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It originated as a 14th century Latin hymn. This would be Catholic, as I don't recall Protestant writing Latin hymns in that time period. So there.

Wrong wrong wrong. There were Baptists writting lots of hymns in the 14th century (they certainly weren't singing the Catholic ones!). But we burned all of them (the songs) before they could be passed down to today.

Hope you had a blessed Easter!

Re 37534,66,70 Easter comes from the word Isthar, a pagan fertility god. The Easter tradition was started by Constantine. I'll stick with Passover.

I can live with celebrating our Lord's ressurection and calling it "Pesach". "Easter" is pagan. Which was my original point. Maybe you should change your name to "ignorant"?

I have a problem with the Lord's resurrection day being named after a pagan goddess. If that makes me ignorant so be it. Easter=Ishtar. If you disagree perhaps you should change your screen name.

Steven, you claim Constantine had something to do with it, despite being told otherwise. That is the problem. The "Easter" tradition is only a factor in the English language. Your entire objection falls apart. It is ridiculous.