Why do Christians celebrate easter when it named after a pagan godess?

Question

the word [Easter] is derived from the Norse Ostara or Eostre, meaning the festival of spring at the vernal equinox

Why not respectfully the Memorial of Jesus Christ?

Why mix holy with pagan celebrations: you guys need to get your bible's out on God's hatred of such things.

Answer 1

Satan has his holy days too. The way he gets us to celebrate them is to sugarcoat them with a Christian theme.

Answer 2

Easter is a celebration, of Jesus. In the bible i do not remember if it say when and what we should call the Christian festivals. And for those who as to say that Jesus was not born on Christmas Day, oh we do not know that anything is possible. This question brings out a point that do we celebrate easter the right way.

Answer 3

Almost all Christian holidays come from or are close to a Pagan holiday. This was because when the Celts and Druids were in Britain and Ireland, the Christians who were trying to convert them needed to give them an incentive. The Celts liked the celebrations they had, so Christians needed to have a celebration around the same time to compete with them.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate. Easter is about Jesus' resurrection. It's a time to think about He who came and died for our sins.

Answer 4

Here's a hint--every religion borrows from earlier ones. Wicca, for example, isn't Ye Olde Traditions of Wytchcrafte. It's a lot of Golden Dawn and Freemason ceremonialism mixed with Margaret Murray's awful research and bound together with Gardner's creativity. It's a legitimate religion, but it borrowed just like everyone else did.

This is normal for religions. The Romans, for example, pretty much assimilated every religion from people they conquered--why else do you think that the classic Roman state religion resembled Greek religion so much? Not to mention all the other influences from Egypt to Britain.

So Christianity assimilating pagan holidays is just a natural part of its life cycle.

Answer 5

To answer this question you have to look back and see that pagan beliefs and rituals were used by Christians and then deemed christian only. I mean its kind of funny that easter is on the same day as Spring Equinox and Christmas on Winter Solstice. Also Christianity is based on the story of Mithras and many ritual details were stolen by the christians from the Mithraic Mystery Religion. Apollo, Zeus, Mithras, and Krishna were said to be born on DEC.25 as well as you know who.

Answer 6

Sir = YOU ERR, in your Question!

Real Christians Do Not Celebrate Easter! They Celebrate Resurrection Sunday!

Pseudo Christians and Pegans play the Easter Bunny Game!

Thanks, RR

Answer 7

The Devil has these people fooled in the head The Bible says nothing about celebrating Easter and Your right it is a pagan holiday that many christians celebrate along with Christmas. Christmas is the birth of Nimrod not Jesus, if you read the Bible or any book you know who Nimrod is.

Answer 8

Blame it all on Constantine and the Vatican. I do. ;) Constantine was a businessman after all. Changing Christian holy day dates to Pagan ones was a HUGE career move. It was all about the converting.

Answer 9

Because their preacher is too much of a wousey to tell them the truth.Actually baptism is what we do to demostrate we are born again,as Jesus went in the grave and came up out of the grave, so are we emerged into the water a sinner and come up a new creature in Christ.All this nonsense about bunnies and eggs is done all in vain.

Answer 10

All our festivals are pagan. Jesus was not born at Christmas ... he was born on 4th October. But then, since when has Easter been a religious festival ... isn't it just a long weekend?

Answer 11

I don't celebrate Easter...it is a pagan holiday. I celebrate Resurrection Sunday.....no eggs, no bunnies.