washing one's face and anointing one's head was a sign of joy in Jewish society, but the purpose of teaching this, as Jesus said, was that men would NOT appear to others to fast, that they might gain the approval and applause of men. So not only are they not fasting in any real sense (only claiming to fast to gain church-ianity credit for doing a "holy" tradition), but they are also rejecting the commandments of Christ David King was a 19th-century author who was part of the Restoration Movement and Churches of Christ (which were an anti-denominational group [as they rightly should be] that had a few doctrinal issues, but were much more faithful to the New Testament Scriptures, especially in rejecting the pagan celebrations of pseudo-Christian cults), and he wrote on this subect:
"Our State Church [i.e. Anglican Church of England, not that he was part of it, but that it is the official state religion of England], like its Mother of Rome, is still busy with Lent superstitions, derived from Paganism... The forty days abstinence of Lent was borrowed from the worship of a Babylonian Goddess. The Yezidis, or devil worshippers of Koordistan, still observe it. Humboldt shows that Pagan Mexicans observed a Lent of forty days, beginning three days after the vernal equinox, in honour of the sun. The Egyptian Lent of forty days was in commemoration of Osiris. To allure the Pagans to an already corrupted Christianity, Rome took measures to amalgamate the Christian [i.e. Catholic] and Pagan Festivals. This was mainly accomplished by Dionysius the Little, about A.D. 525. The change of the calendar, in regard to Easter, brought into the so-called church the grossest Lent corruptions and superstitions; such as we see not in this country, nor in these days, and could not look upon without shame."
-David King, The Ecclesiastical Observer: Fortnightly Journal and Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Jan 1, 1876, p. 83

King reports the same thing I discovered, which was that Dionysius borrowed from pagan traditions in Alexandria, Egypt for the timing of Easter, but the same applies to why the Catholic Church changed their abominable celebration from 36 days to 40. This was all modeled after pagan lore, to bring pagans to the Catholic temples and get them to pay money for Catholic religious services (such as indulgences, which I covered in more details in my book, Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism), and the Catholic Church had no hesitation to adopt pagan ideology because their religion was founded on Roman paganism in the early 4th century.

The Catholic Church uses the 40-day fast of Jesus as an excuse to justify their tradition, but it has nothing to do with Jesus fasting 40 days, nor do they actually fast 40 days, as I mentioned earlier in this chapter. Gerald Massey was a 19th century Egyptologist, and he pointed out the same connection:
"In Egypt, there was a time of fasting for forty days during the Egyptian Lent. The mourning and the fasting naturally followed the suffering and the death of Osiris... But when the death was shifted to Easter, to be celebrated in accordance with the Jewish Passover, to which it was hitched on, the long time of fasting remained as in Egypt,"
-Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World: A Work of Reclamation and Restitution in Twelve Books, Vol. 2, T. F. Unwin, 1907, p. 746

In childishness, churchgoers look at the 40 days of "Lent," then look at the 40 days Jesus fasted in the Bible, and conclude that Lent is a holy celebration of Jesus. In logic, this is called a "conflation" fallacy, or some readers may know it as "comparing apples to oranges" and calling them the same thing.

The argument looks like this:

A has quality X, and B has quality X.
Therefore, A and B are the same.
That might be confusing for some readers, so let's look at an example:

Watermelons are green, and lettuce is green.
Therefore, watermelons and lettuce are fruit.
As you can see, a conflation argument is not sound reasoning, and invokes a foolish pattern of thinking that makes no sense. We cannot classify lettuce as a fruit just because it has the same coloration as a watermelon.

Likewise, churchgoers are arguing:

Jesus fasted 40 days, and Lent is 40 days.
Therefore, Lent is all about Jesus.
I can completely understand churchgoers getting fooled into thinking this way because people in religious cults often lie to gain converts. However, once this has been explained to them, and then continue to believe in the pagan ideology anyway, despite the fact that it has no Biblical justification, we can know we are dealing with someone who is foolish, and glories in themselves for that which they should be ashamed.

For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
-Phillipians 3:18-19

fool (n): one who is destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding; an idiot; often used for a wicked or depraved person; one who acts contrary to sound wisdom in his moral deportment; one who follows his own inclinations, who prefers trifling and temporary pleasures to the service of God and eternal happiness
(See 'fool', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 9, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:
but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
-Proverbs 12:15

I once received a local church-ianity bulletin in the mail, advertising their pagan worship of Lent:
"The Waldron Area Ministries invites you to experience Lent...
March 23rd - at Waldron Baptist Church, Preacher: Rev. Brandon Sutton (Blue Ridge Christian Union Church)
March 30th - at Rays Crossing Christian union Church, Preacher: Rev. Marcy Patrick [unbiblical FEMALE pastor] (Waldron United Methodist Church)
April 6th - at Little Blue River Baptist Church, Preacher: Rev. Alan Small (Interim at Waldron Baptist Church)
April 13 - at Waldron United Methodist Church, Preacher: Community Choir Cantata - "The Day He Wore My Crown"
April 18 (Good Friday) - at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Musical Drama"
-Waldron Communicator, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 2014

Outside of our church, am unaware of a single church building in our county that does not participate in this pagan garbage. However, it is fitting since they commonly do unbiblical things in their various cults, like how they are all 501c3 incorporated (which requires signing a contract that denounces Christ as the head of the church), they call themselves "Reverend" (which means "holy," even though only the Lord God is called reverend in Scripture, Psa 111:9), and they bring in female so-called "pastors," despite the fact that female pastors are not tolerated in Christ's church. (1Ti 2:12)
(Read 501c3: The Devil's Church and "Titles Are Unbiblical in the Church" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)





 

Not only are the date of Easter and the time frame of Lent both based on pagan traditions, the time line of Easter weekend makes no sense. Jesus told us that, after His crucifixion, His flesh would remain dead for three days and three nights:

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
-Matthew 12:40

Paul later confirmed the same:

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
-1 Corinthians 15-3-4

Although there is exists no documentation to determine the origin of the phrase "Good Friday," it is a day that Catholics signify to be the day of Christ's crucifixion, but the entire celebration is based on paganism, not on Scripture, so it does not matter what they want to call it. The point I want to make is that they claim it is the day that Jesus died and was buried in a tomb.

The crucifixion of Jesus began in the third hour:

And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
-Mark 15:25

According to Jewish terminology, the new date rolls over at 6:00 PM each night (similar to how the date rolls over at midnight for us), then the work day begins at 6:00 AM, and each hour is counted from that point to determine the hour of the day. So the third hour was about 9:00 AM, which means Jesus was on the cross about this time, and hung on the cross suffering until the ninth hour, which was about 3:00 PM.

Now from the sixth hour [i.e. noon] there was darkness over all the land [i.e. dark cloud cover] unto the ninth hour. [i.e. 3:00 PM] And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?... Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
-Matthew 27:46-50

Joseph of Arimathaea then went to Pilate (who had allowed the Jews to do this despicable deed) to take the body of Jesus to be buried in a tomb. This was done in the evening on that day same day, likely by around the 12th hour, or sometime around 6:00 PM.

When the even was come [roughly at or before 6:00 PM], there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
-Matthew 27:57-60

Now that we have a timeline, let's do so basic math. I am sure that if you are reading this book, you know how to count to three, so start with Friday evening, and use this chart I made to help you count:
If Jesus died on Friday evening, then Saturday evening would be day 1, Sunday evening would be the end of day 2, and Monday evening would be the end of day 3, when Jesus should rise from the dead. This begs the question: Why is everyone celebrating Jesus rising from the dead on Sunday morning, when they should be celebrating it on Monday evening?

I hope readers are starting to catch on, and understand the answer to this question is simple: Easter is not about Jesus Christ. Easter is about adhering to religious traditions, taken from vile paganism, and molded by the antichrist Catholic Church.

