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.
I don't think the main focus of the article was on the name. The focus was on the Lord's feast days and how the traditional church changed God's instructions by replacing HIS Passover with a holiday that incorporated pagan customs and rituals and changed the focus, meaning and application of the Passover.
Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.
This is when the Lord Jesus himself observed the day he created. Yet the traditional church says it's fitting to ignore the word of God.
Exactly, and if there was that would also mean that ALL of mainstream Protestantism is a party to the conspiracy.
And let's not forget that the official language of the Catholic Church has NEVER been English or German (in the earliest days it was probably Greek and has been Latin for well over a thousand years).
Celebrations of Easter are taken directly from the Gospel and certainly predate the conversion of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon portions of the Roman Empire.