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Your views are to history what Globull Warming is to science.

First, it is an accident of our Germanic language that we call it Easter (rooted in the ancient Germanic word for sunrise) while most other languages use the word for Passover and liturgically the Church refers to Paschal celebration. The celebration of what in English is called Easter is a celebration of the Christian passover.

Second, The celibate priesthood is not a matter of doctrine, but of discipline. Historically married men have been made priests and even today some married converts from Lutheranism or Anglicanism are ordained priests in the Latin rite. In the eastern rite, in eastern Europe, it is common practice as it is with our Orthodox brethren. Ordination of married men Latin rite is a rule that could be changed and is mostly advocated by the leftists while the Vatican has not shown any inclination towards changing.

Arguments over the date of Pasch is a matter of what calendar is used-even among Christians those on the Julian calendar often celebrate on different dates than those of us on the Gregorian calendar. Roman emperors, like other governments, had their own political reasons for how they enforce decisions by the councils. Also as of the Council of Nicea, Constantine was not actually a baptized Christian, he was only baptized towards the very end of his life, and was mostly concerned with the political ramifications arguments within the Church had on his empire. Throughout history, heresy was often enforced with death sentence penalties in civil courts, but not in the Church courts because the governments use religion as a unifying force within the country- the concept of freedom of religion is are hard lesson still not learned in much of the world- where the Church is much more interested in the proper formation of the conscience and salvation of the individual’s soul. In point of fact, the history of the Church is very often defined in tension with the secular governments with secular governments trying to wield influence in places the Church considered itself sovereign and vice-versa.