In a hilarious attempt to justify this, Ken Ham's corrupt Answers in Genesis ministry published an article by Paul Taylor (who later moved on to work with Eric Hovind's corrupt Creation Today ministry), in which he pointed out what I said earlier, that the date for the Jewish calendar rolls over at 6:00 PM, and by borrowing a chart from false preacher Matt Slick of the corrupt CARM (Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry), claims that this accounts for the day discrepancy. The following is a DECEPTIVE chart, and I will demonstrate that in a moment, but first, let's read the argument:
"This table indicates that Jesus died on Good Friday; that was day one. In total, day one includes the day and the previous night, even though Jesus died in the day. So, although only part of Friday was left, that was the first day and night to be counted. Saturday was day two. Jesus rose in the morning of the Sunday. That was day three. Thus, by Jewish counting, we have three days and nights, yet Jesus rose on the third day."
-Paul F. Taylor, "Three Days and Nights," Answers in Genesis, June 29, 2009, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/resurrection/three-days-and-nights]; See also Matt Slick, "How long was Jesus dead in the tomb?" CARM, Dec 2, 2008, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [https://carm.org/bible-difficulties/how-long-was-jesus-dead-in-the-tomb/]

This is completely wrong, and the only way that Taylor could come to this conclusion is if he IGNORES the Scripture. We have already seen this at the beginning of the chapter, but let's read it one more time:

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
-Matthew 12:40

This means that the body of Jesus would be lifeless for three days and three nights, but that is not what Taylor just told us. He told us that the missing time was counted while Jesus was still alive, and if that were true, then that would make Jesus a liar, which is what Taylor is doing (whether he realizes it or not) in order to justify his happy-go-lucky funtime celebration for all his audience members so they can continue in pagan tradition without having to change themselves for Christ.

This chart by Matt Slick (whose last name is fitting for his scam operation he calls a "ministry"), is deceptive because when you glance at it, you see three days, right? This is because Slick attempted to include the entire previous night, when Jesus was arrested and brought before Pilate, when He was at trial, and all the time He was hanging on the cross (still alive) as part of the "three days and three nights."


You can see more deception by the labels that Slick put at the bottom of the chart, calling them "Crucifixion," "Sabbath," and "Resurrection," even though those three labels have nothing to do with the fact that Jesus said His body would remain dead for three days and nights. It is the death of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus that are the start and finish to that three days and nights timeline, but Slick deceptively renames and miscategorizes these things to justify his tradition.

The Bible tells us that Jesus died at about 3:00 PM, so if they want to claim that He died on Friday, then why not celebrate His resurrection on the day of His resurrection, which would be Monday at about 3:00 PM? It is because that upsets the narrative of the tradition, and in the hearts and minds of these false preachers, they will twist and distort the Scriptures, making Jesus into a liar, and worship and serve the creature (i.e. the created thing, like the tradition) more than the Creator.

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
-Romans 1:25

There are many other so-called "Christian" ministries, schools, and blogs who teach the same things, while some claim that you should ignore "nonsensical" preachers like me who tell you the truth about the pagan connotation because, they claim, they are honoring "Passover," and that is what Easter is all about. This is another lie because Passover and Easter are not the same thing, modern corrupt bible versions conflate the two celebrations into one thing, and Passover is NOT a Christian celebration.



 

In chapter four, we learned about the "conflation fallacy," which is an error of logic that attempts to take two things that are different and call them the same. (e.g. An orange and a basketball may share the same shape and color, but are not the same thing.) Likewise, Easter and Passover are often called the same thing, but they are not the same thing by a long shot, and sadly, many pastors often misuse the Greek language in their willful ignorance in attempt to justify their pagan traditions.

To understand the fallacy of many preachers, let's first take a look at Acts 12 in the King James Bible (KJB):

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
-Acts 12:1-4

Herod Agrippa hated Christ and His doctrine, and therefore had no favor for Christians, so He killed one of the primary disciples of Christ, and because of their wickedness and hatred, the Jews rejoiced. Because Herod was cheered on for slaughtering Christians without a cause, he had Peter arrested so he could publicly execute him, but there was a problem with the timing because it was the days of unleavened bread, which was sacred to the Jews, and the Easter celebration was coming up, so he decided to hold Peter in prison until the feast days were finished.

Many preachers, in books and websites all over the world, have blasted the KJB for its use of the word 'Easter' in Acts 12:4. For example, author Mark Long said:
"The word 'Easter' is only found in one scripture in the entire King James Bible. Other translations have thankfully corrected this mistake."
-Mark L. Long, Misplaced Loyalty, Xlibris Corporation, 2009, p. 157, ISBN: 9781441589118

Phil Sandilands also writes his opinion that the KJB is wrong:
"But the NKJV [New King James Version] translators wanted to make necessary corrections in vocabulary and grammar too. They and most other modern translators recognize that 'Easter' was an inaccurate translation of pascha in Acts 12:4, and they use the word Passover instead."
-Phil Sandilands, "Easter in the Bible? Translation Error!" Life Hope & Truth, retrieved Apr 11, 2025, [https://lifehopeandtruth.com/life/plan-of-salvation/holy-days-vs-holidays/origin-of-easter/easter-in-the-bible/]

And the aforementioned false preacher Matt Slick parrots the same:
"The KJV is not the perfect English translation upon which no improvement could ever be made. Easter may be a rather benign translation error here, but it is still an error, and it is certainly an improvement to replace Easter with the proper word 'Passover,' just as modern English translations all do."
-Matt Slick, "Easter and the KJV," Oct 31, 2018, retrieved Apr 11, 2025, [https://carm.org/king-james-onlyism/easter-and-the-kjv/]

The word 'Passover' was not invented until the 16th century by a man named William Tyndale (1494-1536, a Christian martyr executed by his government under the influence of the Catholic Church), who, while working on an English translation of the Bible, created the term 'Passover' because there was no single-word English equivalent at the time. In his translation, Tyndale used the word 'Easter' in Acts 12:
TYNDALE BIBLE: "And when he had caught him he put him in preson and delyvered him to .iiii. quaternios of soudiers to be kepte entendynge after ester to brynge him forth to the people."

Almost no other version in existance, outside of the Tyndale Bible and the King James Bible, uses the word 'Easter' in Acts 12:4. Some of you may be wonder if I am arguing that the majority of bible versions are wrong, and indeed, not only is that what I am arguing, I am also going to show you how to prove the KJB is correct by using the Scriptures to verify it.

Let's begin by looking at the appointed holiday in the Old Testament:

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
-Exodus 12:18

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
-Leviticus 23:5

According to Scripture, the Jews were to kill a lamb and eat it on the celebration day (which Tyndale named) Passover, which was the month of Nisan on the Jewish Calendar, which lasted from the 14th to the 21st, a total of eight days. The Passover was celebrated the first day, and "at even," which was the end of the first day (as we learned in the previous chapter), they were to eat the Passover feast. For the next seven days after that, they were supposed to eat unleavened bread, and that week, the week AFTER Passover, is called the days of unleavened bread.

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even [i.e. in the evening] the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
-Exodus 12:15

So to clarify, the 14th of Nisan is the Passover celebration, and the 15th-21st are the seven days of unleavened bread, or "the feast of unleavened bread." The Bible clearly makes a distinction between the day of Passover, and the days of unleavened bread, and you can cross references these verses in the modern, corrupt bible versions as well because they say mostly the same thing.

This is also contextual subject matter one must know to understand what Paul was talking about in 1st Corinthians 5:

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
-1 Corinthians 5:7-8

This is not saying that we are to observe days and times (Gal 4:9-11), but that the Passover celebration was completed in Christ, and that we should purge out wickedness and iniquity from His Church. With Christ, the Passover is finished, and now we are to be unleavened in Him because the feast of unleavened bread was symbolic (or prophetic) of this dispensation of His church.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
-Leviticus 23:6

Perhaps some people misunderstand this because when they subtract 15 from 21, the result is 6, or (21-15=6), but counting time is different from counting units because when counting time, you have to start from zero. When you start a stopwatch, you will notice it starts from zero, not one, and that is because time requires counting the equadistance between the numbers.


