[DouglasKC]

In Greek you can't replace "Passover" with "Easter", because they're both Pascha. It's the same holiday.

Yes and no. It started off as Passover, the time sanctioned by God, and evolved into Easter, the holiday. The greek word originally meant just that, Passover, the day ordained by God. Over the centuries it became corrupted and came to mean the holiday, Easter, as well.

[Conservative til I die]

Yes and no. It started off as Passover, the time sanctioned by God, and evolved into Easter, the holiday. The greek word originally meant just that, Passover, the day ordained by God. Over the centuries it became corrupted and came to mean the holiday, Easter, as well.

You're basing half your argument on the current translation of the word. As you readily admit, in many languages it is still called "Pascha" or something very similar.

The other half of the argument is that Easter/Pascha shares certain symbols and customs with pagan celebrations. So the intent matters not, eh? Most Easter symbols/customs (bunnies, eggs, etc.) are merely secular, the stuff Easter Baskets are made of, or are just "hijacked" to the celebration of Christ.

This same kind of argument is applied to the Eucharist, that somehow drinking the wine is wrong because Horus or some other deity had a celebration based around wine. It's like such people are so intellectually deficient or outright bankrupt that they can't tell the difference between drinking wine to a pagan deity and drinking wine in celebration of Christ.

I also hope you didn't exchange wedding bands with your spouse, which is an ancient pagan custom, or that you don't call the planets by their names (Mars, Jupiter, Venus, etc.) since that is clearly pagan.

[A.J.Armitage]

Since your case is based on contrasting Easter with Passover, you don't get to just invent a difference when people start pointing out that the difference in names exists only in English.

[Calabash]

The greek word originally meant just that, Passover, the day ordained by God. Over the centuries it became corrupted and came to mean the holiday, Easter, as well.

This is hilarious. Let me ping some of my chums who are familiar with Greek over here to dissect this. Surely they have a heart to enlighten the ignorant on this score.

I am most curious to see how they take to the idea that while the Greeks initially meant "Pascha" to mean "Passover", now they mean "Pascha" to mean "Pagan Easter Bunny Festival", and the Greek Church has lost all memory of "Passover", despite still calling the feast you insist on naming "Easter" for "Pagan Easter Bunny Egg Worship Day" as "Pascha" meaning "Passover".