Yes, we attach the word Easter to the Day of Resurrection. Common English words do not prove some sinister change has happened. When we use our Osterizer in the kitchen (the name we always used for a blender for decades) we never bow down to pagan fertility gods.
I am going to write The Free Republic Code, in which I prove that the FR writers do not mean what they say, that they really have a hidden code (known only to me) where they reveal their true thoughts.
Reagan was the last known leader with this secret knowledge. He passed it on to me. That's why the French secret police and the Girl Scouts are trying to kill me. They know I know. There is a rumor that I possess a thumb drive passed down from Aristophanes to Luther to Reagan and finally to me where all the wisdom of the ancient past is revealed.
"When those that translated the King James were finish there was attached a letter warning"
Where? Not in the preface directed to King James
"How about that the transformation of the word Passover to Ishtar oh I mean Easter?"
You really mean "Eostre" or "Ostara", an ancient fertilitiy Goddess whose symbols were the Egg and the Rabbit, and who is closely associated with Celtic rites of the spring solstice (always forget if this is Samain or Beltain). You'd be hard pressed to find any ancient civilization capable of even the most basic astronomy that was not able to calculate the occurrances of the solstices and which did not imbue those times with supernatural power of some sort.
Whether that is known as Passover, Easter or any of a hundred other names is besides the point; they are universally known and celebrated events that predate Christianity by thousands of years.
This, of course, is not to be confused with the cult of Mithras, an ancient Oriental god,who was born to a virgin in a cave, who died and was reborn, and who represented the ultimate victory of light over darkness, and whose followers celebrated the Winter Sostice (the return of the Sun)by giving each other gifts of wreaths woven from evergreen boughs.
Hmm. Seems there is nothing new under the Sun, nor in the Bible. Says even less about Christian theology that it was willing to freely and unashamedly borrow pagan traditions to suit it's own ends, in my opinion.
But then again, when has fact ever been allowed to blunt faith?
The author is absolutely right: the Bible as we know it is the result of a long string of translations from Hebrew and Aramaic, to Greek and Latin, and finally to the vernacular languages. Numerous mistakes in translation were bound to occur and be accepted literally. We won't even begin to argue about the political/ecumenical agendas of those who shaped what's in there, selecting this or that text because it suits a particular need or point of view, and chucking the rest.
Where did you get that nonsense? No one transferred "Passover" to "Easter." Easter is most likely the Roman title for a spring holiday, but many Christians are now calling that holiday Resurrection Sunday. BTW, the egg idea probably came from the roasted egg used in the Seder.