Again, there are eight days represented for this feast, the first day being Passover, and the following seven days being the days of unleavened bread. Now that we have proper contextual knowledge from God's Word, let's go back and analyze Acts 12:4 once more:

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) [i.e. Passover had already passed.] And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
-Acts 12:1-4

At the time Peter was put in prison, the Passover had already passed over because it was the days of unleavened bread. It makes no sense at all that Herod would want to hold Peter in prison until Passover the following year (and place 16 soldiers, or four quaternions, to guard him for an entire year) when he was trying to quickly appease the wrath of the Jews against the Christians and gain political popularity from both Jews and Romans.


The context that is overlooked by modern-day, lukewarm churchgoers and pastors is that Easter was a PAGAN celebration. There was a big deal for most Roman citizens because it was a huge celebration that would have been sullied by a political execution, so Herod (wisely, from his perspective) waited until after the pagan Easter celebration to have Peter publicly executed and appease the Jews.

In attempt to justify Easter as "all about Jesus," some churchgoers argue that the celebration of Passover is the entire eight-days, not just one day. However, those who make that argument are either ignorant of the Scriptures or they are lying because the Bible makes it clear that they are two distinct times; one being the Passover, and other being "the morrow after the passover when they would eat unleavened food:

And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
-Numbers 33:3

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
-Joshua 5:11

One of the most popular arguments churchgoers make is that the Greek word 'pascha' means "Passover," but even though it is true that the word 'pascha' is used in Acts 12:4, the word "Passover" is NOT the proper contextual translation in that passage, which is why William Tyndale did not use it there. The word pascha is used in Scripture 29 times, and of those, 28 are used for "passover," and only one (in Acts 12:4) is used for Easter.

Many scoffing preachers (who hate the KJB more than they will admit aloud) condemn the KJB for translating 'pascha' to mean "Easter" in Acts 12:4, but they often overlook the fact that there is no Greek-equivalent word for Easter. Just as Tyndale had to invent the word 'Passover' to create something that would describe the Hebrew holiday, so did the Greeks.

The word 'pascha' was used to represent the pagan Easter celebration. So because the pagans celebrated Easter after the Spring Equinox, which is roughly the same time the Jews celebrated Passover, the Greeks called the Jewish Passover "pascha."

Some churchgoers have objected to this, claiming that the word 'pascha' is not the Greek word for "Easter." If it is not the Greek word for Easter, then what is the Greek word for Easter? After all, Easter is a widely celebrated event in Greek-speaking countries, so they must have a word for it.

I went to the DeepL website, which is an AI translator, and I typed in the title to this book, Easter: Abomination in Disguise. The following is a screen shot of the translation for it: (See "Easter: Abomination in Disguise" translation, DeepL, retrieved Apr 11, 2025, [https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#en/el/Easter%3A%20Abomination%20in%20Disguise])

As you can see, the word Πάσχα is used for "Easter." For those of you who do not know, the Greek word 'Πάσχα' is Páscha, meaning that if a Greek-speaking person wants to say "Easter," they use the word 'pascha'.

The word 'pascha' is used to describe BOTH the Jewish Passover and the Pagan Easter celebrations. Which definition is used depends on the context in which the word is used, and in Acts 12:4, the word 'pascha' was used to refer to the pagan celebration of Easter, but to acknowledge that would mean that Easter is not a Christian celebration (otherwise, they would have honor Peter instead of arresting him), and thus, churchgoers condemn the King James Bible because they love their pagan traditions more than they love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
-Mark 7:13

If churchgoers want to use erroneous, corrupt, watered-down bible versions, they are free to do as they please. However, if you want a Bible that perfectly preserved by the guiding hand of God, I recommend the King James Bible, and if you want a more in-depth study as to why the King James Bible is far superior to other versions, I would recommend reading my book, Why Christians Should Study the King James Bible, here at creationliberty.com.

The other confusing thing that churchgoers do is confuse Easter with Passover, as if they are the same thing, or that they are in some way related to each other. This is the part that, in my opinion, churchgoers have to shut off their brains to be able to accept it without question.





 

This is a difficult subject to tackle, not because of the subject matter itself, but because it is extremely difficult to find hard numbers from any religious corporation. Because church buildings are not required (via their unbiblical, antichrist 501c3 contracts) to report specified data on Easter Sunday, discovering the truth behind how much money they bring in must be done with some deductive reasoning.
(Read 501c3: The Devil's Church here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

Although Christmas takes the prize for the highest revenue intake of most church buildings (and I cover more details on that in my book Christmas: Rejecting Jesus), Easter has the highest attendance numbers for most church buildings:
"Today, 90% of pastors identify Easter as the day their church has its highest, second-highest or third-highest attendance for worship service."
-Aaron Earls, "Easter Remains High Attendance Day for Most Churches," Lifeway, Mar 26, 2024, retrieved Apr 9, 2025, [https://research.lifeway.com/2024/03/26/easter-remains-high-attendance-day-for-most-churches/]

Of course, this depends on the size and location of the church building (the smaller the congregation, the less likely they are to have extra visitors on Easter Sunday), but Easter is typically the highest attendance, rivaled only by Christmas and Mother's Day. (Because 21st century American society has sadly devolved into feminism and worships women instead of God.) Church building organizations are notorious for hiding their income because publishing those numbers might lead to a loss of revenue, but the opposite is true for attendance, and so although they are vague about their attendance numbers as well, they brag about increased attendance because that can potentially help them grow their popularity, which is good for my research because that can help us roughly determine the increase of money they collect on Easter Sunday.
(Read Feminism: Castrating America here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

According to Pew Research Center, of those Americans who identified as "Christian" in 2024, only about 32% say they attend a church service once or twice per month:
"In Pew Research Center's 2020 NPORS [National Public Opinion Reference Survey], 33% of U.S. adults reported attending religious services at least once or twice a month. That's identical to what we found in the 2023-24 RLS and very similar to the 32% measured in the 2024 NPORS."
-Gregory A. Smith & Alan Cooperman, "Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off," Pew Research Center, retrieved Apr 9, 2025, [https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/decline-of-christianity-in-the-us-has-slowed-may-have-leveled-off/]

However, Gallup polls found that only about 20% of Americans attended a church building service on a weekly basis:
"What percentage of churchgoing people attend regularly depends on your threshold for what you consider regular attendance. If once a week, only 20% of Americans attend church at that rate, down from 32% in 2000. If we lower the threshold to once a month or more, the number of Americans in regular attendance jumps to 41% (this combines all respondents who answered weekly, almost every week, and about once a month in the Gallup survey)."
-Church Trac, "The State of Church Attendance: Trends and Statistics [2025]," retrieved Apr 9, 2025, [https://www.churchtrac.com/articles/the-state-of-church-attendance-trends-and-statistics-2023]

Although the precise numbers are elusive, Gallup research has shown a significant spike in internet searches for the word 'church' during the week of Easter, indicating that roughly 50% more people than normal are looking for a church building to attend for the celebration. When asking Americans if they planned on attending a church service during Easter, more than 60% said "Yes," and so since the number of weekly churchgoers is 20% of Americans, while occasional churchgoers is 32% of Americans, that means Easter Sunday for most church buildings (of medium to large size) brings an increase of anywhere from 50% to 200% of their normal attendance numbers.
(See Noble Kuriakose, "When Easter and Christmas near, more Americans search online for 'church'," Pew Research Center, Apr 18, 2014, retrieved Apr 9, 2025, [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/18/when-easter-and-christmas-near-more-americans-search-online-for-church/]; See also Frank Newport, "Easter Season Finds a Religious, Largely Christian, Nation," Gallup, Mar 21, 2008, retrieved Apr 8, 2025, [https://news.gallup.com/poll/105544/easter-season-finds-religious-largely-christian-nation.aspx])

We can see more evidence of this by simply look at Easter attendance in photos of church buildings on an Easter Sunday. The following photo shows a Catholic temple in Washington DC, and if you look closely the pews are packs with people shoulder-to-shoulder. (See Diane Cameron, "We live in a Good Friday world, but we are Easter people," Baltimore Sun, Mar 31, 2024, [https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/31/easter-people/])

I have attended a variety of church buildings during the Easter celebration in the early years of my life, and it has been my experience in all of them that Easter Sunday had almost twice the attendees show up, if not more than that depending on the size and location of the church building. Please note that these buildings are constructed to have empty space for visitors, because if every seat was filled every week, they would have to build a bigger building to house everyone, so they definitely take in an overload.

