Jesus, Rabbits and Colored Eggs

There is none.

But people have taken pagan traditions and attempted to graft them on to Jesus.

The connection is there. But it is only in the minds of those who do not know the will of God.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days
 
The Christian hoiliday schedulers tried to coopt another pagan holiday, with reasonable success - but a few traces of the old fertility rites and symbols remain.

Think of it as a colonization. The ruins remain for children to play in.

David Sedaris has an account of a class of people learning French, in France, attempting to explain Easter to a Muslim womn in the class, all in French naturally.

IIRC the back-translation went something like "He nice, the Jesus, and this time we be sad because somebody make him dead today. The rabbit of Easter he bring of the chocolate. He come in the night when one sleep in the bed. In the hand he have the basket and foods. " Hate to vandalize the original, but that's ballpark.
 
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This is just a guess....could it be :confused:....????.:bugeye:....EASTER!!!!!:xctd:
 
I was taught that eggs are new life, just as Jesus rising from the dead is new life. Eggs also represent the trinity as one thing. The white of the egg, the yolk, and the shell. Father, son, holy spirit as one.
I don't know when coloring the eggs and easter baskets started.
 
S.A.M. said:
Whats the connection?:confused:
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I enjoyed easter as a kid. A light holiday. Playful. Colors.
Scientists may mock the religious with it and anal christians will think of it as evil, but children and pagans know better because they trust their own experiences. Neither stupid nor sinful....gosh, wasn't there something Jesus said about getting into heaven and being like a child....?
The Origins of Easter Celebrations
From Mary Bellis,

The meaning of the many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in both pre-Christian religions and Christianity. In one way or another all the customs are a "salute to spring" marking re-birth.
The white Easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox.

People celebrate Easter according to their beliefs and their religious denominations. Christians commemorate Good Friday as the day that Jesus Christ died and Easter Sunday as the day that He was resurrected. Protestant settlers brought the custom of a sunrise service, a religious gathering at dawn, to the United States.


Who is the Easter Bunny?
Today on Easter Sunday, many children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.
The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Long ago, he was called the "Easter Hare", hares and rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility. The custom of an Easter egg hunt began because children believed that hares laid eggs in the grass. The Romans believed that "All life comes from an egg." Christians consider eggs to be "the seed of life" and so they are symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Why we dye, or color, and decorate eggs is not certain. In ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Persia eggs were dyed for spring festivals. In medieval Europe, beautifully decorated eggs were given as gifts.
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Pretty clever. Just like the Jews did to previous pagan worship of nature, just like Muslims did with their previous Gods. Just like Tibetan Buddhism. Religion undergoes evolution just like animals, sometimes swapping genes, recombining with errors, additions and subtractions.
 
jesus was a rabbi. the word rabbi comes from the word rabbit because jesus was originally a rabbit
 
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