The same friend mentioned in the post below asked, “Why is it called Easter? Why isn’t it called Resurrection Day?” I explained that it is actually called “Sacrificial Lamb Day” and tried to succinctly say why a sacrificial lamb is needed, but stuffed it up really. Sacrifice is a strange concept these [...]

Many Orthodox people call Easter “Pascha”, which really annoys me, since we have a word for Easter in English, it’s “Easter.” Everyone knows what that means, more or less.
But anyway, it does kinda make sense, since the word Pascha comes from lamb, and Jesus represents a sacrificial lamb to take away sins. [...]