Why Do Christians praise the goddess Eostre (celebrating Easter), but Try to Forget Saturn (renaming HIS season "Christmas")?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 1, 2021 2:06pm CST
I know they really "intend" to celebrate Jesus Christ on both days, but that's not 'the name on the check' (and I don't think I've ever tried to cash a check that wasn't written to me by-name).
I haven't been able to find 'what the Catholic Church says about this' (especially when they changed the response "And also with you" to “And with your Spirit”; “I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault,” to “that I have greatly sinned”; “Maker…of all that is seen and unseen,” to “all things visible and invisible;” “Begotten, not made, one in being with the Father,” to “begotten, not made, con-substantial with the Father;” and “Lord I am not worthy to receive you,” to “Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.”)
Maybe it's just American Catholics that still call it Easter, like "That's the American Way" or something, But--with people starting to get more "woke" about names for things ("French Fries" were briefly "Freedom Fries," "Columbus Day" is now "Indigenous People's Day" in a few States, and I STILL haven't heard what they changed the name of the former "Washington Redskins" to yet (other than using the words "Washington Football Team," etc.)--https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/renaming_the_holidays.html
They shoulda changed the American name of the holiday from 'Easter' to something like "Resurrectmas."
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
1 Apr 21
'Easter' (and equivalent names in other Germanic languages) is only used by English and other Germanic languages. Nearly all other languages use variants of the Latin 'pascha' which is derived from the Hebrew word 'pesach'.
Why worry about the naming of Easter when we daily give obeisance to the Sun, the Moon and an assortment of Norse and Roman gods and occasionally refer to Christmas as 'Yule'. The reason that Saturn is only remembered on Saturday and not at Christmas is, I think, because he wasn't an important god to the peoples that Rome conquered and the winter festival was better known as Yuletide.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1 Apr 21
I did a little more digging & found out that the 'Easter' that Catholics use means something more like "eastern, toward the Sun rise" 
I guess I'm offended that The Internet won't shut up about it being named after Eostre/Ostara!
I guess I'm offended that The Internet won't shut up about it being named after Eostre/Ostara!@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
1 Apr 21
@mythociate The Catholics that you're referring to have twisted the meaning of the word to their own purposes. It's true that the word 'easterly' exists in the sense of 'in or from the direction of the East' (compare with 'northerly', 'southerly' and 'westerly'). The word 'eastern' also refers to things from the direction of the east. The ONLY use of the word 'Easter' is to describe the time of the Christian festival and it most definitely DOES derive from the name of a rather obscure pagan goddess of the dawn, about whose worship practically nothing is known except that she was worshipped enough to have a month named after her, and, apparently, the dawn of the Spring equinox in particular.
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@RebeccasFarm (89831)
• Arvada, Colorado
1 Apr 21
You have very good points there. Very good indeed.
I hate that they changed all that in Mass..I only knew the Latin Mass, not the English one, and then they changed all that too.
I call it Easter because its bloody Easter time to get all sorts of sweet candies. lol..nah not really that was only when I was a kid..no Peeps for me anymore
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