First of all a blessed Feast of the Resurrection to all of my separated Western brethren who uses the papal paschalion to calculate the date. For us Orthodox (and the other Eastern Christian confessions that still uses the Nicene paschalion) today is the Feast of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, popularly called Palm Sunday.
The article is nonsense. The name “Easter” is uses only in countries which speak Germanic languages and derives from the name of the month in which Pascha — the proper name of the Feast of the Resurrection — typically fell, Oestre, yes named for an obscure Germanic goddess, like many current English month names are named for Roman gods or goddesses (or Emperors the pagans voted divine honors). In countries where Greek or Romance languages or Slavic languages are spoken the name for the feast is a variant of Pascha (which incidentally is also the Greek word for Passover, derived from the Hebrew word, which since vowels were inserted in the middle ages has been Pesach — notice, same consonants.)
This is the same sort of rubbish as claims that the observance of Christian worship on the first day of the week is solar paganism because in some Western European languages the name of the day is based on the word for “Sun”. In Greek the first day of the week is Kyriakie (the Lord’s Day), in Russian it is Voshkesenye (Resurrection). I’m surprised we don’t get this strain of nonsense claiming that Good Friday is a pagan festival commemorating Freya, since the name Friday derives from Freya.
So, to all you Western Christians in America and other English speaking countries: Happy Easter!
Happy Egg Laying Bunny Day to you, too.
Hope you find lots of hard boiled eggs.
Give them time FRiend. Give them time.... Enjoy Palm Sunday.