What do bunnys and eggs have to do with Christianity.?

Question

This question is for Christians only please *nudge nudge, wink wink*

Reigan, its ok my fun has already been ruined,

Answer 1

Attracting new members who currently have bunnies and eggs as part of their belief system.

And if that doesn't work then torture and threats of death usually do.

Answer 2

As Christianity, after it became the state religion of Rome, began to grow and move into areas of other cultures, it adopted pagan holidays of those areas as its own and "Christainized" them.

One such holiday was "Aeaster", a Roman spring holiday celebrating the end of winter and the return of spring, the time of planting and new growth, etc.

Aeaster had a symbol of a rabbit (a usually very sexually active creature that produces litters of baby bunnies and, thereby, a sign of the spring birthings) that gave eggs away as sign of the "birth of Spring".

The Christians simply added a resurrection story for Yoshua bar Yoseph and kept the rest. The pagans of that time probably appreciated it and were more likely to join in with something familiar than something totally foreign.

To put it simply, it was an advertising poly that seems to have worked well.

Answer 3

Nothing really. Most Christians do not think Easter is all about bunnies and eggs.

There are really two "Easters", the Christian one and the pagan one. The Christian one is to do with the resurrection of Jesus and the pagan one is to do with bunnies and eggs. There is a tenuous link between the two, however, as resurrection and eggs both represent new life.

Answer 4

Rabbits and eggs have been associated with spring time in Western cultures from long before Christianity.

Many Christians seemed to think that the egg represented the trinity; other Christian traditions hold that the egg represents the resurrection, and may have been used to explain the resurrection story to young children who had no concept of death. No one seems to know exactly why we dye eggs, other than the fact that it is fun.

Likewise, it seems that certain Christian traditions used the hibernating rabbit to explain the resurrection to young children; however, since the rabbit represents spring, and Easter was traditionally celebrated in the spring, the rabbit and the eggs may have simply been borrowed from earlier pagan Roman springtime holidays.

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If you are trying to imply that ALL of Christianity is just warmed over paganism -- based on the fact that a few ancient & harmless pre-Christian Roman traditions were carried over into modern western society -- then why aren't all pagans converting to Christianity? Obviously you do not believe your own propaganda.

Answer 5

nothing Easter is a Babylonian Queen that made her and her sons as gods and that is where it stated

The origin of Easter
Queen Semiramis claimed that Nimrod Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god. The birth of Semiramis' next illegitimate son, Tammuz, somehow, Semiramis convinced the people that Tammuz was actually Nimrod reborn. Before long, in addition to worshipping Tammuz (or Nimrod reborn), the people also worshipped Semiramis herself as the goddess of fertility. Both Nimrod and Tammuz where her sons. In other cultures, she has been called Ishtar, Ashtur and yes, Easter.

as far as the bunny and egg goes:
As you may remember, the Mother Goddess Semiramis (Easter) is associated with the Moon. In other words, the Easter bunny symbolizes the Mother Goddess.
The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. They believed an old fable about an egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates River. From this marvelous egg - according to the ancient story - the Goddess Astarte (Easter) [Semiramis], was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter

Answer 6

Heh . . . my favorite is a lot less well known and far less widespread than either Eostre/Ostara/Astaroth or Yule borrowings.

It's December *13th,* St. Lucia's Day in Sweden. In Scandinavian communities here in Texas, they still celebrate it as well.

The "feast of lights."

Young unmarried girls dress in white robes and wear crowns of lit candles. Young boys wear tall pointed white hats with gold stars on them, and follow them in the procession.

Afterwards, everyone eats special ginger cookies known as "Lussekattr," or "Lucia's cats."

It just boggles my mind. :-)

Answer 7

Nothing whatsoever.

They are mankinds way of diverting attention away from the ressurection of Christ to a retail holiday featuring bunnies and eggs.

Answer 8

Bunnies and eggs are associated with birth and reproduction - popular concepts for springtime holidays, of which Easter is one.

Answer 9

Nuthing it came from paganism


Blessed Be Willow

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Answer 10

The same thing truth has to do with Christianity - absolutely nothing, but for some reason the Christians associate the two.

Answer 11

None...Maybe as much as Easter and Christmas has to do with the Birth, Death and Resurrection of Christ.