According to research done by Church Salary, after analyzing a database of 14,000 church buildings from 2018-2020, they found the average annual per person giving was $2,297. This is just an overall average, and we should keep in mind that, typically, most people give less than that, while there are a few more wealthy donators that provide the majority of what is given, but it averages out to $2,297.
(See Aaron M. Hill, "Average Per Person Giving in the Church," Church Salary, May 16, 2024, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [https://www.churchsalary.com/content/articles/average-per-person-giving-in-church.html])

Some readers might see where I am going with this, to analyze average giving with attendance spikes, but there are some other factors we need to first consider. Nucleus published a report after analyzing over 600 million dollars of donations, they found that the average donation is $210, but keep in mind that they found only 5.6% of all donations comes from weekly giving, while only 18.2% comes from monthly giving, and biggest whopper of all is that more than 75% of all giving comes from those who give a one-time annual gift.
(See Brady Shearer, "Church Giving Statistics 2025 Report," Nucleus, Jan 23, 2025, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [https://www.nucleus.church/blog/church-giving-statistics])

Of course, Christmas is almost always the highest rate of giving, but Easter also pulls in quite a bit because as attendance numbers increase, so do donations, especially during a time when people really want to feel "holy." The spike in giving can also vary depending on whether or not the church building in question puts on a show, with lights, music, and actors to reenact the resurrection of Jesus, because people tend to give more when they are well entertained, as proven by countless street performers over thousands of years.

(See David R. Lutman, "Easter takes center stage at Bates Memorial Baptist Church in 'The Passion Live'," Courier Journal, Mar 31, 2018, retrieved Apr 10, 2025, [https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2018/03/31/bates-memorial-passion-live-easter-2018/471406002/])

Putting on a ridiculous show like this is financially beneficial for the church building organization because they most often get volunteers to do all the work, from stage hands to performers, and therefore, outside of utilities, they have no expenses. Of course, most church buildings do not charge a ticket price to watch the show, so we cannot readily compare it to a normal stage production, but they know that people are more likely to give money after being entertained and made to feel "righteous" for showing up to the event on this particular "Resurrection Day."

So we now have double to triple the normal audience, who come for the express purpose of feeling "righteous" by going to a church building on a particular day that they are told is a "holy day" (i.e. holiday), and they are presented with carefully rehearsed music and/or shows. Therefore, it is not a stretch of the imagination to conclude that this is one of the biggest money-making events of the year for the average church building, which is why they put so much time and energy into it.

If the average donation amount is $210, as research indicates that it is, that amount likely goes up on average for a "holy day" like Easter, either from excitement or a sense of obligation. For a smaller church building, they might have 100-200 attendees, and with increased giving, and coercion to give through the unbiblical mandates of tithe (i.e. tithe has never been a requirement of the New Testament Church), having a intake of five digits (i.e. over $10,000) would not be surprising, and for larger church buildings, there is the potential for six digits because, as we saw earlier, most giving is done in single donations on a big event once or twice per year.

The name of Jesus is not only being corrupted by churchgoers because they inappropriately tie Him to a pagan festival, but pastors are using Christ's holy name (and His sacrifice on the cross) as a pretense to gain the applause of men and fatten their wallets.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
-Matthew 23:27

 

This book started out as a shorter article I wrote in 2012. A couple of years later, a witch named Patricia wrote a letter to me about my expose on Easter:
"Hello, Mr. Johnson, my name is Patricia and I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all the research and time you spent learning the true origins of these 'Christian' holidays, and then making the effort to get this information to a wider audience. It is rather frustrating to see so many Christians celebrating Christ with all these pagan symbols that they don't understand. I myself am familiar with much of this information, so it is quite a relief to see it posted on a website such as this, as opposed to only seeing it on pro-pagan blogs where Christians rarely venture. It's also nice to see a web article where you know the author is educated enough on the topic to post the citations where he got all the information instead of merely typing his opinion and making others guess whether or not his information is credible."

The sad part about this email is that this is a compliment I rarely get from people claiming to be of Christ, but even one who practices witchcraft acknowledges that I put in the time to understand the fullness of the subject matter. Of course, in the end, she will hate me as much as churchgoers hate me because (just as I do with churchgoers) I use the Word of God to condemn their false religion, but at the very least, she can acknowledge that, from the perspective of pagans, my research is accurate, and the sad thing is that she is acting more reasonable in this regard than do most people who claim to be of Christ.

"Still, there is something that I am a bit confused about and wanted to ask you. The rituals that these people once performed all seemed to stem from the idea of rebirth and the returning of the light. They celebrate with brightly colored eggs and bunny rabbits to symbolize fertility and new life coming into the world, when all the animals would have their babies and the plants grew green again after the long winter. I just wanted to know why those things were so bad to celebrate."

For those of us who are of Christ, and have taken the time to study the Scriptures carefully, it is a simple thing that we ought not to have anything to do with idolatry. To venerate anything (i.e. to give something the highest degree of awe, sacredness, and reverence) that is not the Lord God is to commit idolatry, but churchgoers and pagans alike have the same blindness to idolatry, the only difference being that pagans openly do it, while churchgoers try to hide it behind the holy name of Jesus Christ.

This witch has no understanding that giving divine honors to the creation is to deify nature itself, which is an offense against the Creator of the creation. It would be the equivalent of a baby giving obeisance to the crib instead of the parents, but because Patricia rejects her Creator, and rebels against Him, she sees no problem esteeming the crib.

Instead of looking at nature to gain understanding of the authority and kindness of God, she worships it:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
-Romans 1:20-23

When the Day of Wrath comes, in which the Lord God will severly punish all those who rejected His grace, and (through their rebellious and lackidaisical actions) mocked his longsuffering (see Revelation chapters eight and nine for more details), it will be justified for many reasons, but one of those is that they held the truth in unrighteousness. This means they had capability to see His handiwork and understand His majesty, but became unthankful, and turned their thoughts to the vain imaginations they invented to justify their sin, declaring themselves to be wise and understanding, while rejecting the truth in their willful stupidity.

Some readers may see where Patricia's email is going next because she did not write this to me as a simple inquiry, but rather, as an accusation to defend her pagan ideology. However, what I found fascinating about her letter, and why I appreciated her writing this to me, is that she tried to justify her idolatry precisely the same way that churchgoers do:
"The people back then feared the cold winters, feared there would not be enough food to make it through, feared that the cold would kill them, their family, and their friends. Wouldn't a celebration of returning abundance and warmth be called for? I just don't understand why that was so wicked, and why pagans where evil."

Again, it is because idolatry is sin, and that is because it reduces the power and glory of the Living God to a lower position than His creation. For example, if a man walked into a king's palace, and gave no heed to the king, nor did they have any honor for him, and they ignored his rules, doing and saying anything they wanted without regard to his commandments, how would he react?

A king would kick that person out of his palace at the very least, and there may be other far worse consequences depending on the situation. All of us have authorities that are over us in this life, whether in government or in occupation, and we all have to answer to someone, but every man and woman on this planet must answer to the Living God in the end, and for the offenses they committed against Him, but this witch does not understand those consequences because she does not see her sin as sin.

sin (n): the voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity; sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command; sin comprehends not action only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law
(See 'sin', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

Pagans may want to claim that ignorance of the law means it would not apply to them, but the problem with that philosophy is that it ignores the fact that God has written His law on the hearts of mankind, meaning that their guilty consciences are triggered when they do wrong. Thus, God explains to us that they know of their own sin, but refuse to see it as sin.

