Ishtar or Easter

The words "pagan," "heretic," and "infidel" are synonymous in Christian nomenclature. Try mentioning science, or the study of cosmology, or any other subject antithetical to superstitious medieval folklore, and what you'll hear from brainwashed adherents is, "I don't get involved with those pagan ideas," or, "that's a pagan concept or belief," or, "I'm not interested in astronomy or the stars."

Paganism is the polytheistic belief in more than one god or many gods. In early Christianity, the word pagan referred to a diverse array of cults as a single group or entity.

Pagans did not subscribe to the Christian religion, and it was not the global evangelical faction that it is today. As was their right, Pagans had their own beliefs. Over the millennium, this misunderstood appellation received a bad rap because it was, and still is used as a nom de plume and scapegoat for all that is evil about Christianity.

Christianity eliminated competing sects via demonizing, destroying Egyptian mythology, and anyone or any religion that stood in its way. 

The destruction of Serapeum* and the Library of Alexandria resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of scrolls, books, and documents. 

The colossal annihilation of Egyptian artifacts, archives, and records was seen by many ancient and modern scholars as representative of the triumph of Christianity over other religions, promulgated by carnage and war. Therefore, the most popular religion today was not based on "spreading the good news," or a divine entity who has a 'chosen people'. 

This mass ruination has become a symbol of knowledge and culture destroyed. In the process, the great philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and head of the Neoplatonic School at Alexandria, Hypatia, was lynched, flayed (skinned), and burned, by a Christian mob.

If you study pre-Christian cultures you will see that many of the 66 books of the Bible come straight from pagan allegories, fables, and myths. 

The only difference would be that the name of the characters were changed, but the theme and story lines of most of the apocryphal narratives are identical.

Dies Natalis Solis Invicti is translated as the "birthday of the Unconquered Sun", a festival introduced by the Roman Emperor Aurelian to celebrate the Sun God. This celebration took place at the winter solstice on the 25th of December.

The Egyptian savior Horus, 3000 BCE (Before the Common Era); Attis of Greece - 1200 BCE; and Mithra of Persia - 1200 BCE, all had miraculous births on December 25th.

The celebration of Easter is a pagan holiday that Christians celebrate. Fundamentalist believers have the unmitigated gall to refer to anyone who doesn't believe their outlandish rhetoric as a heretic or apostate; not realizing the historical fabrications surrounding their very own religion.

Here's what makes Easter a pagan celebration:

When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BCE, March 25th was set as the "Spring Equinox." 

A Julian year is slightly longer than an actual year (365.25 days), therefore specific calendar dates were not consistent. By 300 CE, instead of March 25th, the Spring Equinox regressed to March 11th. Because of this gap, Pope Gregory XIII created a modern Gregorian calendar in order to "restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter." This was done at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. 

According to the historian Bede, the English name "Easter" comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the "Vernal Equinox."

Over 2.5 billion misguided Christians [and 1.8 billion Muslims] refuse to study independently regarding their respective, archaic beliefs. Humans have walked this earth for close to 200,000 years, if not longer. The fundamentalist adherent who supports the Creation story (Adam and Eve), clings to the notion that humanity is less that 10,000 years old.

In most spiritual debates, believers often resort to ad hominem attacks, cherry picking, circular arguments, confirmation bias, double entendres, fallacious reasoning, and "God of the gaps," in a desperate attempt to buttress their medieval stories.

God of the Gaps is a theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of any religious point Christians try to make. In other words, if it can't be explained scientifically, the Lord is behind it. This flawed theory uses religion to fill any and all gaps without providing an ounce of proof. 

* The Serapeum of Alexandria in Ptolemaic Egypt was a temple built by Ptolemy III (reigned 246–222 BCE) and dedicated to Serapis, the syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god who was made the protector of Alexandria. By all detailed accounts, the Serapeum was the largest and most magnificent of all temples in the Greek quarter of Alexandria. Besides the image of the god, the temple precinct housed an offshoot collection of the great Library of Alexandria. ~ Wikipedia