We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.
2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.
Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
Pretty ridiculous claim. Constantine is the boogie-man of all kinds of religious conspiracy theorists. I suggest reading Easter..Is It Pagan? by Ralph Woodrow.
For one thing, it was about 1700 years ago, not 2000 years ago. Additionally, the men who were at the Council of Nicea were individuals who had suffered for the faith, some losing body parts for their devotion to Christ. They did not cower to Constantine as conspiracy theorists claim. In fact, Constantine was an Arian and the council ruled that Jesus was fully God, and not a god like Arians claimed.
They had the New Testament for the most part. The official canon had not been recognized, but they had the books and they were mostly already agreed upon.
The Quartodeciman Controversy concerning Easter was much more complicated than you are presenting and the eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets were not a part of the early Easter observance.
Regarding the idea that the word Easter came from Ishtar, this is something that one monk, Bede, alluded to, but the more common position is that it is related to a word that has to do with springtime.
However, I guess it works for those who get their theology from National Enquirer-like sources of information and are ignorant of church history. I used to believe stuff like this. It comes right out of the playbooks of cults and atheists. Discredit Christianity so that you can claim your religion is the right one...
Here's a playlist concerning some of these issues:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpp6gpADZmIvE7eFPkvFFPKy_gQnSEMrx
I would also recommend Ralph Woodrow's book "Is Easter Pagan?". He used to teach that it was, but changed his mind after realizing that his source materials, largely Alexander Hislop's book "Two Babylons", was full of nonsense and misquoted references.
The basic presupposition of a lot of anti-holiday people is that Christians are worshipping Nimrod and Semiramis through observance of Christmas and Easter, and that the Roman Catholic Church is basically the Babylonian Mystery Religion..the worship of Nimrod and Semiramis. Supposedly Nimrod and Semiramis were a married couple and had a child named Tammuz. Tammuz is a pagan type of Jesus in Christianity, according to the Hislopites. Thing is, Nimrod and Semiramis never lived in the same century. So, those who say such things are simply displaying their ignorance.