“For starters, the word for Easter in many languages—including Spanish (Pascua), French (Pâques), and Romanian (Pa?ti)—is derived from the Hebrew word pesach, or “Passover.” Christians indeed borrowed many of their Easter traditions from another faith, but it was the monotheistic religion of Judaism, not paganism.”
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Christians would be doing the right thing if they focused a lot less on “Easter” and a lot more on Passover.
Like Jesus did.
I call it Resurrection Day.
Let the Bible speak for itself. The author of Acts 12:4 wrote the Greek word “pascha” (Strongs 3957). Anyone can go over to Biblehub.com and see how many different translators translate this word:
https://biblehub.com/acts/12-4.htm
And if you want to see the Greek text, you can go to a Greek-English Interlinear like this one:
https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/act12.pdf
And there, plain as day on page one of the PDF is “pasca”, a word that would sound far more like “Passover” than “Ishtar”.
Who are you going, to believe, the author or people coming centuries later telling you that the word doesn’t mean what it plainly means?
As Jesus said, the truth will set you free. And speaking of free, Jesus said that the only sign he was Messiah was that he would be three days and three nights in the grave. How do you get three days and three nights out of the conventional Easter narrative. Well, only by redefining the meaning of words, like we hear so much today.
Don’t be afraid of the truth. Just ask yourself, what if the truth is that Jesus was really in the grave three full days and three full nights, exactly and only as the Gospels authors said? Where does that truth lead you?
Easter use to be more important holiday than Christmas till the emphasis came to be Santa Claus
Maybe they should focus on forbidding pork, having a baby bris, and burning animal sacrifices in the temple then.