Why is Easter Sunday called Easter? Is Easter your favorite holiday?

Denise, according to various sources, the name Easter has its origin with a goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre. In The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop claimed Eostre is actually a name derived from the Babylonian goddess Astarte. Hislop extended this connection to include goddesses from around the world: Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Venus, and others.

By this method, one could take virtually ANYTHING and do the same—even the “golden arches” at McDonald’s! The Encyclopedia Americana (article: “Arch") says the use of arches was known in Babylon as early as 2020 B.C. Since Babylon was called “the golden city” (Isa. 14:4), can there be any doubt about the origin of the golden arches? As silly as this is, this is the type of proof that has been offered over and over about the pagan origins of Easter.

The word Easter has absolute zero to do with resurrection of Jesus Christ the word Easter is derived from the following estrus! Meaning the time when animals are in heat! It's another pagan holiday that was mixed by the Greeks and the Romans with the Resurrection Day of Jesus Christ to make a holiday that made everybody happy my personal opinion you don't mix the time that animals are in heat with the celebration of Jesus Christ Resurrection it just doesn't show respect to God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Etymology

For some reason, the King James Version put the word Easter in place of the Passover. Perhaps it was already in use in 1611. However, it is just a word as no one worships a false god, but Jesus' resurrection. However, we are to do the same each and every Sunday, this one is no different.

The holiday's English name comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre. It's not my favorite holiday (Halloween is), but spring is my favorite season, so I'm always happy when Easter comes.

It's a grave error by whoever put it in the English Bible, and is used only by English-speakers.

In other countries the term is a form of the Aramaic word for Passover, Jesus being our Passover:

Afrikaans: Paasfees

Albanian: Pashkët

Breton: Pask Seder

Catalan: Pasqua

Chamorro: Pasgua

Cornish: Pask

Danish: Påske or Paaske

Dutch: Pasen or Paschen

Esperanto: Paskon

Finnish: Pääsiäistä

French: Pâques

Galician: Pascuas

Greek: Pascha

Icelandic: Páska

Indonesian: Paskah

Italian: Pasqua

Jèrriais: Pâques

Latin: Pascha

Norwegian: Påske

Portuguese: Páscoa

Scottish: Pask

Sicilian: Pasqua

Spanish: Pascuas

Swahili: Pasaka

Swedish: Påsk

Welsh: Pasg

The Eastern Orthodox Christian position is that Pascha is the most important day of the year. Everyone gets born; only Christ resurrected. So that's my favorite holiday/holy day.

It is my father in law’s favourite holiday.

Happy?

The word “Easter” first appeared in Christianity in the King James Version of the bible in Acts 12:4 as a translation for Passover. Since the King James Bible was widely disseminated in English speaking countries, the day became known as "Easter" but only in English speaking countries.. If you look in almost every other country the day is still called Passover. For example if you go to Mexico they celebrate Pasqua, the day Jesus rose from the dead. They do not call it Easter. So the term Easter can be traced back to a mistranslation in the KJV protestant bible. Whatever it is called, it is the meaning of the day that counts (Whether Passover or Easter).

http://jimmyakin.com/is-easter-a-pagan-holiday

To honor the Goddess Eostre, I like Halloween and the 4th better.

No. Halloween is my favorite