Whats the connection?:confused:

There is none.

But people have taken pagan traditions and attempted to graft them on to Jesus.

The connection is there. But it is only in the minds of those who do not know the will of God.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

The Christian hoiliday schedulers tried to coopt another pagan holiday, with reasonable success - but a few traces of the old fertility rites and symbols remain.

Think of it as a colonization. The ruins remain for children to play in.

David Sedaris has an account of a class of people learning French, in France, attempting to explain Easter to a Muslim womn in the class, all in French naturally.

IIRC the back-translation went something like "He nice, the Jesus, and this time we be sad because somebody make him dead today. The rabbit of Easter he bring of the chocolate. He come in the night when one sleep in the bed. In the hand he have the basket and foods. " Hate to vandalize the original, but that's ballpark.

This is just a guess....could it be :confused:....????.:bugeye:....EASTER!!!!!:xctd:

Whats the connection?:confused:

Jesus is a rabbit who shoots colored eggs out of his ass. Duh.

Whats the connection?:confused:

pagan ritual injected into christianity by the church.

pagan ritual injected into christianity by the church.

Just thought I should emphasize that.. ;)

Jesus is a rabbit who shoots colored eggs out of his ass. Duh.

Please pay attention to your spelling ! I take it you meant Jesus is a rabbi .....

I was taught that eggs are new life, just as Jesus rising from the dead is new life. Eggs also represent the trinity as one thing. The white of the egg, the yolk, and the shell. Father, son, holy spirit as one.
I don't know when coloring the eggs and easter baskets started.

Jesus is a rabbit who shoots colored eggs out of his ass. Duh.

Apologies for being an anally retentive old fuck, but shouldn't that be the Rabbit Jesus' cloaca?

Attention to detail, this is SCIforums.

Whats the connection?:confused:
I enjoyed easter as a kid. A light holiday. Playful. Colors.
Scientists may mock the religious with it and anal christians will think of it as evil, but children and pagans know better because they trust their own experiences. Neither stupid nor sinful....gosh, wasn't there something Jesus said about getting into heaven and being like a child....?
The Origins of Easter Celebrations
From Mary Bellis,

The meaning of the many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in both pre-Christian religions and Christianity. In one way or another all the customs are a "salute to spring" marking re-birth.
The white Easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox.

People celebrate Easter according to their beliefs and their religious denominations. Christians commemorate Good Friday as the day that Jesus Christ died and Easter Sunday as the day that He was resurrected. Protestant settlers brought the custom of a sunrise service, a religious gathering at dawn, to the United States.


Who is the Easter Bunny?
Today on Easter Sunday, many children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.
The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Long ago, he was called the "Easter Hare", hares and rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility. The custom of an Easter egg hunt began because children believed that hares laid eggs in the grass. The Romans believed that "All life comes from an egg." Christians consider eggs to be "the seed of life" and so they are symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Why we dye, or color, and decorate eggs is not certain. In ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Persia eggs were dyed for spring festivals. In medieval Europe, beautifully decorated eggs were given as gifts.

What a nice answer

it is just another see we do this to marketing ploy by christianity to convert pagans

Pretty clever. Just like the Jews did to previous pagan worship of nature, just like Muslims did with their previous Gods. Just like Tibetan Buddhism. Religion undergoes evolution just like animals, sometimes swapping genes, recombining with errors, additions and subtractions.

I prefer to look at it as pagan desires undermining repressive regimes, either internalized or external.

jesus was a rabbi. the word rabbi comes from the word rabbit because jesus was originally a rabbit

jesus was a rabbi. the word rabbi comes from the word rabbit because jesus was originally a rabbit

peter was the rabbit don't you watch south park

jesus was a rabbi. the word rabbi comes from the word rabbit because jesus was originally a rabbit

I though the symbolism in Watership Down was Buddist.

How about Bugs Bunny ?

How about Bugs Bunny ? Zoroastrian.

I though the symbolism in Watership Down was Buddist. Not the Bud, but the Egg - Eggist. Only the Dog had a Buddist nature.

How about Bugs Bunny ?

Definitely not Buddhist: his strengths lay elsewhere. Wile E. Coyote was clearly a Flagellant, however.

but i got a cold shower on my skinn when i see how naive people are....

While still alive on the cross, Jesus demanded that the pope be a rabbit and not a human. A secret organization was created, "The Hare Club For Men" who dressed up as bunnies and secretly met to not hear words of wisdom from the pope rabbit on how to live ones life.

google the story of eostre.