[9YearLurker]

I guess Megan didn’t look too far at the Old English and Old German roots of the ‘Easter’ and the English language.

[donmeaker]

She actually mentioned it in the article.

But Ishtar was never worshiped by the Old English, the Angles and Saxons becoming Christians of one sort or another long before the Old English language developed. Same with the Germans and Old German.

[Campion]

The root of "Easter" isn't Babylonian, and, as the article correctly notes, practically everyone else in Western Europe calls Easter by a name cognate to "Passover". Should we believe that Babylonians brought Easter to England, but mysteriously skipped Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.?

The whole "Easter"-"Ishtar" thing was started by an incredibly ignorant man named Alexander Hislop, who had absolutely no scholarly credentials in linguistics or archaeology, simply invented some of the "evidence" he cites in his book, and was blissfully ignorant of Christianity outside England.