Easter. What's with all the plastic eggs, chocolate rabbits & such?

[jeager106]

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

 

[Sees]

Pagans can't have all the fun It's not like doing an egg hunt or eating chocolate bunnies is reverential worship of a pagan God.

I know some will equate it to partaking at the table of demons.
It's no more such a thing than is having a BBQ on Memorial Day.

 

[Bunyip]

Well because Easter used to be a fertility festival, it is even named after an old word for egg.

 

[Nietzsche]

Rabbits & eggs are symbols of fertility. The name is derived from IIRC, Eostre/Ostara, the name of a month in some of the Germanic calenders. And the chocolate is because if you don't like chocolate **** you.

 

[Nietzsche]

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

Because if you removed all the pagan influences from Christianity you'll be left with nearly nothing.

 

[jeager106]

Because if you removed all the pagan influences from Christianity you'll be left with nearly nothing.

THAT is a very, very, great point. One of my pet peeves with Christendom in fact. It is briming with paganism, fact is the early
church deliberately blended paganism to gain pagan converts.
Ever notice painting that show saints, Jesus, with the gold glowing halo?
Ancient sun god pagan symbol don'cha'know?
There is much, much, more.
And I happen to love chocolate but not the cheap stuff bunnies are made of.

 

[Riverwolf]

THAT is a very, very, great point. One of my pet peeves with Christendom in fact. It is briming with paganism, fact is the early
church deliberately blended paganism to gain pagan converts.

And if they hadn't done that, your variant of Christianity wouldn't exist, and you and I together would likely still be celebrating an unbroken line of Europe's native traditions.

 

[oldbadger]

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

You're just p-ssed off because you're Missus won't wear that bunny-suit you bought her.
Mine does!
Come ooooooon......Easter!

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Chocolate eggs are a real rip-off anyway....I must remember to visit the supermarkets next week to buy up some cheap unsold stock!

 

[JayJayDee]

You're just p-ssed off because you're Missus won't wear that bunny-suit you bought her.
Mine does!
Come ooooooon......Easter!

Please tell me Mrs old badger isn't in her 80's The image is putting me off my dinner.

 

[JayJayDee]

Because if you removed all the pagan influences from Christianity you'll be left with nearly nothing.

Yep, that is exactly true....except that you are talking about Christendom, not Christianity. Please don't confuse them.

 

[Jumi]

THAT is a very, very, great point. One of my pet peeves with Christendom in fact. It is briming with paganism, fact is the early
church deliberately blended paganism to gain pagan converts.

I rather think it was to keep them.

 

[SomeRandom]

Because it's chocolate!!! What other reason could you possibly need, man?!!

 

[Augustus]

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

I thought it was supposed to be about chocolate eggs and bunnies?
Where'd this bloodied chap on a cross come from?
Oh, noooooooo don't tell me that Easter is influenced by a monotheist redemptive/salvation celebration!
Why do heathen lands decorate with churches and crosses and such?

 

[oldbadger]

Please tell me Mrs old badger isn't in her 80's The image is putting me off my dinner.

What!? Only 80's? She'll be 103 next October.

 

[k4c]

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

 

[Revoltingest]

Please tell me Mrs old badger isn't in her 80's The image is putting me off my dinner.

OldBadger is in his late 90s, so Mrs Badger is so relatively youthful, that she's dang near jail bait.

 

[Flankerl]

Really tells how unfriendly someone is if they object to chocolate.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Probably for the fun of it. Jesus didnt have spot lights and drama shows in His day, but Churches still use them in sermon amd on holidays. I see no confliction with painting eggs. Its not intended outside of the joy of secular related easter. Nothing more.

If Jesus was here, wonder if Hed paint and egg or two knowing he was doing it for fun.

I thought easter was supposed to be about Jesus?
Where'd the rabbits, chickens, eggs, come from?
Oh, nooooooooooooooooo, don't tell me easter is influenced by a pagan fertility celebration!
Why do Christian churchs decorate with plastic rabbits & eggs, & such?

 

[Nietzsche]

Yep, that is exactly true....except that you are talking about Christendom, not Christianity. Please don't confuse them.

I would argue that both have immense pagan influence. Nothing is created in a vacuum, after all, and there will be undoubted mixing of ideas & faiths over literally two thousand years.