re easter what s in a name was re new testament double stan daniel segard dsegard nyx cs du edu wrote a lot of stuff deleted for that matter stay biblical and call it omar rasheet the feast of first fruits torah commands that this be observed on the day following the sabbath of passover week sunday by any other name in modern parlance why is there so much objection to observing the resurrection on the st day of the week on which it actually occured why jump it all over the calendar the way easter does why not just go with the sunday following passover the way the bible has it why seek after unbiblical methods in fact that is the reason easter jumps all over the calendar passsover itself is a lunar holiday not a solar one and thus falls over a wide possible span of times the few times that easter does not fall during or after passover are because easter is further linked to the vernal equinox the beginning of spring more deletions so what does this question have to do with easter the whore goddess i am all for celebrating the resurrection just keep that whore out of the discussion your obsession with the term whore clouds your argument whore is a value judgement not a descriptive term more deletions overall this argument is an illustration of the etymological fallacy see j p louw semantics of nt greek that is the idea that the true meaning of a word lies in its origins and linguistic form in fact our own experience demonstrates that the meaning of a word is bound up with how it is used not where it came from very few modern people would make any connection whatsoever between easter and ishtar if daniel seagard does then for him it has that meaning but that is a highly idiosyncratic meaning and not one that needs much refutation revdak netcom com
