easter is a celebration of Jesus' ressurection. How does that relate to chocolate bunnies and eggs?

Answer 1

Christianity has nothing to do with those inventions. Some very imaginative guy probably thought of making some money on the Easter idea and it clicked with the public.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.

From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf or, if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.

Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real Easter eggs -- those made of plastic or chocolate candy.

So there you have it: what brings smiles to children faster, a plain old egg or a nice, sugary chocolate bunny? :)

Further research reveals the following:

Egyptians and Persians used to dye eggs in spring colors and give them to friends as a symbol of renewed life long before Christ was born. The myths of several Eastern and middle Eastern cultures maintain that the earth itself was hatched from a giant egg.

Scholars believe the name Easter is derived from Oestar, a goddess of Spring and renewal. The rabbit or hare was the symbol of fertility, new life and of the moon in ancient Egypt. It may have become an Easter symbol because the date for Easter is determined by the moon. Also the ancient Egyptians called the hare Wenu, an insignia of the rising of the sun, Ra, and of the resurrective powers of Osiris.

Answer 3

Relate..?? ... do you mean, like relative ranking? Easy. The bible BS comes in last.

Eggs are first...
Chocolate bunnies are second...
All other candies (including marshmallow chicks) are solidly in third place...
Baskets and ribbons and cellophane wrap all come next...
Shredded cellophane grass makes the list, too...

Um... and I think that's the whole lot, isn't it? Oh yeah, I almost forgot about stuffed animals... they're sort of kool.

...everything else ranks as a no-account or an also-ran.

So.. there you have it. That's the real deal about Easter. What a bummer, eh? Not even a nationally televised sporting event... It's just about the most lame of all holidays. Even MLK day is better - it always falls on a Monday and schools close because of it.

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Answer 4

Who knows.. it was apparently a pagan festival to celebrate the spring. The rabbits and eggs came from the fertility aspect of spring. It also has roots in Jewish tradition as passover. It began on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring which is still the date it's celebrated today.

The adaption from pagan/Jewish religion to Christianity is similar to the adaption of Winter festivals Yule, Saturnalia, Winter Equinox and various other end of year celebrations into what is now Christmas.

Ignore anyone that gives details of a pagan goddess called Eostre/Ostara, this information has already been proven to be falsified. The relation between rabbits and certain pagan gods, however, is true.

Answer 5

The term Easter is actually a Pagan term, and this is where the eggs and bunnies come from. This is why I personally prefer to call it Resurection Sunday

Answer 6

Eggs are from the Pagan Holiday Ostara. Chocolate bunnies and the like are just commercializations of the holiday.

Answer 7

Don't know anymore then I know why many of the non-believers accept Christmas presents. But I believe Jesus is quite happy no matter how we celebrate Easter.

Answer 8

easter in it's entirety stems from the pagan sabbat of ostara. here is some more info:

The pagan origins of the Easter Bunny
Have you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits?

The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices.

In second century Europe, the predominate spring festival was a raucous Saxon fertility celebration in honor of the Saxon Goddess Eastre, whose sacred animal was a hare. The hare is often associated with moon goddesses; the egg and the haer together represent the god and the goddess, respectively.

Pagan fertility festivals at the time of the Spring equinox were common- it was believed that at this time, male and female energies were balanced.

The colored eggs are of another, even more ancient origin. The eggs associated with this and other Vernal festivals have been symbols of rebirth and fertility for so long the precise roots of the tradition are unknown, and may date to the beginning of human civilization. Ancient Romans and Greeks used eggs as symbols of fertility, rebirth, and abundance- eggs were solar symbols, and figured in the festivals of numerous resurrected gods.

Moving forward fifteen hundred years, we find ourselves in Germany, where children await the arrival of Oschter Haws, a rabbit who will lay colored eggs in nests to the delight of children. It was this German tradition that popularized the 'Easter bunny' in America, when introduced into the American cultural fabric by German settlers in Pennsylvania.

Many modern practitioners of Neo-pagan and earth-based religions have embraced these symbols as part of their religious practice, identifying with the life-affirming aspects of the spring holiday. (The Neopagan holiday of Ostara is descended from the Saxon festival.) Ironically, some Christian groups have used the presence of these symbols to denounce the celebration of the Easter holiday, and many churches have recently abandoned the Pagan moniker with more Christian oriented titles like 'Resurrection Sunday.'

Answer 9

the bunnies and eggs are just a representation of the season. the animals wake up from their sleep, and the birds lay eggs. someone just decided to use these signes of spring to commercialize easter like they did christmas to make $$

Answer 10

The eggs are there because in the northern hemisphere, it'd be Spring and that's when everything starts hatching and flowering...etc. Chocolate - I suppose to make money from it and make the eggs 'useful' You gotta have chocolate ^^