WHY MOST CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE EASTER AND KEEP DOING SO IN 100% GOOD CONSCIENCE:  Most encyclopedias and dictionaries have said the name of Easter is from an ancient non-Christian pagan goddess named Eastre, this being what an ancient British scholar named Bede once guessed, and yet it has also been noted that the name Eastre may just as easily have come from the Old English or Anglo-Saxon word for East or Eastern.  In fact, as to the name “Easter,” Christianity came to Europe and later America from the direction of the East.  To be exact it came from the Middle East, and besides this, formerly many Christians believed Christ would return from the east to resurrect people, possibly thinking of Matthew 24:27 which says the resurrected Christ will return out of the east. Those opposed to celebrating Easter also claim the eggs and rabbits used during Easter season are the vestiges of ancient pagan fertility rites when the facts are that Christians have used eggs and rabbits to symbolize new life as in the resurrection of Christ which is what the holiday is about.  Further, the apostle Paul wrote that we have Christian freedom about if we want to celebrate or not celebrate different holidays.  He says this at Galatians 4:10 and Colossians 2:16.   Please read and meditate on those scriptures, contrasting with what they say and what those opposing Easter and other holidays teach to be "the truth."  To all true Christians, the Bible itself is the truth and Paul truly says in the Bible that there is freedom about such things. Furthermore, note that all the days and months in the English language are named after pagan gods and goddesses and yet those wrongly attacking Easter as "pagan" commonly use those very same names.  Rings and money also came from pagans, but those attacking Easter also use rings and money.  Some Christians in the Bible even have and kept "pagan" names such as Apollo and Junius. The cross is prominent at Easter.  Opposers have claimed Christ didn't die on a cross but on an upright stake or pole and the cross is a horrible murder weapon.   Frankly, archaeology and forensics say it definitely was a cross, and Paul says to boast of the cross for Christ turned it into a symbol of the resurrection hope. (Ga 6:14, 1 Cor 1:17-18)   Therefore, for these many reasons, it is wise to hold fast to our Christian joy, regardless of what those opposed to celebrating Easter or for example the pro-Christ holiday of Christ, the sharing of communion wine and bread, etc, have been mistaught and told to misteach ourselves in turn, noting also that joy such as comes with these holidays is one of the fruits of God's own Holy Spirit. (Ga 5:22)