That was not posted, This was posted, "The day we celebrate the Resurrection which we call Easter was founded on prejudice and has pagan roots that date back thousands of years."
The Day in which was chosen is the issue.
In answering your question, Here is an excerpt taken from here
The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter
"Most historians, including Biblical scholars, agree that Easter was originally a pagan festival. According to the New Unger’s Bible Dictionary: “The word Easter is of Saxon origin, Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the eighth century Anglo–Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.” However, even among those who maintain that Easter has pagan roots, there is some disagreement over which pagan tradition the festival emerged from. Here we will explore some of those perspectives...."
Ah, see, that's the problem. It's true that the word "Easter" is of Anglo-Saxon origin, it is taken from an Anglo-Saxon month, Eostremonath, which roughly corresponds to April. According to the Ven. Bede the month is named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess named Eostre.
Here's the thing. Want to know what Bede tells us about Eostre? Maybe that she was a fertility goddess, or that she had a celebration named after her, or maybe people dyed eggs, or she was associated with bunny rabbits? Nothing. Bede tells us nothing.
But that's okay, we can just use some of our other ancient sources. Other ancient writers, archeological evidence. Small problem. There is none.
That's right, Bede is literally the only source we have. Outside of Bede there are people who use Bede's writing and then go on to invent elaborate speculations.
So we have what Bede wrote, and we have people, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years after Bede who have decided to speculate wildly on all sorts of things based on what Bede wrote.
So at best what does this mean? It means claiming Easter is Pagan is like saying celebrating Martin Luther King Day is a Pagan celebration of Janus because it happens in January. A statement that is, indeed, and at best, silly.
But then, there's this other small detail. Most people on the planet don't call it Easter. In fact, the only people who do are English and German speakers, almost everyone else calls it Pascha.
In Greek it is Pascha, in Latin it is Pascha, in Spanish it is Pascua, in French it is Pâques, in Portuguese it is Páscoa, in Dutch it is Pasen, in Italian Pasqua, in Danish it is Paaske, in Bulgarian it is Paskha, in Finnish it is Pääsiäinen, in Irish Gaelic it is Cáisc, in Welsh it is Pasg, in Russian it is Paskha
-CryptoLutheran
