Easter

=== Non-observing Christian groups ===
Many [[Puritan]]s saw traditional feasts of the established Anglican Church, such as All Saints' Day and Easter, as [[abomination (Bible)|abominations]] because the Bible does not mention them.<ref name="Daniels89">Daniels, Bruce Colin (1995). Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England. Macmillan, p. 89, {{ISBN|978-0-31216124-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Roark|first1=James|last2=Johnson|first2=Michael|last3=Cohen|first3=Patricia|last4=Stage|first4=Sarah|last5=Lawson|first5=Alan|last6=Hartmann|first6=Susan|title=Understanding the American Promise: A History, Volume I: To 1877 |date=2011 |publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|page=91|quote=Puritans mandated other purifications of what they considered corrupt English practices. They refused to celebrate Christmas or Easter because the Bible did not mention either one.}}</ref> Conservative Reformed denominations such as the [[Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland]] and the [[Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America]] likewise reject the celebration of Easter as a violation of the [[regulative principle of worship]] and what they see as its non-Scriptural origin.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Regulative Principle of Worship|publisher=Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland|access-date=12 April 2022|url=https://www.fpchurch.org.uk/about-us/how-we-worship/the-regulative-principle-of-worship|quote=Those who adhere to the Regulative Principle by singing exclusively the psalms, refusing to use musical instruments, and rejecting "Christmas", "Easter" and the rest, are often accused of causing disunity among the people of God. The truth is the opposite. The right way to move towards more unity is to move to exclusively Scriptural worship. Each departure from the worship instituted in Scripture creates a new division among the people of God. Returning to Scripture alone to guide worship is the only remedy.|archive-date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214205134/https://www.fpchurch.org.uk/about-us/how-we-worship/the-regulative-principle-of-worship/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Minutes of Session of 1905|publisher=Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America|date=1905|page=130|quote=WHEREAS, There is a growing tendency in Protestant Churches, and to some extent in our own, to observe days and ceremonies, as Christmas and Easter, that are without divine authority; we urge our people to abstain from all such customs as are popish in their origin and injurious as lending sacredness to rites that come from paganism; that ministers keep before the minds of the people that only institutions that are Scriptural and of Divine appointment should be used in the worship of God.}}</ref>

Easter is rejected by groups such as the [[Restored Church of God]], who claim it originated as a pagan spring festival adopted by the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pack |first=David |title=The True Origin of Easter |url=http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.html#c|publisher=The Restored Church of God |access-date=24 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426025504/http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.html |archive-date=26 April 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Okogba 2019">{{cite web | last=Okogba | first=Emmanuel | title=A philosophical critique of Easter celebration (1) | website=Vanguard News | date=2019-04-21 | url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/a-philosophical-critique-of-easter-celebration-1/ | access-date=2023-04-23}}</ref>

[[Jehovah's Witnesses]] maintain a similar view, observing a yearly commemorative service of the [[Last Supper]] and the subsequent execution of Christ on the evening of Nisan 14 (as they calculate the dates derived from the lunar [[Hebrew calendar]]). It is commonly referred to by many Witnesses as simply "The Memorial". Jehovah's Witnesses believe that such verses as {{bibleverse||Luke|22:19–20|KJV}} and {{bibleverse|1|Corinthians|11:26|KJV}} constitute a commandment to remember the death of Christ, though not the resurrection.<ref name="BBC 2006">{{cite web | title=Religions - Witnesses: Jehovah's Witnesses at a glance | website=BBC | date=2006-08-30 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/witnesses/ataglance/glance.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215065417/https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/witnesses/ataglance/glance.shtml | archive-date=2022-12-15 | url-status=live | access-date=2023-04-23}}</ref><ref name="jw.org">{{cite web |title=Easter or the Memorial{{snd}}Which Should You Observe? |url=http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp19960401/origin-of-easter-not-in-bible/ |work=Watchtower Magazine|publisher=Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania |access-date=11 April 2014 |date=1 April 1996 |archive-date=18 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418134842/http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp19960401/origin-of-easter-not-in-bible/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Members of the [[Religious Society of Friends|Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)]], as part of their historic ''testimony against times and seasons'', do not celebrate or observe Easter or any traditional feast days of the established Church, believing instead that "every day is the [[Lord's Day]]," and that elevation of one day above others suggests that it is acceptable to do un-Christian acts on other days.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brownlee |first=William Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fgpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA243|title=A Careful and Free Inquiry into the True Nature and Tendency of the ...|date=1824 |access-date=20 June 2015|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801065800/https://books.google.com/books?id=1fgpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA243|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://qfp.quaker.org.uk/passage/27-42/| title = See ''Quaker Faith & practice'' of Britain Yearly Meeting, Paragraph 27:42| access-date = 21 April 2014| archive-date = 8 June 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210608190613/https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/passage/27-42/| url-status = live}}</ref> During the 17th and 18th centuries, Quakers were persecuted for this non-observance of Holy Days.<ref>[http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/1112/EarlyQuakerTop10.htm ''Quaker life'', December 2011: "Early Quaker Top 10 Ways to Celebrate (or Not) "the Day Called Christmas" by Rob Pierson] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206202629/http://www.fum.org/QL/issues/1112/EarlyQuakerTop10.htm |date=6 February 2012 }}</ref>