2007-04-05 10:01:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Actually, eggs, bunnies and chicks are going back to pagan rituals celebrating spring and the renewal of life. Many of the christian holidays were combined with pagan ones in an attempt to convert pagans to christianity. Christmas was origionally in october, but moved to the same day the pagan celebrated winter solctice in an effort to combine the two. The same with Easter and the Vernal equinox. So to celebrate the renewal of live we celebrate all the little animals. Mostly bunnies and chickens because they are cute and prolific. So the giftgiving of wintersolctice is combined with the gift giving of Christmas, and the Celebration of life and renewal is combined with the Celebration of life everafter, and the souls cleansing by Christ. Plus he did come back from the dead, which fits in with the spring equinox celebration of everything coming back to life of spring after the death of winter.
The decoration of eggs go back to the russian rominovs and the fabrige eggs, Which the the Czar gave each of his family members for easter for many years, and Santa of course goes back to a man named Nickoli who dropped a bag of gold down the chimney of the girl he loved so her father would have enough of a dowrey to satisfy both families and they could marry.
2007-04-05 12:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by goddessmelanisia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rabbit, or hare, is symbolic for fertility and the eggs have to do with life, because Romans believed that eggs are where all life comes from. The act of hatching out of the egg was seen as resurrection. Also, the hard boiled egg also brings an end to the fast. Traditionally, and still, some Catholic churches bless the eggs. These two things do not have much to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ much at all on their own, but traditions of the time as well as beliefs more or less molded what we call Easter. Spring time is commonly a time of birth (bunnies and eggs).
2016-05-18 00:19:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing at all!!! Just as a jolly fat man coming down your chimney with gifts has nothing to do with Jesus being born!
I have four sons and we celebrate Easter and Christmas because we are Christians. But we do not do the whole Santa and the Easter Bunny routine because it has nothing to do with the holiday we are celebrating. I have, over the past few years, decided that i don't want to celebrate this way because it teaches greed and selfishness instead of giving and love. It also bothers me that the only holidays where someone (or something) breaks into your house are the ones where we celebrate the birth of our Savior and His dying for us on the cross....think about it....on Halloween, children dress up, knock on doors and ask for candy....and its supposedly the most "pagan" holiday of all!
2007-04-05 10:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by sugarfoot71674 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
EXACTLY!!!!
About as much as santa claus and elves have to do with God's Son being born in a manger in Bethlehem.....
NOTHING!!!
For me, I do not use the 'e' word.....For me, it is Resurrection Day..My salvation is far too precious to me and the awesome
price that was paid when Y'shua (Jesus) laid His life down to pay for ous sins is beyond man's comprehension really....but satan wants to make a mockery of the PRECIOUS BLOOD that was shed for us all by diverting the attention of the world with the likes of bunnies and elves and reindeer, ect. He does
EVERYTHING he can to keep unsaved people from finding out the truth and trivalizing the coming of Jesus into this world
to save us and so the world actually ends up believing that to believe in santa claus and the easter bunny IS part of being a Christian in the western world....when it is NOT!!!!!
JESUS DID N O T DIE FOR SANTA CLAUS AND HE DID
N O T DIE FOR THE EASTER BUNNY... HE DIED FOR US!! AND IT IS GOD BEFORE WHOM EVERY PERSON
COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT -- NOT SANTA CLAUS!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-05 10:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by angelique1225 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red eggs have been a symbol of rebirth and fertility since before Christ. In Christiianity it's a symbol of the Blood of Christ, and in Judaism the Passover. It's a very ancient tradition.
2007-04-05 10:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Easter has been commercialized. It's kinda stupid that the school's call any religious holidays like Easter, "Spring break". It's Easter break for goodness' sakes!!
2007-04-05 10:07:15 · answer #6 · answered by Prayer Warrior 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter doesn't have anything to do when Jesus died on the cross. Easter is all about when he was resurrected
2007-04-05 10:15:16 · answer #7 · answered by ken s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That whole eggs and chicks thing is supposed to signal new life or something like that.
But I hear ya.
2007-04-05 10:05:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same thing a fat man with a bag of toys has to do with His birth.
2007-04-05 10:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not a friggin' thing. I hate how commercialized this holiday has become.
2007-04-05 10:05:22 · answer #10 · answered by kitten lover3 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