Easter has Nothing to do with Bunnies or Eggs...

It's about Jesus. Atheists just created this american celebration style to rebel and insult Christians like us. Has nothing to do with Cute little rabbits or colorful eggs.

Easter is about the Ressurection of Jesus and it's a christian celebration, not even catholic. Parents who paint eggs and dress up like the Easter Bunny are sad. Probably angry and hate Jesus that's why they do that. I just think it's wrong to ignore the history of Easter...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

 

Easter has had to do with rabbits and eggs sense before any of us were born

 

Some true to that, but today's Easter is about Jesus.


[video=youtube;3u3bXyAJb28]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3bXyAJb28[/video]

 

Please cite source.

Love thy neighbor as thyself... judge not lest the be judged... bah, those verses are more like suggestions than actual rules.

 

[video=youtube;WYWfSIY_sOU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYWfSIY_sOU[/video]
I do agree that Easter is pagan, but christians had the right to make it their own see this video.

 

Who says theyre ignoring it because of an easter bunny? That's strange because at the catholic church I went to when I was young they had church organized easter egg hunts for the children and still do. One year they even had him drop eggs from a helicopter. If you believe then by default you already know all about easter from your belief. An easter bunny isn't going to change that. Does it confuse it for you? Or do you think you aren't confused but others are? I think Jesus would be happy on this day many little children and their parents celebrate and have joy regardless of the reason why don't you?

 

https://tinyurl.com/kl4w768


Cliff Schrader: Easter, bunnies, eggs share importance to us Christians

On Sunday, Christians worldwide will mourn and celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most holy of days. Yet, its significance might well be upstaged by colored eggs and the Easter Bunny.

How does a secular bunny fit into Christianity’s most defining beliefs? Our Easter observance of Jesus of Nazareth’s resurrection actually has as its namesake the pagan goddess “Eastre.”

Easter appears to have begun as a pagan festival co-opted by Christian missionaries, this time in the second century.

The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with a festival glorifying Eastre. It was also a time when public observance of Christian holidays would have been very dangerous.

The missionaries did what they did best and set about converting the Saxon tribes to Christianity.

In time, the missionaries surreptitiously incorporated Christian dogma as Saxon converts were encouraged to continue celebrating their festivals, but with Christian dogmas.

As luck would have it, Eastre’s festival coincided with the Christians’ observance of Christ’s resurrection. Eastre eventually morphed into Christianity’s Easter.

In 325 A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine I, the godfather of the Christian movement, convened the Council of Nicaea. The council issued the Easter Rule that today determines which Sunday Easter will be celebrated.

Based on the Easter Rule, which will give you a headache if you attempt to do the calculation yourself, Easter can move among several different Sundays between March 22 and April 25, depending on the sun, the moon and different interpretations of the Easter Rule.

What is the significance of colored eggs and rabbits to the most important celebration in the Christian world? The rabbit symbol originated with the pagan festival of Eastre. It was the Saxons’ symbol for their goddess … Eastre.

It is believed the Germans brought the symbolic rabbit to America, but it was pretty much ignored until after the Civil War when Easter caught on.

The Easter egg also predates any Christian traditions. Exchanging colored eggs in spring is a custom that was centuries old by the time Christians first began to celebrate Easter.

Easter uplifts us with the feeling of rebirth and feeds our undying belief that God’s people have a birthright

 

I think people who celebrate bunnies overall are idiotic. Why don't you celebrate cats or dogs or lizards having Eggs? or birds? I grew up catholic and was ashamed by my sisters. They used to buy those plastic eggs and put money in them for my nephews to find. Oh boy. That was a real waste of time.


I just don't undestand why Pagans or whoever they are have a whole day of Holy Week or a whole day to celebrate a Bunny. Are you serious? An entire day in church of pray over a Bunny God? I just find it Mind Bending.

 

They arent celebrating the bunny, they are celebrating "with" the bunny. If that's not true then many catholic churches are now "pagans"?!

 

I think easter eggs and the like is a good example of how easy it is to get someone to conform into a tradition with no grounds. I usually try to keep a respectful tone with people and ideas I disagree with, but I think I can stretch as far as suggesting that the way some Christians think easter eggs and bunnies as silly is the same way some non-religious think of certain aspects of religion.

I can't think of a reasonably consistent criticism of a harmless tradition as easter eggs that is not also a criticism against body-of-Christ crackers.

 

Parents who dress up as the Easter Bunny hate Jesus?

 

Rituals are intended to foster community and fellowship, be it religious communion, taking an oath, or fraternities dressing in togas and bonging some beer. They may have different implications and be done for different underlying reasons, but they are all outward expressions of something inward. As for Easter Eggs, I really never got into them even when I was a kid and I think the chocolate bunnies taste horrible.

 

Hey guys - forget Easter.

Let's have a real celebration:




Happy 420 to Everyone!

 

the more you read about pagan roots of Christianity, the more you start to see the truth of how it all fits together...

http://answering-christianity.com/abdullah_smith/cross_pagan_origins.htm

"The Vatican was constructed upon the site of an ancient Pagan sanctuary because the new is always built upon the old. In the same way Christianity itself has as its foundations the Pagan spirituality that preceded it."

even the cross was Pagan before it was claimed to be christian

"The cross is a pagan symbol that was adored in Egypt thousands of years before Jesus was born. The Roman Catholic Church adopted the cross symbol at least 600 years after Jesus was supposedly crucified. Even the early Christians of North Africa rejected the wooden cross after Tertullian condemned it.

Tertullian confessed that pagans worshiped crucified saviors hanging on a cross. "

 

I'm lazy but I'm certain that reading some of the links here will clear this all up. To me, it was nothing but a strategy to commercialize another religious event.

 

Hmmm you insult atheists by lying about them insulting Christians? Seriously what an idiotic thing to do.

The very term Easter is from a pagan holiday, the bunny was a symbol of the goddess and eggs were another symbol. This all started in Europe- not in the U.S.

So argue for the correct way to celebrate Christ- I have no objection to that.

but insulting those who you disagree with seems about the least Christian way to accomplish it that I can imagine.

you appear angry and hateful.

 

can be if you want it to be, but it's not to everyone....

 

Easter

Break the box and shed the nard;
Stop not now to count the cost;
Hither bring pearl, opal, sard;
Reck not what the poor have lost;
Upon Christ throw all away:
Know ye, this is Easter Day.

Gerard Manley-Hopkins

 

No, it's about Eostre, not Jesus. Jesus just hijacked her festival. It was christians who stole it, just like they stole yule. Few things are more annoying than ignorant christians insisting that the true meaning of our pagan festivals is to honour some silly jewish hippie.

 

I heard about someone who might agree:

A family’s Easter egg hunt took a dark twist this week when a mother searching for chocolate with her three-year-old son found a dead body lying under the deck of her house. Tara Hanouskova was in the garden with her son helping him look for eggs when she noticed a pair of feet wearing tennis shoes in the dark of the tight space under her raised patio area. Prior to the discovery Ms Hanouskova had been smelling a terrible odour that had been getting progressively worse over the past week, she told The Knoxville News Sentinel.--- http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/body-found-during-family-easter-egg-hunt-30202307.html

 

The easter egg/bunny tradition is neither atheist nor American in origin.

 

No you stole traditions from us. You celebrate Christmas with your fat Santa and Easter with an overgrown bunny? who is more insane? You guys follow Pagan festivals from years ago, thousands of years ago that have nothing to do with today. You worship a fat man and a man dressed up in a Bunny suit. Oh really. Easter is like Christmas, everyone ignores jesus and makes it up as they go. What does it have anything to do with colored eggs and wrapped gifts? Nothing. Its like Atheists just like to do this to rebel against us christians and NOT celebrate anything Jesus related. So they grab old rituals and put them on us here in america.

 

Speaking of "ignoring the history of Easter"...

It's fairly obvious that Christianity spread by assimilating the traditions and beliefs of civilizations it was introduced to... That's why most Christmas traditions are actually pagan... http://www.christianpost.com/news/christmas-history-the-pagan-traditions-111374/

Here's the "history of Easter" from a Christian source: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract1.html

 

I fixed it for you:

No you stole traditions from us. You celebrate our mid-winter solstice with your jewish hippie, and spring equinox with some whacky story about the jewish hippie becoming a zombie? who is more insane? You guys follow weird festivals from years ago, thousands of years ago that have nothing to do with today. You worship a magic sky man and his 'son' (which is really himself - go figure), the jewish dude. Oh really?. Equinox is like Solstice, everyone ignores these important seasonal rituals and makes it up as they go. What does any of it have to do with the harvest, and marking the important halfway point through winter? Nothing. Its like Christians just like to do this to rebel against the idea of living in harmony with nature, and NOT celebrate anything earth related. So they grab old rituals and put them on us here in America

 

Pot, meet kettle. Seriously, you don't see how worshipping a jew zombie is even sillier, and even less relevant? Also, your ignorance of history is amusing.