The depths to which the enemies of Our Lord will sink! Many atheists and so-called 'Jehovah's Witnesses' use the argument in this meme to 'prove' that Easter is a pagan festival pagan in its origins.
This is really quite laughable, since I seriously doubt the Ancient Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who named it 'Easter' in their languages had ever heard of Ishtar. Also, English, German, and a few Slavic tongues are virtually the only languages that so denote it. Most other languages have a name derived from the Greek Πάσχα (Pascha), cognate to the Hebrew פֶּסַח (Pesach), 'Passover' from which the Feast derives and which the Emperor Constantine, who reigned long before the Anglo-Saxons who invented the word 'Easter' were Christianised, would have called it.
In fact, even in some dialects of English, it is traditionally called Pasch or Pascha, going back to the Anglo-Saxons over a thousand years ago.
Oh, and BTW, Ishtar is pronounced ˈɪʃtɑːr (ish-tar), not i:tɜ:ʳ (ee-ster).
Excellent debunking. May you and yours have a blessed EASTER! He is risen! Alleluia!
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