I know this. But I’m curious as to why DouglasKC feels it necessary to beat people over the head with one part of Judaic law when I’m guessing he doesn’t follow all of it.
I don't follow or adhere to Judaic law.
As much as we’d like to think that “Easter” is some ancient worship of teutonic or babylonian gods, it is not.
In all but the germanic languages, it goes by the name of “passover.” It is only in German and English that it goes by “Easter.”
And that is probably because “sun” and “son” are similar in both languages. The Son Rises at Easter is a play on words in both languages. East is the direction of the Rising Son....it is an Easterly direction.
Check it in French, Italian, Spanish, etc. It’s called the same word as is found for “the passover of the Jews.” It’s some variation of “pascha=passover”.
So, there was no Roman Catholic conspiracy about “Easter/Ishtar” and all that garbage. If so, they forgot to mention it to most of Roman Catholic Europe.