That’s the story I heard during several months as a pagan and going to religious services “sky clad” or naked.

When a warlock, a male witch, showed up and behaved like an alpha male, I returned to agnosticism.

The version I remember reading was, Christians took the pagan holiday Ishtar, pronounced Easter, and contorted it to the current form. It was originally a celebration of fertility and the return of spring. The celebrations depict Rabbits and chicks as we all know how rabbits be doing which is why they represent fertility, and chicks hatching from their eggs being symbols of life and growth. It was also the time of year when crops were planted and the people prayed to the goddess Ishtar for a bountiful harvest. Some lore has also eluded to the teachings passed down from the ancient sumaríans who recorded on tablets the method of planting and growing crops which according to their records was passed unto them by their gods the Annunaki. Either way, the real reason was to celebrate the return of spring, fertility, and bountiful harvest of crops. Not some cheesy self-serving poser staked on a cross who was martyred... although his existence in real life likely never took place to begin with. Lol