For when the Gentiles [the heathen; pagan unbelievers], which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
-Romans 2:14-15

Paul expands on this idea in more detail a few chapters later:

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. [i.e. lust without restraint] For without the law sin was dead. [i.e. without the law, sin is not acknowledge to be sin] For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
-Romans 7:8-12

To put this another way, there are three reactions people can have when hearing the law of God, and first is indifference, which is the most common. Apathy towards the hearing of the law means that the person is not listening with any intent to understand, and therefore does not care because they are given over to concupiscence.

The second response is to have fear and grief because, once a man has seen himself for the vile, wicked person that he is, he knows he is guilty. That guilt brings a man to shame, and inwardly, it slays him, like an arrow through the heart, seeing sin as the ultimate deceiver and betrayer, which uses him for selfish pleasures, and leaves him in a wretched state that would destine him for eternal damnation.

The third response is anger, but not anger towards sin; rather, anger towards the messenger. This reaction is when a man hears the Word, recognizes his sin, but rejects the truth of it, and instead chooses the pleasures of sin for a season (perhaps even hiding behind the name of Jesus to excuse himself), to satisfy the lusts of his heart and self-justifiction of fallaciously perceived righteousness, and therefore, he condemns the messenger of truth.

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
-Hebrews 11:24-26

Thus, Patricia refuses to accept her deeds as evil because she does not want to perceive them as evil. She has no moral argument against it; rather, she attempts to justify it by saying it is a natural thing. In short, her morals are based on her personal feelings, not based on objective truth, which makes her no different than atheists I have talked to who try to argue the same thing, and no different than churchgoers, whose only difference is that they take the same pagan or atheistic arguments and slap a Jesus sticker on them.

I did not explain this to her this much detail, and that is because she had no interest in hearing the truth. Again, that is not the reason she wrote her letter to me, as we can see if we keep reading her letter:
"I must be frank with you, Mr. Johnson. Yes, your article truthfully points out the origins of Easter and why it is pagan at its heart and uses pagan symbolism, but the approach you took on the topic was extremely offensive."

Of course, what I have written in this book is going to be offensive not just to pagans, but most of the world who participates in these things. Jesus told us that we, His disciples, are to be the salt of the earth, and salt, by nature, irritates wounds, meaning that, although the message we preach is good for the soul and body, it is offensive to those who love their sin.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
-Matthew 5:13

Patricia continues:
"You can write on and on about paganism being evil because 'they *gasp* celebrate fertility! And the rebirth of spring and light! And the changing of the seasons! And wait, they have a goddess AND a god that are equal in every way and show that feminine qualities are just as important as masculine ones?! Wait, why is that a bad thing? Oh, it says so in this book!' That's great, but you'll find that others see Christianity as that religion that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Why? Because their god told them to."

Patricia then goes on to say many expected things, the first is to attempt to justify her paganism and witchcraft as a good thing, and then to justify her feminist ideology as good. Feminism is a rebellious and demonic ideology that rejects the commandments and authority of God over women (and thereby, over men as well), abhoring the submissive role they were designed to have, and replacing it with a prideful usurping of authority they cannot handle, nor enforce, because they are created for the purpose of being a help meet to men.
(Read Feminism: Castrating America here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
-1 Samuel 15:23

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
-Ephesians 5:33

reverence (v): to regard with fear mingled with respect and affection
(See 'reverence', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

When Patricia says I would "find that others see Christianity as that religion that killed hundreds of thousands of people," she has a misconception that most churchgoers today also have, and that is the fallacious idea that Catholicism is "Christianity." Catholicism (as I talked about in chapter one) is one of the world's largest cults, a false religion parading itself as "Christian," and as I covered in chapter eight of my book, Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism, they initiated the Inquisition, which was six centuries of torture, rape, and murder of many people of various beliefs, among those were born again Christians.

Because a bunch of lofty men with false religious ideology claimed to be "Christians," and defied the commandments of Christ to love our neighbors as ourselves (Mat 7:12), I am now being implicated for Catholic crimes against humanity, as if I am personally responsible for the deaths of many people, some of which were my brethren in Christ. That being said, to address her fallacious argument, just because the Catholic Church does something so vile that we have no words in the English language to fully express, that does not automatically justify paganism to be valid or good.

Patricia then argues that "their god told them to," which I would not argue against, simply because, just like Patricia, Catholics have a false god. Furthermore, Catholics consider their pope to be a god on earth, and I cover more details on that in chapter seven of Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism. However, Patricia's implication is that the Christian God of the Bible told them to do these things, but Jesus Christ (who is God) did not say that; on the contrary, He told them the opposite and the Catholic chose to ignore Jesus because they do not serve Him.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
-Matthew 5:43-45

Christ's apostles taught us that we are not to use the weapons of warfare that men use, but rather, we are to challenge faulty philosophies and imaginations of wicked things, using the Word of God to dismantle their preconceived ideologies:

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal [i.e. weapons men use to attack the flesh], but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
-2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Patricia then says:
"But this book says it's right, so...it must be right and everything else must be wrong. Now, how did it feel reading that opinion, Mr. Johnson? Do you feel your faith in humanity slipping as people attack your faith, the thing you hold above everything else?"

How do I feel? Joyful, because I have been blessed by Jesus Christ.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
-Luke 6:22-23

But since she is a feminist, she believes in the ridiculous philosophy that her feelings as a woman are the guiding light of truth, which makes her no different than many insane churchgoers who think the Holy Spirit is the equivalent of their emotions. Please do not misunderstand, our emotions can be in synch with the guidance of the Holy Ghost, especially when we come to repentance (i.e. godly sorrow) of our sins, but that emotion is not the Holy Ghost itself, and often, the emotions of our hearts are deceitful, leading us away from the commandments of God.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
-Jeremiah 17:9

So in the end, Patricia is just a pagan, an idolater who practices witchcraft, who did not like the fact that I pointed out that the Living God has condemned her practices and beliefs as sinful. She ends by saying:
"I just wanted you to know that your article is hurtful, and I hope one day you gain some perspective, along with some religious tolerance. And in a perfect world, consider uploading an apology."

Where am I not tolerating of other religions? Am I going to their temples to disrupt their worship of false gods? Do visit their shops and homes to burn them down?

tolerate (v): to suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing
(See 'tolerance', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025 [webstersdictionary1828.com])

All I did was write a book to show people that what they do is in direct violation to the commandments of the Christian God of the Bible. What have I done to prohibit or hinder any religious cult from doing what they please? However, by demanding an apology for daring to create negative feelings in a witch, Patricia has demonstrated intolerance of other religions, or in other words, she is a hypocrite, feigning to be "tolerant," while accusing others of rejecting principles that she also rejects.

hypocrite (n): one who feigns to be what he is not; one who assumes a false appearance
(See 'hypocrite', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

What Patricia truly wants is not tolerance, just as churchgoers are also not looking for tolerance. What all of these hypocrites are looking for is acceptance.

accept (v): to take or receive what is offered, with a consenting mind; to receive with approbation or favor; to consent or agree to
(See 'accept', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 15, 2025 [webstersdictionary1828.com])

I refuse to apologize for not accepting paganism in any form, whether it be from the mouths of witches, or from the idolatrous practices of churchgoers in celebrations such as Easter. For me to apologize, which is to say "I am sorrowful inwardly of critiquing pagans and churchgoers alike" would be a lie because I am not sorrowful of any such thing; on the contrary, I am pleased to preach the truth for the Lord Jesus Christ, even they all hate me for it.

I am especially not going to apologize for teaching the truth to a woman who is so weak-willed about her beliefs that she cannot hardly tolerate reading the Word of God on this website, let alone would she accept it into her home and life. However, she expects everyone else tolerate and accept her witchcraft, just like churchgoers expect everyone to tolerate and accept the witchcraft they celebrate in their church buildings.

I will tell readers the same thing I told her when I responded to her email:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft... they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
-Galatians 5:20-21

Get angry with me all you want. Call me all the names you wish. Cast all the spells you desire. Pray to all the false gods you choose. God has shown great patience by giving you the freedom to do all these things, but none of them will save you from the Day of Judgment of the Living God.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
-Hebrews 9:27

 

This chapter will be dedicated to answering the arguments of various famous pastors and evangelists who advocate for Easter as a "Christian" celebration. As much as I would like to answer a wide variety of them, sadly, there are many who do not even bother to address the arguments of their opposition, and just arrogantly (and ignorantly) presume that everyone believes their Easter celebration is "holy," simply because they say it is.

