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fred_conty said:
You people of little faith. I still believe in the Easter Bunny. I suppose all doubters will now be saying there is no Santa Clause. And just where do we get all those beautiful colorful easter eggs? From the Easter Bunny of course. That’s why we have so many. And he’s the one who makes all those little chocolate bunnies during Lent.

I think it is time all the doubters begin to straighten out, fly right, and quit scaring everyone with their villanous gossip.

Ps. I heard confidentually that Mary Magdalene kissed the Easter Bunny and that’s why his cheeks are so red.
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]What, no santa clause, oh you barbarian.
 
How strange. My polish-catholic family’s celebration of Easter (Wigilia) is nothing like the “typical” celebration you describe, so your premise is a straw man. But the deeper flaw is a misunderstanding of how culture works. No one here is an ancient Banylonian. It is only in English that our holiday carries the Easter name, and the etymology is more closely related to the word east and the idea of “dawn” and " resurrection" than it is of the goddess Eostre. For instance, just because we have a day of the week called Thursday, doesn’t make us Vikings either. Bigger picture, Christianity appropriates pagan symbols because Christ overwhelms the pagan ideas. Christ is not a corn- god dying and being re grown in spring every year, rather He is God of corn (and all creation). Corn is the way it is because Christ who made it is the way he is. When ancient religions recognize and honor the cycles of the seasons they catch a glimpse of the truth about the God who is there.
 
truthquester said:
What do chocolate bunnies and colored eggs have to do with Easter?:confused:🤷
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Ostara, Eostre is where we get “Easter” from. Ostara, Eostre was the celebration of the Spring Equinox…Innana, Astarte, held some animals as sacred…rabbits for one were fertile and bountiful. Eggs are a symbol of the Divine Feminine. The egg is a fertility symbol, as are rabbits…they have nothing really to do at all with Christianity other than perhaps the egg was used to teach about the trinity. Shell, white, yolk…still an egg.

They are symbols, rabbits and eggs, of fertility which heralds the Spring Equinox.
 
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Ostara, Eostre is where we get “Easter” from. Ostara, Eostre was the celebration of the Spring Equinox…Innana, Astarte, held some animals as sacred…rabbits for one were fertile and bountiful. Eggs are a symbol of the Divine Feminine. The egg is a fertility symbol, as are rabbits…they have nothing really to do at all with Christianity other than perhaps the egg was used to teach about the trinity. Shell, white, yolk…still an egg.

They are symbols, rabbits and eggs, of fertility which heralds the Spring Equinox.
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Which is simply a part of nature. Catholicism, unlike some forms of Protestantism, has never negated the natural in its quest for the spiritual. Rather, the spiritual is built on the natural, which is why our sacraments are tangible using earthly things, such as bread and wine, water and oil, salt and candles, etc. We see no disconnect between nature and God at all.
 
Bklynguy said:
What do Christmas trees have to do with the birth of our Lord?
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The association of evergreens with Christmas comes from the Northern Hemisphere. An evergreen appears lively even in the midst of the dark & cold of winter. They represent Jesus, who comes to impart life in a world made dark and cold by sin. That’s not all, though. An evergreen tree also anticipates the life-giving cross, the tree of life, while holly with red berries anticipates the bloody crown of thorns.
 
aspirant said:
The association of evergreens with Christmas comes from the Northern Hemisphere. An evergreen appears lively even in the midst of the dark & cold of winter. They represent Jesus, who comes to impart life in a world made dark and cold by sin. That’s not all, though. An evergreen tree also anticipates the life-giving cross, the tree of life, while holly with red berries anticipates the bloody crown of thorns.
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Yes, using a pine tree to symbolize Christ’s birth comes from the legends about St. Boniface of Germany who converted the pagans from sacrificing their young people to a large oak tree. He suggested putting evergreen branches in their homes as reminders that in Christ we have everlasting life for the evergreen does not die in winter, but keeps it’s needles, unlike other trees that “die” during the cold months. It was to replace a pagan practice of human sacrifice with a symbol of the resurrected Christ. Prince Albert brought the Christmas pine tree tradition with him when he married Queen Victoria and it became all the rage–being transported to America a bit later.
 
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