Tell me my FRiend. Were the KJV translators in on this plot to name the day of Christ's resurrection after some pagan god?
Let me ask you another question:
If you wish to see the Son (sun) rise, in what direction would you look?
That my FRiend is a much more plausible explanation for the origin of the word. We look to the East to see the Son Rise. The Son Rises in the East.
Since you’ve gone to great lengths to make my general comments all about you, hypersensitive that it’s an attack on your religion, I might as well ask, will you be decorating eggs, giving chocolate eggs, rabbits?
I'm on a diet right now, but I must say that Chocolate Easter Eggs from Cadbury are pretty darned good. I hear they made them smaller this year. Bummer.
“Tell me my FRiend. Were the KJV translators in on this plot to name the day of Christ’s resurrection after some pagan god?”
It’s “passover” in the greek. There were many things they translated for political reasons. For example, the greek for “baptise” means immerse. That’s simply what it means. It was John the Immerser! But they knew if they translated it “immerse”, they’d be killed. So they transliterated it instead. The word “church” would also be much better translated “congregation”, in the greek its primary connotation is “those who are called out”, whereas the word “church” has connotations of building, authority, command structure. They translated Passover as “Easter”, because that is what the traditions of men had called it for many years.
“If you wish to see the Son (sun) rise, in what direction would you look?”
“Son” and “sun”, despite sounding similar, have no other connection. Sun worship is a very old thing.
“We look to the East to see the Son Rise. The Son Rises in the East.”
I think that’s a big reach, but even if so, then it’s sun worship. Still bad!