This chapter was quite challenging because, in most cases, when you look up written statement from typical church-ianity preachers, they provide the same tired statements that seem to be copy and pasted directly from one another about how it is "all about Jesus." It is rare to find one who addresses the history of the Easter celebration, or makes any kind of attempt to answer opposing view points, but the following is what little I could find from people who have popular names in so-called "Christian" circles.

 

BILLY GRAHAM - Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

William F. Graham Jr., more commonly known as Billy Graham, died in 2018 at 100 years old, and for the vast majority of his time in ministry, he did everything in his power to lead people away from the truth of Jesus Christ. This might surprising to those of you who did not know what he taught, or just adopted impressions of him you got from other people, but Graham was an ecumenicist, meaning that he believe in an antichrist one-world religion that encompassed all views of any faith, and if you would like to learn more about that, I recommend my article, "Wolves in Costume: Billy Graham" here at creaitonliberty.com.

To give a brief example, Billy Graham appeared on Robert Schuller's Hour of Power program in 1997, and they had the following conversation:

SCHULLER: "Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?" GRAHAM: "Well, Christianity, in being a true believer—you know, I think there's the Body of Christ, which comes from all Christian groups around the world; or outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the body of Christ... And that's what God is doing today; he's calling people out of the world for his name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Bhuddist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their heart that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved and will be with us in heaven..." SCHULLER: "Fantastic! I'm so thrilled to hear you say that! There's a wideness in God's mercy!" GRAHAM: "There is, there definitely is."

-Billy Graham, interview with Robert Schuller, Hour of Power, May 31, 1997, [https://youtu.be/3WFkb9NkEHE]

This is Graham stating, in no uncertain terms, that it does not matter what you believe, and that you can even be an unbeliever (i.e. one who does NOT believe on the Lord Jesus Christ), and can be saved. Schuller (another false preacher) then chimes in agreement, claiming that God's mercy of salvation is "wide," when Jesus told us that the only thing that is wide is the false doctrine they are preaching which will put listeners on the wide path to hell.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
-Matthew 7:13-14

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath
not the Son of God hath not life.
-1 John 5:12

Moving on from his heresy on the Gospel of Salvation, Graham and his leavened organization uses the conflation fallacy we learned about in chapter four by creating an article of ten quotes from Graham as justification for "Why Easter Matters." The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association prefaced Graham's quotes which this statement:

"Billy Graham has had a lot to say over the years about Christ's death and resurrection—what he has called the two 'most important events in human history.'"
-Billy Graham, "Why Easter Matters: 10 Quotes From Billy Graham," The Billy Graham Library, Apr 1, 2015, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [https://billygrahamlibrary.org/why-easter-matters-10-quotes-from-billy-graham/]

Again, the article is called "Why EASTER Matters," not "Why the Resurrection Matters," but it is automatically assumed that Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are one and the same. (i.e. conflation fallacy) Graham is then quoted saying that, "Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless," which is a true statement, but that has NOTHING to do with the title of this article.

The reason I wanted to address this conflation fallacy is that we will see this repeated many times from a wide variety of preachers and church-ianity organizations. They do not question nor address the origins of Easter other than making vague statements without any research, let alone do they show the slightest hint to question whether or not it is good for us to participate in a celebration that was founded by pagans.

To their credit, Graham's staff published a blog answer to the question, "Is it true that the name Easter is pagan in origin?" I am not crediting them with a good response, but I am crediting them with addressing the question:
"The origins of Easter can be traced to several pre-Christian cultures. The name Easter is attributed to Eastre, the Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, Astarte the Phoenician goddess, Ishtar the Babylonian goddess, and Oster, the German equivalent. Eastre was celebrated on the day of the Spring Equinox."
-BGEA Staff, "Is it true that the name Easter is pagan in origin?" Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [https://billygraham.org/answers/is-it-true-that-the-name-easter-is-pagan-in-origin]

So far so good. This is fairly accurate. Let's continue:
"Jesus was crucified at the time of the Passover; read John 13:1; 18:28, 39; 19:14. In the early centuries of the Christian church, the celebration of Christ's death and resurrection, based on the timing of the Jewish Passover, coincided with Eastre's festival."
-BGEA Staff, "Is it true that the name Easter is pagan in origin?" Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [https://billygraham.org/answers/is-it-true-that-the-name-easter-is-pagan-in-origin]

Again, this is accurate, as it says in John 13:

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
-John 13:1

Easter and Passover were celebrated at roughly the same time. All of this checks out, but we have read two of their only four paragraphs of response to this question, so let's read the next part:
"As pagans were transformed by the Gospel, the Christian celebration took the pagan name. In the year 325, the Nicene Council set the annual observance of Easter on the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox (usually March 20 or 21)."
-BGEA Staff, "Is it true that the name Easter is pagan in origin?" Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [https://billygraham.org/answers/is-it-true-that-the-name-easter-is-pagan-in-origin] Let's slow this down because there is a whirlwind of assumptions and fallacies in this short statement. First of all, I agree that pagans were transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but only if they were "transformed."

transform (v): to change the natural disposition and temper of man from a state of enmity to God and his law, into the image of God, or into a disposition and temper conformed to the will of God
(See 'transform', American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [webstersdictionary1828.com])

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
-Romans 12:2

Thus, one who is born again in Christ is transformed so that the will of God is their priority, and they would not be "conformed to this world," or in other words, they would not be made to resemble the world in what they say and do. However, nowhere in the Scriptures does it ever say that we should take the inventions of the world and conform them to try to look like Jesus.

There is not a single instance anywhere in the Old or New Testaments where God ever commanded that His children should take the devices of paganism and use them for His glory. In fact, when the pagans were converted at Ephesus, they brought out their pagan books and burned them in the street for all to see:

And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
-Acts 19:18-19

The early church did not adopt the pagan name of Easter for a celebration, but rather, they abandoned it for the sake of Christ. It was false converts that attempted to merge some of the Christian ideology into paganism, and because those who claim to be of Christ will, in the end, far outnumber those who are actually of Christ, it is inevitable that pagan celebrations would be popular.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
-Matthew 7:21-23

I am not arguing that Easter was never celebrated by churchgoers before the Catholic Church climbed its way out of the sewage in the 4th century. What I am arguing is that it was the false converts—the heathen who claimed to be of Christ with their mouths only, but their hearts were far from Him—who carried on the pagan traditions in pretense under the name of Christ, despite the fact that Jesus never commanded this holiday, nor is there any justification for us Christians to continue in pagan ideology of any kind.

The Nicene Council referred to by Graham's staff is the council that helped to form the corrupt Catholic cult in 325 A.D., and this is not surprise to me because Graham yoked together with Catholics for the better part of a century because, as I said earlier, he was an ecumenicist, and did not believe in the Gospel of Salvation as it is taught in the Scriptures. The Council of Nicea was made up of men who professed Christ, but the problem was that they also bent the knee to Rome, meaning that they were tired of the persecution from Rome, so when they were offered to create a corporation under Rome's umbrella, to make the Roman Pontiff the head of all Christendom, they leaped at the opportunity because their allegiance was not to Christ.

In case any readers might not understand my position on the Council of Nicea, I will make it more clear: The Nicene Council were a group of weak-willed false converts who were more than happy to betray Christ to the corrupt, pagan beast of Rome. As I talked about in chapter one, Constantine was not a Christian; he was a pagan, parading himself as a so-called "Christian convert" to create religious unity under his authority in the Roman government, and he was key in corporatizing the demonic hybrid of paganism with the Bible.

