What does the Easter bunny have to do with the return of Jesus?

[Boo]

eggs and birth maybe?

[slydevl]

Cadbury cream eggs are good.

Sex is good.

Bunnies like to have sex.

Bunnies = eggs????

[VOR]

The first christians not being of noble birth could only eat rabbit and eggs. And of course chicklen on sunday.

So it soon be came custom to share a hearty meal of rabbit qnd aigs to celebrate the christ being brutally totured and killed. Over the years the ritual became more stylized ultimately evolving into the present easter bunny and eggs we know today. Peeps were finally introduced as a means of disposing of inert spongy stuff that accumulated during the year. This year it seems place kicking litle dogs has been added to the ritual, whether this activity will evolve into a permanent part of the easter ritual is still out with the jury. I suspect hallmark will soon be entering the little dog business.

[gridfaniker]

eggs and birth maybe?

It's like the lights and stuff around Christmas-time. It gives the non-believers a reason to join the celebration and not have to explain their hypocrisy.

[Shrapnel]

I know this is not the place for this but...I really like those black jelly beans.

[VOR]

I know this is not the place for this but...I really like those black jelly beans.

you have to be the only one in the whole world

[hasbeen99]

What does the Easter bunny have to do with the return of Jesus? eggs and birth maybe?

No idea. If I were to hazard to guess, I'd probably say, "not much."

[muff_spelunker]

you have to be the only one in the whole world

Nah, my ex-girlfriend does, that's why I broke up with her. I wasn't kissing that nasty mouth.

[Ssstern]

Here read it yourself.

http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm

[TimTam]

The first christians not being of noble birth could only eat rabbit and eggs. And of course chicklen on sunday.

So it soon be came custom to share a hearty meal of rabbit qnd aigs to celebrate the christ being brutally totured and killed. Over the years the ritual became more stylized ultimately evolving into the present easter bunny and eggs we know today. Peeps were finally introduced as a means of disposing of inert spongy stuff that accumulated during the year. This year it seems place kicking litle dogs has been added to the ritual, whether this activity will evolve into a permanent part of the easter ritual is still out with the jury. I suspect hallmark will soon be entering the little dog business.
this is one of the funnier things i have heard today.

[Superfluous_Nut]

isn't easter the day jesus emerges from his tomb and if he sees his shadow, he crawls back in and we get 6 more weeks of spring or something?

[VOR]

isn't easter the day jesus emerges from his tomb and if he sees his shadow, he crawls back in and we get 6 more weeks of spring or something?

no you're thinking of richard simmons

[TimTam]

isn't easter the day jesus emerges from his tomb and if he sees his shadow, he crawls back in and we get 6 more weeks of spring or something?
if you are catholic you get 6 more weeks of guilt. baptists just get 6 more weeks of whisky.

[hasbeen99]

Here read it yourself.

http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm

Good link, Ssstern. Thanks.

So the Easter bunny and eggs are borne from pagan beliefs in the 'rebirth' of nature in spring. Makes sense, I guess. :thinking:

[Isaac OddVelvet]

Kinda like the fir tree and Santa Claus at Christmas. There are a lot of pagan holidays that Christianity took over and modified.

[hasbeen99]

Kinda like the fir tree and Santa Claus at Christmas.

I was thinking the same thing.


There are a lot of pagan holidays that Christianity took over and modified.

Yep, and the pagan origins seem to be regaining lost ground.

[Superfluous_Nut]

Kinda like the fir tree and Santa Claus at Christmas. There are a lot of pagan holidays that Christianity took over and modified.
actually, santa claus isn't pagan. i don't think the fir tree is, either. i think lutherans were the first to start with the fir trees. and santa claus is truly saint nicholas, tho the red suit and stuff comes from the night before christmas poem. hard to suggest a saint has pagan origins.

ironically, tho, while people say materialism is co-opting christmas. the christians did indeed co-opt it first. while the trappings were somewhat different, the celebration did exist. christians just decided they'd celebrate at the same time the pagans did so they'd be able to co-exist easier. probably not unsimilar to the kwanza today. piggyback on a known holiday and it's a lot easier to celebrate your own thing.

[gridfaniker]

actually, santa claus isn't pagan.


Santa Claus may not be pagan, but Santa Reb certainly is. :reb:

[DaveW]

buying a dead tree for $80-$100 to go in your house for a couple of weeks is almost a big a ripoff as valentines day.

[Boo]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116560,00.html

[Shrapnel]

buying a dead tree for $80-$100 to go in your house for a couple of weeks is almost a big a ripoff as valentines day.

Tell me Davey, where do dumbasses by their Christmas trees?

[spud]

you have to be the only one in the whole world
NOPE..they are the BEST, don't tell anyone else, we can have them ALL

[Miss tery]

The Jesus Puzzle (http://pages.ca.inter.net/~oblio/home.htm)

[hasbeen99]

The Jesus Puzzle (http://pages.ca.inter.net/~oblio/home.htm)

(see also the "Jesus Myth" thread)

[vpkozel]