Passover Easter Seder
I love Easter. For years, however, I couldn't call it that in good conscience. When I was about 17 years old, I began to ask questions about my faith and about traditions surounding it. Why did we meet on Sunday? Why do Evangelicals, Anglicans, and Catholics do communion differently? Where did the Christmas tree and other holiday traditions come from? Upon discovering some answers, I became zealous for what I now understood, or at least thought I understood. One such "understanding" was about Easter. I learned that the word "Easter" was related to "Aster," meaning star, and to my horror, related to the ancient fertility goddess Astarte, or as she was called in the Bible, Ashera. Oh dear. All along, Christians have been wishing each other a "Happy Easter" on the holiest day of the Christian calendar! I linked the fertility goddess to other emblems of fertility, such as bunnies and eggs, and upon further research realized that pagans all o