So even though Graham's staff started out the first half of the answer with accurate information, they immediately shifted to justify themselves as to why they continue to celebrate that which was clearly a pagan festival. In summary, their reason is that a bunch of cowards (under the pretense of "Christianity") got together and told the first pope, Constantine, they would establish whatever he said, and like the spineless simps they were, capitulated to all that Rome required of them, so therefore, because those men said so, they will continue in pagan tradition.
(Read Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

At least this clarifies one thing for us: Billy Graham and his association do not follow the Scriptures in all matters of faith and practice. Instead, they follow the traditions of men.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
-2 Thessalonians 3:6

Graham's staff then end with a statement that they claim avoids confusion:
"Some Christians prefer the name Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter. This avoids any confusion with pagan roots and also exalts the significance of Christ's death and resurrection above the commercialization of Easter."
-BGEA Staff, "Is it true that the name Easter is pagan in origin?" Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, retrieved Apr 16, 2025, [https://billygraham.org/answers/is-it-true-that-the-name-easter-is-pagan-in-origin]

That is deception, not an "avoidance of confusion," and I can easily demonstrate this. The year I rewrote my article into a full-length book is 2025, and this year, Easter falls on April 20th, but Passover is on April 12th, which means that if they wanted to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, they should do it on April 15th, but the reason they don't is because they celebrate the pagan festival of Easter, which was established by the corrupt Catholic cult, not the resurrection of Jesus.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy [a way of thinking] and vain deceit [useless lies], after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [first teachings you learn] of the world, and not after Christ.
-Colossians 2:8

When Graham's organization upholds the pagan traditions of men, they get praise, they get attention, and they get money, but when I rightly preach against the pagan traditions of men, I mostly get hatred and ridicule. I think we can deduce why Graham and his cult have always defended their Easter traditions, and although they make a pathetic attempt to claim concern about "commercialization," they are the worst commercializers of Easter because it is so profitable for them.










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KEN HAM - Answers in Genesis

After Ken Ham's useless media stunt that he called a "debate" with Bill Nye (watch our video on the subject to learn more), he thought it necessary to make sure people celebrated Easter, and advertised a book by one of their staff members called In Defense of Easter: Answering Critical Challenges to the Resurrection of Jesus. Ham's promotion of Easter should be no surprise since his company makes huge amounts of money in book and DVD sales during this time of year. As you can see, there is double speak in the title to the book, automatically connecting Easter to the Resurrection and calling them the same thing.

The book is described on Ham's website:
"Skeptics and critics understand the magnitude of the Resurrection, and they have developed numerous theories in their desperate attempts to explain away the wealth of evidence. The early Christians focused uniquely on Christ's conquering of death. Yet many in the church today only discuss the this [this is not a typo on my part; this is how it appeared on their site] vital doctrine at Easter time, and some fail to mention it entirely when attempting to share the gospel with unbelievers."
-Ken Ham, "Just in Time for Easter--In Defense of Easter," Answers in Genesis, Apr 8, 2014, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/04/08/just-in-time-for-easter-in-defense-of-easter]

Who? Where? Please explain to me where any of you have ever heard any church-goer or church building fail to mention Christ in relation to Easter. The entire purpose of this article is to expose pagans calling themselves Christians in their attempts to falsely connect Christ to Easter, but Ken Ham's organization acts like everyone's forgotten to put Christ in their pagan melting pot.

Ken Ham, being far too busy marketing his business--I mean, "ministry," doesn't actually address the issue himself; he leaves it to other authors. -Ken Ham, Facebook Post Mar 13, 2016, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [facebook.com/aigkenham/posts/1110881912275497]

In this instance, Ham refers to Roger Patterson, a former public school teacher who works for AiG:
"The controversy seems to have blossomed at the beginning of the twentieth century and has caused many disturbances through the years."
-Roger Patterson, "Is the Name 'Easter' of Pagan Origin?" Answers in Genesis, Apr 19, 2011, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [answersingenesis.org/holidays/easter/is-the-name-easter-of-pagan-origin]

That's simply not true; other preachers in past times have condemned the traditions surrounding the Easter celebration. For example, Charles Spurgeon in the mid-19th century called Good Friday "superstitious ceremonies" and an "ordinance of man," in which people were just putting on a show for everyone else to make themselves seem holy and righteous.
(See Charles Spurgeon, The Complete Works of C.H. Spurgeon, Delmarva Publications Inc, 2015, Vol. 7, Sermons 348-426)

However, I would say the frequency of debate about the paganism of Easter did spring up in the 20th century, and that was because it wasn't until the 19th century that church buildings in America started adopting the traditions of the Catholics. Since it's almost impossible to say a rebuking word against the Catholic Church and work for AiG at the same time, we can likely conclude that Patterson won't breathe a word exposing the Catholic Church.

Patterson addresses some authors who teach the same thing I have demonstrated, that Easter is the name for numerous goddesses that originated in Babylon, and the Roman Catholic connection of fusing paganism with Christian doctrine, but says:
"While many of the claims in the books are sound, the connection of Eostre to these other goddesses is tenuous [weak] at best."
-Roger Patterson, "Is the Name 'Easter' of Pagan Origin?" Answers in Genesis, Apr 19, 2011, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [answersingenesis.org/holidays/easter/is-the-name-easter-of-pagan-origin]

Even though we demonstrated earlier this is exactly what pagans and witches believe and teach, Patterson approached this topic with a presupposition that it was not true because, after all, he celebrates Easter. For him to connect in his mind that he does something abominable in the sight of God is too grievous for him to bear, so he picks a bad argument from one of the authors and attacks it:
"For instance, he argued on a phonetic basis that Eostre from Saxony must be the same as Astarte, Ishtar, and Ashtoreth. This is a leap to consider their relationships based on the sound of the names alone. We might find many examples of words that sound the same in various languages but share no common root or meaning."
-Roger Patterson, "Is the Name 'Easter' of Pagan Origin?" Answers in Genesis, Apr 19, 2011, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [answersingenesis.org/holidays/easter/is-the-name-easter-of-pagan-origin]

On this point, Patterson is correct, but in this article, I never made that argument. He's correct, that's a bad argument, if indeed the author he is referring to made that argument. I make the argument that these goddesses by these names are all taught to be the same by pagans and witches, and the goddesses in their mythology take on similar representations, which provides strong evidence of a collective link.

The reason I'm pointing this out is because I was laughing when I read Patterson say that similarity of names doesn't necessarily prove a link. Remember, this is all coming from AiG, and if you read our article on Christmas in the 'Popular Christian Icons' section, you'll find that Bodie Hodge (author for AiG; promoted by Ken Ham) defends Christmas by using the similarity of names argument.
(Read "Christmas: The Rejection of Jesus" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

Patterson goes on to argue exactly what we exposed in this article, that pascha means passover, and that despite the fact that Easter comes from the root word east, pointing to the sunrise and worshiping of the sun, he suggests that the word actually means "resurrection," which shouldn't be a surprise since that's what he was trying to justify before he began his research. It also shouldn't be a surprise that we see Patterson say the following:
"In the Hebrew, Passover is Pesach. The Greek... takes the form Pascha. Virtually all languages refer to Easter as either a transliterated form of pascha or use resurrection in the name."
-Roger Patterson, "Is the Name 'Easter' of Pagan Origin?" Answers in Genesis, Apr 19, 2011, retrieved Mar 15, 2016, [answersingenesis.org/holidays/easter/is-the-name-easter-of-pagan-origin]

Earlier, we demonstrated that pascha means different things depending on the context, and so in summary, what he's arguing is because pesach and pascha are similar spellings, therefore, they mean the same thing. He just argued what he criticized another author for doing, and he doesn't even see it. This is the kind of blindness and hypocrisy we can expect from wicked organizations like AiG, who will go to any lengths to justify themselves (and their paychecks) in their idolatry.

Anyone is welcome to waste their time arguing language translations all they want, but the fact is that there is no place in the Bible where Easter and the Resurrection can be linked, and there is no place in the Bible where you can point to the early church observing those days. This leaves the position of Easter being a "Christian holiday" unbiblical because people must go outside Scripture to support it, but the position of Easter being pagan idolatry is Biblical because it can be supported with Scripture.

