About the same time as Passover, the Church again decided to
sanctify their holy day as a method of converting pagans to
Christianity.  So why not chance the name just a little, clean it up and get rid of their sacrifices, and make it a Christian Holy Day.  It was
then that Eastre's day became known as Easter.

    Also, remember our old friend Constantine the Roman emperor?
The man who decided to change the Sabbath from the seventh day to
the first day of the week, and then muscled the Church into accepting
that.  The man who dared to change God's Word, well he struck again.
You see Constantine convened the council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. a
council that he hand picked I might add.  This council unanimously
ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the
Christian World on the first Sunday after the full moon following the
vernal equinox; and if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and
thereby coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should by moved
to the following Sunday.  Therefore Easter and Passover would
become separated, and have been ever since.  This is why we
celebrate Easter of a different day each year!

   Of course, in the modern World today the term Easter has become
a purely Christian word. No one offers their children before phallic poles,
or worships the statue of a woman with many breasts on Easter day.
But Christ is equally pushed out, and I can't help but believe that our
old enemy 'satan' is behind the whole affair. He simply kept introducing
distractions such as eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets until the
resurrection of Jesus became an afterthought, and finally not thought of
at all, except by a very few. Thus the true significance, of Christ's
triumphal victory over death itself, is lost in the shuffle I am sorry to say.

 

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     your servant

 

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