Unfortunately, I sometimes refer to the [ modern ] holiday / celebration as 'Easter' ( for obvious reasons ) -- but, I know the real history -- and calling the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ 'Easter' is actually incorrect according to that history. And, the Lord is probably very disappointed that we use the name of a pagan 'festival' in association with his death, burial, and resurrection. But then, most Christians are completely unaware of the history...
A similar thing exists with 'Christmas' -- which is not actually the time of the birth of Christ.
A similar thing exists with 'Christmas' -- which is not actually the time of the birth of Christ.
Words change over the years so we can't make a blanket statement that Easter is a bad word. Like I said earlier the entire world uses Easter a purely and strictly Christian meaning.
Ēostre or Ostara (Old English: Ēastre [æːɑstre], Northumbrian dialect Ēostre [eːostre]; Old High German: *Ôstara (reconstructed form)) is a Germanic goddess who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name (Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth ), is the namesake of the festival of Easter in some languages. Ēostre is attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxonshad held feasts in Ēostre's honor, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus