31 Comments so far

1. Daver had this to say about the topic:

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   It didn’t. The Easter Bunny and Easter eggs are SECULAR customs. Secular customs, by their very nature, don’t ever “come out’ of religious beliefs.
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   Santa Clause is actually based on the real Saint Nicholas.
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   You’re confused because you are trying to reconcile secular customs and religious belief as if they originated from the name place at the same time. You’re mixing apples with oranges here.
   The easter bunny is strictly SECULAR, while Jesus Resurrection is the REAL religious point of Easter.
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   I’ll say it again – the easter bunny is a secular custom.
   The Resurrection of Christ is the religious reason for Easter.
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   Yes. In spite of the easter bunny being strictly secular, there is something we can learn from the easter bunny; something that has to do with the real religious easter message.
   The eggs that the easter bunny delivers are signs of NEW LIFE. The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus merits for a rebirth; a NEW LIFE eternal in the spirit.

2. AlexisL had this to say about the topic:

   The eggs are symbolic of the ending of the Lenten fast and the start of the Easter celebration. Devout Christians used to fast from meat and eggs during Lent.
   The bunny comes from a German myth about hares laying eggs which is first noted in the 17th century. It is thought to arise from the similarity between hare’s nests (they don’t burrow) and some bird’s nests.
   As to the idea about pagan origins, this is mostly a modern myth. Evidence for a goddess called “Eostre” is poor, evidence for any stories about her is non existent. Neither is there any evidence that any of the secular Easter customs come from a pagan religion. None.

3. Brandon Lee had this to say about the topic:

   The eggs are colored and when in the grass resemble mushrooms found in Siberia where that and the santa claus thing come from. The people of that time got their kids to search the forest looking for mushrooms that they considered sacred, and they fruited this time of year.
   “pharmacratic inquisition” on google video is how I came to that conclusion.

4. greensho had this to say about the topic:

   it is like most of Christian celebrations: make-believe=
   nothing to do with the truth
   The Easter Bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have its origins in Alsace and southwestern Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1600s. The first edible Easter Bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800s and were made of pastry and sugar.
   The Easter Bunny was introduced to America by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s.[2] The arrival of the “Oschter Haws” (a phonetic transcription of the German Osterhase[3]) was considered one of “childhood’s greatest pleasures,” similar to the arrival of Kris Kringle (from the German Christkindl) on Christmas Eve.
   According to the tradition, children would build brightly colored nests, often out of caps and bonnets, in secluded areas of their homes. The Oschter Haws would, if the children had been good, lay brightly colored eggs in the nest. As the tradition spread, the nest has become the manufactured, modern Easter basket, and the placing of the nest in a secluded area has become the tradition of hiding baskets.[4]

5. Blappers had this to say about the topic:

   It’s two unrelated holidays that have similar broad themes and would be observed at vaguely the same time. Missionaries to northern Europe allowed pagans to continue observing certain customs, incorporating similar Christian ideas. The spring celebration of Eostre, with symbols of new life (rabbits, eggs, flowers, etc.) was combined with the resurrection of Christ. In Eastern Europe, there is a custom of making crosses out of wheat straw, which symbolizes the death of the grain of wheat at the cross and the new life of the seed. Both had a theme of death and rebirth. We’ve expanded the Easter part a lot since Europeans discovered chocolate in the New World. Who can oppose that?

6. M S had this to say about the topic:

   Easter Bunnies and eggs and such are pagan symbols for Spring that got picked up for one reason or other by people celebrating the Christian holiday in the spring.
   If there was a cute little bunny handing out chocolate eggs at Golgotha I don’t remember reading about it.

7. Snow Globe had this to say about the topic:

   Easter was the celebration of fertility and rebirth, honoring the goddess Eostre. Bunnies are eggs are classic symbols of fertility. None of these things had anything to do with Jesus. Like Christmas, the early church circumvented a pagan celebration and inserted their own beliefs into it as a means of converting the masses.

8. tudza had this to say about the topic:

   The tradition of easter is pagan as is christmas.
   the rituals of easter come from mythology such as the rabbit symbolizing the god of fertility. It has nothing to do with Jesus or the resurrection.

