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This page is outrageous. Even if the name easter was taken from a pagan holiday doesn't mean that the name is pagan. It was adapted by christians and is accepted by almost every christian group. Are you going to call those christians pagans. That's a little much conservapedia --[[User:Double Edge|Double Edge]] 11:49, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
This page is outrageous. Even if the name easter was taken from a pagan holiday doesn't mean that the name is pagan. It was adapted by christians and is accepted by almost every christian group. Are you going to call those christians pagans. That's a little much conservapedia --[[User:Double Edge|Double Edge]] 11:49, 31 March 2008 (EDT)
== Church usage of "Resurrection Sunday" instead of "Easter" ==
Are there any examples of actual churches using Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter? I Googled the term and didn't find much, certainly not enough to convince me that the term Easter is becoming denigrated. The christiananswers.net source is weak in that it doesn't give any actual examples of churches changing terms. I have found plenty of churches that still use the term Easter, though. Saddleback Church[http://www.saddleback.com/index.html#], the United Methodist Church[http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.2514885/k.63E6/Lent_and_Easter_Resources.htm], at least one Catholic congregation[http://parishcalendar.com:8080/93/19811] (example taken from a pretty conservative part of the US), Thomas Road Baptist Church[http://home.trbc.org/index.cfm?PID=18511] (of Jerry Falwell fame) all use the term Easter, not Resurrection Sunday. (Please note that the links will likely not be relevant after this coming Easter.) I propose that we change the wording so that it doesn't suggest that eschewing the term Easter has become mainstream or even close to it. [[User:Corry|Corry]] 10:28, 9 April 2009 (EDT)