Absurd.
I'm sure that phrase is all very cool in some way that You understand but do you think you might try it again for the rest of us?
Technically, the first Sunday after the Passover is the Day of First Fruits.
Paul says that Jesus was our passover slain for us and that He is the first fruits of them that slept.
Not a coincidence.
:)
Icyc Bockpec!
Happy Easter!
I view it as a great thing. I look forward to the day when someone saying “happy abortion” means only celebration of the love of Christ and the memory of what it means now is long forgotten.
Sigh.
Two things happen at Easter like clockwork:
CNN has special saying Jesus didn’t exist and was gay
People post this completely debunked urban myth about the word “Easter”
He is risen indeed!!!!
If it makes you feel any better, the phrase “Happy Easter” (or anything like it) is confined to Germanic languages like English.
In the Romance languages, phrases like “Buona Pasqua” is said (which more accurately alludes to the origin of His Sacrifice, which was begun at the Passover meal, which was always a prefigurement of His Sacrifice anyway).
Nothing is lost in the English equivalent, as the origin of the word “Easter” (as an equivalent of “Pasqua”) is not as described here (from “Ishtar”), rather “The English term, according to the Ven. Bede (De temporum ratione, I, v), relates to Eôstre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring, which deity, however, is otherwise unknown, even in the Edda (Simrock, Mythol., 362); Anglo-Saxon, eaester, eaestron; Old High German, ôstra, ôstrara, ôstrarün; German, Ostern. April was called easter-monadh.” (http://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/easter)
We see (from that quote) that the etymology of the word is not from “Ishtar” rather from a Germanic goddess of unknown origin, who was associated with the coming of the season of spring. Since His Resurrection occurred around that time (of Spring) the early German Christians simply appropriated that term, already in use, to signify His Resurrection. The pagan implications, in other words, were ignored and eventually supplanted by the Christian.
Even if one takes umbrage at this fact, and still wishes to claim “Easter is pagan in origin”, such an objector must then address the fact that literally millions of people (those who speak the Romance languages) don’t use any such word at all, and again, in fact use a word that is etymologically linked to “Passover”. Hardly a pagan connection.
First of all a blessed Feast of the Resurrection to all of my separated Western brethren who uses the papal paschalion to calculate the date. For us Orthodox (and the other Eastern Christian confessions that still uses the Nicene paschalion) today is the Feast of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, popularly called Palm Sunday.
The article is nonsense. The name “Easter” is uses only in countries which speak Germanic languages and derives from the name of the month in which Pascha — the proper name of the Feast of the Resurrection — typically fell, Oestre, yes named for an obscure Germanic goddess, like many current English month names are named for Roman gods or goddesses (or Emperors the pagans voted divine honors). In countries where Greek or Romance languages or Slavic languages are spoken the name for the feast is a variant of Pascha (which incidentally is also the Greek word for Passover, derived from the Hebrew word, which since vowels were inserted in the middle ages has been Pesach — notice, same consonants.)
This is the same sort of rubbish as claims that the observance of Christian worship on the first day of the week is solar paganism because in some Western European languages the name of the day is based on the word for “Sun”. In Greek the first day of the week is Kyriakie (the Lord’s Day), in Russian it is Voshkesenye (Resurrection). I’m surprised we don’t get this strain of nonsense claiming that Good Friday is a pagan festival commemorating Freya, since the name Friday derives from Freya.
So, to all you Western Christians in America and other English speaking countries: Happy Easter!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
It's worth looking up so you won't stumble into this gaffe again.
Hey, Tex, go find an Easter Egg Hunt! Rain your Babel on the kids! Maybe you can find a Shroud to wrap around yourself!
And think about it...we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection at the approximate correct time of the year. It is a Passover event...for obvious reason...the first Passover in Egypt foretold of this event of some 2000 years ago.
Not so with ‘Christmas’...not likely a December, or winter event. And btw, Hanukkah is a man-made Jewish holiday. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev...likely the reason for December 25. This feast was ‘ordained’ by Judah Maccabee and his four brothers.
Not harassing anything. You’re just showing a spirit of fear and walking by sight.
Thanks for posting this. You are absolutely correct.
Happy Easter!
What should we do about...
Sun’s Day
Moon’s Day
Tiu’s Day
Woden’s Day
Thor’s Day
Freya’s Day
and Saturn’s Day
?
Oh, good grief.
When Christians say “Happy Easter” to one another, they’re commemorating one thing & one thing only-—Christ’s resurrection. There’s no confusion about it.
Instead of getting all hung up on word games, shouldn’t we be reflecting on His sacrifice for us?
Read Mark 9:38-41 and try again.
And on Easter morning, of all days!
Shameful.
The Easter Bunny came to my house today. In a large bag with his picture on it, was a beautifulul Easter Lily. The beauty and white purity remind me of the risen Christ. I have no grudge with the bunny.