9. Allie Q had this to say about the topic:

   Why do we even celebrate that? I mean, isn’t it enough to celebrate this guy’s birthday when millions of people don’t follow that religion?
   How about… we decided to have a holiday just for kids and it happened to end up around the same time that “jesus got resurrected”…?
   I mean, I’m not religious in any way, so I sort of find topics like this funny to debate. Sorry if I’ve offended you in any way

10. Kiki had this to say about the topic:

    Eggs and bunnies have nothing to do with Jesus. On Easter I celebrate Jesus not chocolate eggs. Jesus died during the Passover and that is when we as Christian should celebrate not on the pagan day of Easter.

11. Jillusio had this to say about the topic:

    The chocolate is just a modern marketing gimmick, but the eggs come from pagan celebrations. They symbolized newness or new birth, and Christians decided to use that symbol in relation to Jesus’ rising from the dead.

12. angel had this to say about the topic:

    There were originally a lot of Spring festivals for fertility and good crops.
    The rabbit and eggs both represent fertility, I guess.
    Christianity blended in their resurrection beliefs with the already-existing pagan ones.

13. Meghan W had this to say about the topic:

    the egg symbolizes new life just like jesus dying and becoming alive again through resurrection, that’s what my mom told me when i was little but i have no idea what the bunny has to do with it.

14. petrof_s had this to say about the topic:

    Eostre I think thats how youe spell it. Eostre is a pagan/wiccan holiday honoring a goddess of spring and rabbits. Thas where it came from. Im christian but we have similar hoiday traditions as the pagans.

15. vanessa had this to say about the topic:

    There is no symbolism in it, Easters just stupid. It has no point and theres no reason a cristian should celebrate it. It sounds really like Christmas, what does Santa gota do with Jesus birth? Makes no sense eh

16. God is My Light! had this to say about the topic:

    Christianity purposely created holidays during pagan holidays and adopted some of their symbolism as an attempt to make them convert. That is where the eggs, the Christmas tree, etc come from.

17. Soul Calibur IV had this to say about the topic:

    pagan tradition, but then most of Christianity is, proof is found everywhere, but check out…http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/babylons/de…

18. Ms. Taurus ¤Blackhoof Buccaneer¤ had this to say about the topic:

    It’s Pagan traditions that the Church allowed people to keep after they became Christians. Except for the chocolate. That’s just yummy, yummy commercialism.

19. supermal had this to say about the topic:

    The eggs and the Easter bunny are Pagan. They don’t represent Easter at all, they represent fertility and spring. Sad, huh?

20. Ghoast Kitteh had this to say about the topic:

    It is a pagan fertility ritual. Roman leaders mixed it with commercial Christianity to make the pagans feel at home in the religion.

21. stephani had this to say about the topic:

    check out this link to a great magazine that deals with many holidays. It’s called Holidays or Holy Days.http://www.ucg.org/booklets/HH/

22. onelm0 had this to say about the topic:

    I think they’re actually pagan symbols that were used, unknowingly, to entice kids into getting into Easter.

23. sisjadie had this to say about the topic:

    humans made up the whole bunny thing and when you think of it bunnies dont even lay eggs. people are trying to mess up a christ filled day.

24. Anirban7 had this to say about the topic:

    “the easter bunny and eggs and whatnot came from an ancient pagan religion”

25. bree had this to say about the topic:

    The eggs are a symbol of rebirth (resurrection)

26. Kimmie had this to say about the topic:

    BECAUSE BACK IN THE BIBLICAL DAYS THEY SCROGGED LIKE RABBITS.
    THAT’S WHERE THE DAMN BUNNY CAME FROM.

27. pappy12a had this to say about the topic:

    Happy Eoestre!

28. Miss Thang had this to say about the topic:

    Perhaps one of the women who visited the tomb layed an egg when she saw he wasn’t dead?

29. Konswayl had this to say about the topic:

    it was a way to make the pagans convert. Silly really.. but so is Christianity.

30. Emo Winehouse had this to say about the topic:

    good question always wondered about that…….

31. Wife of a Pisces/Mother to Virgo had this to say about the topic:

    All the jesus things were pinched from the pagans