is there really any connection between the easter bunny/eggs and Jesus?

Question

I heard that there was some connection...i just dont see it!

Answer 1

The rabbit was a pagan symbol of spring. In attempts to bring the newer Christian religion and the already existing Pagan religions people have gotten the two confused and mixed in together.
Easter has nothing to do with Rabbits. Easter, the Sunday of the Resurrection, Pascha, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the moon. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day of his death by crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33.
The rabbits are left over bits of the Pagan Spring celebration used as symbols of fertility and the new birth of the season.

Answer 2

I don't think there is. Don't know for sure. Here's what info I've gathered: Easter (like Christmas) is the blending of a European pagan holiday and a Christian one. Easter (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eostre ) is a variation of a goddess' name. As I recall, she has something to do with the Spring time. Eggs are a symbol of birth, and rabbits... well "they breed like rabbits" comes to mind. Another thing is that the old pagans (much like the new Wiccans and Pagans today) based their spiritual calander on the positions of the Sun and Moon, since it is a Nature based religion. Easter happens to fall right around the Spring Equinox - the day that the days start getting longer and the nights get shorter. To a pagan this is a big event! Hence, they celebrate the coming of Summer, and the birth of new life.
Christians, coincidentally, right around the same time of year celebrate the Resurrestion (the Rise of the Son!) ...see the connection? With the Rising up of Jesus was to come the rebirth! The beginning of a new day! ... much like the coming of Summer.
I think both religions have wonderful things to celebrate this time of year, and the Catholic Church, in their way of absorbing the pagan Germans of old Europe into their culture, blended the two celebrations together.
(for Christmas, check out: birth of the Son, Jesus ~ birth of the Sun, Winter Solstice; Santa Claus ~ Holly King, "Yule")

Answer 3

There is no connection. Passover is the real name for easter. Somehow the pagan worshippers got the eggs and bunny mixed in with what we call Easter. We really shouldn't do it and some churches don't but most still do because of tradition and getting the kids involved with church. Easter is also one of those times when people will come to church even when they don't come any other time except maybe for Christmas.

Answer 4

Yes, the egg and rabbit tradition is from Pagan religion, but the church encouraged incorporation of them in a attempt to make conversion go a little easier. Same with a decorated tree for the winter solstice celebration, err, Christmas.

So I say yes there is a connection, because Christ and tradition was what ever the church said it was.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. I am sure the Son of God does not want His resurrection symbolized by a bunny and eggs. The bunny and eggs are a pagan ritual from long ago to welcome Spring, and to them, Spring meant fertility. Thus the bunny, who is always having babies. And of course, the egg. the ultimate sign of fertility

Answer 6

No.

It's an earlier Germanic Pagan tradition from their spring festivals. Hares and eggs are both obvious fertility symbols, which was part of the celebration of spring.

Answer 7

yep, they're both made up :D

Answer 8

not really