[chuckles]

This is good news that the Orthodox churches celebrate the correct days. First Fruits (Resurrection Day) starts at 6pm on the 8th and ends at 6pm on the 9th. Easter is a pagan day brought into the church by Rome in the 4th century.

Satan is a counterfeiter and a pretender.

[SamuraiScot]

Easter is a pagan day brought into the church by Rome in the 4th century. . .

Russians use the word "Easter," too.

"Lent" just means "spring" in some version of Anglo-Saxon. Names of things are not particularly important over the centuries, and calendar days wander with changes in measurements of the stars. It's the teaching and the habits of the people that give holy days their life.

[Cronos]

Sheesh, read up the history first. The dates differed only from the 1500s

After the great schism in 1054 although the churches were split among several doctrinal views, they both still believed Easter should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon to follow the vernal equinox. The Catholic Church, however, no longer found that it had to fall after Passover. Added to this was the Catholic Church's switch over from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, which was presented in 1582. The Orthodox Church still held to the original Nicean Council's formula for Easter as well as following the original calendar system of the Julian calendar. By using two different calendar systems, the vernal equinox now fell on March 21 under the Gregorian calendar and April 3 on the Julian calendar. The two churches now celebrated the same Easter holiday on two different days

Easter is NOT pagan and don't fall for the fake "Eostre" story -- that is so incredibly bogus for three reasons:

1. you do realize that Easter is purely in English and German, right? In Dutch it is Pasen, in Latin Paschae, in Polish Pascha, in Spanish Pascua, in French Paques, in Irish Casca --> English wasn't even born in the 4th century and Modern English dates only from the 16th century, post-Reformation era So linking Pascha to a late language is just wierd - just as dafta as linking Ishtar to Easter (linking a Sumerian langauge word to a word from a langauge thousands fo years later and no connection in the intervening languages)
   
   
2. The idea that "Eostre" was even a goddess is a fallacy of Bedes -- no one else wrote about Eostre, not even the pagans themselves. And we have plenty of tales of Odin and every little woodsprite in Anglo-Saxon and Nordic tales. Eostre or Ostern is the Saxon term for Spring (or sun in the East), not a deity
   
   
3. The Anglo-Saxons and Jutes were still in Denmark in the 4th century