The point Mrs. Don-o was making, I believe, is that the names of the days of the week also are of “pagan origin”.
Obviously no one (except for a few extreme purists here actually) believes that calling the fifth day of the week “Thursday” is a sin, even though it’s origin is “Thor’s Day”, another Germanic god.
Why doesn’t anyone object to that? Because everyone (who has common sense) knows that it doesn’t matter where the word came from, what matters is how the word is used today. The word “Thursday” is used to denote the fifth day of the week, not to memorialize the god Thor.
Similarly for “Easter”. No one uses that word to memorialize “Eôstre”, the Germanic goddess, rather it’s to denote the day the Lord rose from the dead (chosen by traditional means by the way, it’s interesting how you celebrate it on the same day as the Catholic Church, different name notwithstanding).
It’s the same concept. The name “Thursday” is no more evil than the name “Easter”. Etymological origins are irrelevant in both cases.
If anyone is being a “moral relativist” it’s you, who chooses (apparently at random) when to use pagan names and when not. To be consistent in your rejection of all things pagan, you should also refuse to name the days of the week as is conventionally done, since they are also of pagan origin. In fact, if you don’t, you actually sin more (if you’re right about your point about the word “Easter”) because we use those names much more frequently throughout the year. Easter is only one day; Thursday occurs 52 times a year.
Perhaps I should try speaking in a Germanic dialect.
As I pointed out, we don't use the names of the days of the week to celebrate an activity that Christ engaged in on our behalf.
If you'll re-read my original post, I was simply pointing out that if we are going make a fuss over people who say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" on the grounds that it takes Christ out of the equation, we ought to at least acknowledge that the word "easter" has no relevance to Jesus's resurrection.
It's just another day of the week or a point on a compass or changing of the seasons or a Babylonian sex goddess.
I know a lady who says "Happy whatever-day-of-the-week it is" whenever we see each other.
It's annoying but I don't think she says it to pay tribute to a Roman or Germanic god or goddess. It's, as you and Mrs. Don-0 say, simply a reference to a specific day of the week.
What Christ did on this day ought to be honored for WHAT it was, now WHEN it was.
That's all I'm saying. Didn't mean to start a mass guilt trip.