re easter what s in a name was re new testament double stan in article apr athos rutgers edu dsegard nyx cs du edu daniel segard writes seanna bnr ca seanna s m watson asks what is the objection to celebration of easter the objection naturally is in the way in which you phrase it easter or eashtar or ishtar or ishtarti or other spellings is the pagan whore goddess of fertility it is celebration of the resurrection of jesus no you are thinking perhaps of ressurection sunday i think tsk tsk too much argument on non issues i m roman catholic and it seems to me that people celebrate easter and christmas for itself rather than how it relates to jesus i don t really care about some diety if people have some other definition of easter then that s their business don t let it interfere with my easter resurrection sunday where did that come from if people celebrate easter for the cadburry bunny that s their business so from this i infer that there are different rules for christians of jewish descent what happened to there is neither jew nor greek slave nor free male nor female for all are one in christ jesus i ve always been curious about this is jesus important to jews at all i thought he was thought of only as a prophet if that s true what do they celebrate easter for
