Happy Passover or Happy Easter? Pagans vs. Christians
As we get closer to Passover, Resurrection Sunday and Good Friday my mailbox is getting inundated with colorful mail outs from area churches inviting my wife and I to the their “Easter Celebration”
Being curious and interested to find out why a church in the Bible Belt would celebrate Easter or rather “Eostre” which is the correct spelling I called up their administrative offices with my question:
Why is your church celebrating the west Germanic pagan spring goddess of sexual fertility and dawn?
Studying past history, an 8th century monk called Bede wrote in his journal “The reckoning of Time” that during the month of April the Anglo Saxon pagans celebrated and honored the goddess of fertility Eostre (Easter) in April which obviously has nothing to do with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Then in the 20th century it was not possible to market Resurrection Sunday as it would offend all those atheists and pagan reproduction worshipers who are also consumers of products, so the name Easter was used to help sell chocolate bunnies and those cream filled eggs.
Not only was the name Easter used for commercial use, modern paganism used the Anglo Saxon goddess of reproduction (Eostre) in one of their eight Wiccan festivals in a great celebration of group copulation.
One church official took my call and said she would pass along my question and comments mentioned above to the pastor who no doubt approved the massive and very expensive mail out promoting this Anglo Saxon goddess of fertility Easter.
The recognized symbol of this Anglo Saxon goddess is actually the hare not the crucifix so let’s hope these churches that so kindly sent out these colorful mailers next time add the hare mating with a rabbit and remove the crucifix so as not to be categorized as hypocritical.
So I will wait until next year when these same churches mail us the same Happy Easter mail outs thus again losing another opportunity for them to receive a donation from us.
My family and I wish all of you an upcoming Happy Passover, Resurrection Sunday and Good Friday.
©2025 Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare. All rights reserved.
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To Geoff Ross: Respectfully, you wrote, “… inviting my wife and I …”.
Here’s a constructive grammar suggestion for an all-too-common error. Take your wife’s name out of that reference and see if it still makes sense to you: “… inviting I …”. That doesn’t sound correct, does it? That’s because it’s not.
That’s how you can always check to see if you are using the correct pronoun for the circumstance. You want and need a direct object pronoun – “me”, not a subject pronoun – “I”.
Your sentence should read, ” … inviting my wife and me …”.