So then knowing that easter is a pagan fertility ritual, should a Christian celebrate it?
Sure, I mean, do ya pass out candy on Halloween?
From the way I understood it, the Christian missionaries used the existing symbles of fertility and used them to show the triumph of life, and rebirth, over death. And by using objects (i.e rabbits, eggs, etc.) they were 'comfortable' with, it was easier to intoduce Christian beliefs. And it worked, because no one nowadays thinks of Easter being what is was. It's the day we rejoice in the reserection of Jesus.
BUT, as with the way we twist everything in this 'society' now, we dont celebrate Christ rising from the grave - we celebrate springtime. We dont celebrate Christmas and the birth of the Son, we celebrate Winter Soltise, Festivus, or whatever.