It is Not "Easter", it is Resurrection Day!!!

        Every year of my Christian life my soul has cringed when I heard people say they were celebrating "Easter". Even as a young boy of 11 or 12, I had read in the Book of Judges and other places in the Bible about the Worship of Baal, and Ishtar the Goddess of Fertility, ( she was a goddess of erotic "love" also know as Astarte, Ashtaroth, and later in Greek mythology as Aphrodite; her symbols included, phalic and female body sculptures,  the Rabbit or "Ishtar Bunny" a reproductive symbol, and the "Ishtar Egg" which likewise denoted fertility and was used in a game where dyed eggs were hid for the children, at least where the cult didn't itself sacrifice children). [And you thought modern business enterprize had invented "Easter Baskets"?]
     As I read the Bible it said: " And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. 13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. "`
Judges 2:11-13
     And:  They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 106:34-38

        So this Resurrection Day, Celebrate the RESURRECTION of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Don't call it "Easter". Don't buy chocolate bunnies, and hide eggs, and celebrate pagan games and goddesses. Jesus is the Reason for this season too, not a false goddess. Not the game the world has made of the Most Victorious Day in Christian History.