KIRK CAMERON - Way of the Master/Living Waters

On Kirk Cameron's official website (kirkcameron.com), he has an article titled "Is the Date of Easter of Pagan Origin?" The author is Roger Patterson of Answers in Genesis; yes, that's right -- Kirk Cameron simply republishes AiG's article as his answer for Easter. (See Roger Patterson, "Is the Date of Easter of Pagan Origin?" Kirk Cameron in Partnership with Liberty University, Mar 10, 2016, retrieved Mar 16, 2016, [kirkcameron.com/is-the-date-of-easter-of-pagan-origin])

There's nothing else to say here since Cameron doesn't write or produce anything on Easter that I'm aware of. He just repeats the same fallacious arguments that other mainstream organizations do to justify themselves.

STEVEN ANDERSON - Faithful Word Baptist Church

Steven Anderson is a wicked, hateful, warmongering preacher that has no business leading anything or anyone. (I just needed to make sure I'm clear on our position concerning him.) In an Easter Sunday sermon, he refers to the King James Bible using the word 'Easter' in Acts 12:

"[T]o say that it's a pagan word about a pagan festival... the bible says every word of God is pure, he is shield to them that put their trust in him, you can't take a word from God's word in the King James Bible and say that's a bad word; that is a pagan word. If it were a pagan word, then God wouldn't be using it in Acts 12:4 in your King James Bible."

-Steven Anderson, "Easter is not a Wicked or Pagan Word," Faithful Word Baptist Church, retrieved Mar 16, 2016, [youtu.be/JGQUak9ltxo?t=3m4s]

The Word of the Lord God is pure, that is true, but that doesn't mean the subject of everything the Lord God talks about in His Word is pure. This statement from Anderson is beyond absurd, especially for someone who claims he's studied the Bible from his youth, and let's look at Judges to explain what I mean:

And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
-Judges 2:12-13

If we approach the Bible using Anderson's method of interpretation, then Baal and Ashtaroth are not bad or pagan. In fact, if we take Anderson seriously, then we would have to say Baal and Ashtaroth are pure, and that's heresy.

Let's look at a New Testament example, just to make sure no one has an excuse to say the OT and NT are different on this matter:

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
-Acts 19:24-28

Diana was the goddess of the hunt, and if we take Anderson's approach to Scripture, we have to say that Diana was pure and not pagan, and that these craftsman were pure and not pagan. That makes no sense whatsoever, but Anderson preaches that message nonetheless because he knows the reverence with which the general population treats Easter, and thus he also knows that will increase his status as a "pastor" and increase donations to his church building.
(Read "Wolves in Costume: Steven Anderson" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

MICHAEL HOUDMANN - Got Questions

Before we address GotQuestions (.org), we need to acknowledge a couple of things, first, that this organization is the Reader's Digest version of Biblical teaching, or as I prefer to call it, a McDonald's drive-thru where people can get a quick 3-4 paragraph response that they automatically accept as truth so they don't have to do any research and study for themselves. The other thing I want to make sure Christians understand is that in previous articles, I've published email exchanges I've had with a representative from GotQuestions about 501c3, in which they told me directly that they have no idea if they're actually teaching the truth of the matter, but they decide to publish false information anyway (and this is all because it helps them justify their own 501c3 contract).
(Read "God Does Not Justify Lies" here at creationliberty.com for more details on GotQuestions and their suggestions to Christians that they lie and cheat for Christ.)

Michael Houdmann, president of GotQuestions, keeps any author's name away from their responses, so no one generally has to answer for what has been written. (i.e. It's cowardice so they can avoid be held accountable for their teachings.) Since Houdmann won't be open with that information, I will default the penmanship to Houdmann. Although I will give Houdmann credit for telling people that there is no Biblical connection between Easter and the Resurrection, he still helps people feel comfortable with their pagan traditions:

"Jesus' resurrection is most worthy of being celebrated (see 1 Corinthians 15). While it is appropriate for Jesus' resurrection to be celebrated on a Sunday, the day on which Jesus' resurrection is celebrated should not be referred to as Easter. Easter has nothing to do with Jesus' resurrection on a Sunday. As a result, many Christians feel strongly that the day on which we celebrate Jesus' resurrection should not be referred to as 'Easter Sunday.' Rather, something like 'Resurrection Sunday' would be far more appropriate and biblical. For the Christian, it is unthinkable that we would allow the silliness of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny to be the focus of the day instead of Jesus' resurrection."

-Michael Houdmann, "What is Easter Sunday?" GotQuestions, retrieved Mar 16, 2016, [gotquestions.org/Easter-Sunday.html]

There's a number of things that should be addressed about this statement, first being that I am in agreement if someone were to say that Christ deserves all glory and honor, but here, Houdmann is helping people to justify pagan ritual by simply referencing to the entire chapter of 1Co 15, which I will not quote the entirety of here. (It's just too long for this article.) The summary of 1Co 15, which I encourage you to go back and read, is saying that if Christ was not risen from the dead, then all of our faith and works are in vain. The problem with Houdmann is that doesn't justify people to have a celebration tradition correlated with paganism, and I know I've quoted this Scripture many times in this article already, but I want do it again because you'll notice that on all the different mainstream websites out there, no one quotes this Scripture when discussing their Easter schedule:

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
-Galatians 4:8-11

In the last section on Anderson, I quoted Acts 19, which referenced to the words of a pagan man who wanted to attack Paul, because Paul was teaching that the pagan gods "be no gods." That is exactly what Paul is saying here in Galatians, that they were doing service unto them which "are no gods," that being the gods of those who celebrated Easter in the first place, and the Catholic Church's false gods as they brought them all together under one umbrella.

Just as a reminder, the word 'sanctified' means 'set apart':

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth... And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
-John 17:15-19

So not only is Houdmann ignoring the commandments of Scripture for us to sanctify ourselves from the world, but he also helps comfort church-goers that they should continue in the traditions of bondage from whence they have claimed to be delivered. He then says "many Christians feel strongly that the day on which we celebrate Jesus' resurrection should not be referred to as 'Easter Sunday'," and you can see how that automatically implies that Christians ought to have a day of observance for this event.

He then strongly suggests that Christians not call it Easter, but rather call it 'Resurrection Day.' This is deceptive. I would rather they call it 'Easter', so at least they're being honest that they're observing days and times in accordance with pagan rituals.

To call Easter something else is just hiding in cowardice, kind of like how GotQuestions hides their authors in cowardice. It's no different from Halloween when church-goers will rename their 'Halloween Party' to a 'Fall Harvest Party', which they "coincidentally" schedule in accordance with the pagan sabbat, and the bottom line is that sanctification from the world is almost unheard of in modern-day American "ministries" and church buildings.
(Read "Halloween: Are Christians Lovers of Death?" here at creationliberty.com for more details.)

There is no rebuke or correction or pointing towards righteousness coming from Houdmann, and I know many people rely on their ministry for answers. I pray the Lord Jesus Christ would protect as many of His elect as possible from the deception of GotQuestions.

ERIC HOVIND - Creation Today

I was unable to find any type of teachings or posts that Eric Hovind has made on his website or blog, but in his online shopping mall, he imitates Ken Ham by promoting and selling In Defense of Easter: Answering Critical Challenges to the Resurrection of Jesus that we mentioned earlier. Aside from his silence, a search of Creation Today provides links that point back to Ken Ham's blog posts, and also GotQuestions.org and their leaven, which we have already covered. And of course, all this information is available to you as long as you're willing to pay money for it first.

(See Creation Today, "In Defense of Easter: Answering Critical Challenges to the Resurrection of Jesus eBook," The Creation Store, retrieved Mar 17, 2016, [creationtoday.org/product/in-defense-of-easter-answering-critical-challenges-to-the-resurrection-of-jesus-ebook-epub-mobi]; They charged $9.99 for the PDF as of Mar 17, 2016.)

This is a very common theme seen in a bunch of mainstream websites concerning Easter; they simply refuse to be sanctified from the world. There is very little written on the subject from most of the preachers and evangelists I investigated, and they all seem to point back to the same leavened sources that use fallacious arguments in a pathetic attempt to justify their pagan tradition.

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