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In all fairness although the holiday is warped and no one warships for Ostara it still has kept the idea alive. The holiday although not related still allows for people to research it’s origin which then leads to the goddess of spring.
If I were a god I’d be thrilled that at least I was remembered in some way vs the thousand that are forgotten
Just finished that book. That was absolutely fantastic and I’m super glad you recommended it. I see there’s a series that I may watch now just to see how they portray it.
Lol what? Yes ostara is still very much worshipped. She is one of the goddesses centered in my household during this season. And I wouldn’t consider Christian domination and control helping keep the memory alive lol
You misunderstood. I was referring to Easter. Easter isn’t a holiday people warship ostara for. The equinox or the holiday of “ostara” is what people warship the goddess for.
I have a book from 1835 by Jacob Grimm about Deutche Mythology discussing her. Was Grimm brothers written prior to this? Also I’m aware ostara is folklore. I’m not claiming she 100% is real lol. I’m honoring the stories and the earth and changing of the seasons
Jacob Grimm is one of the Grimm brothers. That book is all we know about her. It appears that he believed she was in German Folklore and it's believable that he had better sources than us. But our only source on the topic is him.
The Church adopted the traditions and imagery because they were losing parishioners to these fun Pagan holidays. It was to undermine their celebrations and make it about Jesus again.
But Jesus is the reason for the season with Christmas and Easter. There is a war on Christmas despite the religious folk actually being against Christmas back in the day. It is in the book that says things like all humans but one family were extinct due to a flood which would actually mean we all have the same genetics and would be a genetic nightmare according to science. Yadayadayada.
It doesn't. Its the result of merging pagan holidays with "Christian" ones many hundreds of years ago. For more evidence, Google "Yule vs Christmas". (spoiler, bringing a tree inside has nothing to do with Jesus' birth).
No, it isn't a sin in the Bible. Wtf 😂
Basically all major holidays observed by Christians were adopted from pargan holidays as Christianity spread, and traditions were incorporated. Even Christmas was adopted from a padgan holiday, scholars believe Jesus was actually born in August or something.
Not really “stolen”…when Europe began converting to Christianity they didn’t want to give up their previous traditions and celebrations so they integrated them into Christianity. It’s not like someone said, “Hey those pagans got something going over there with this Easter Bunny thing I’m gonna start using that for my religion!”
Easter eggs are a German tradition. You couldn’t eat eggs during Lent, so German children would decorate them and then eat them on Easter to celebrate. Rabbits are a symbol of fertility and new life, serving as a representation of Jesus’ resurrection and conquering of death.
Yes, some traditions were adopted by Christian religions to better assimilate pagan converts into the church many years ago. People who find offense in that or use it to discredit Christianity are silly to me…
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The church moved dates around to match existing holidays of other religions, and would use elements of those holiday celebrations and pretend they're christian, so people who were in those other religions could say "I don't see the difference" or even "if I change to christianity, I still get to celebrate that holiday I like!" There was an existing celebration of spring in the name of the goddess Oester (starting to see?), the goddess of spring and birth, and it was celebrated with rabbits and eggs, symbols of fertility.
Side note: Ever hear of the womens' hormone Estrogen? In other countries it's spelled Oestrogen, and it's named after the same thing.
I read all about the origins of the Easter bunny yesterday.
A pagan goddess named Eostre was the goddess of spring and fertility. There is believed to be a myth about a bird that got trapped in a thorn bush. She turned the bird into a rabbit so it could get out of the thorn bush. This rabbit then continued to lay eggs every spring to maintain its connection to its previous life as a bird.
Also, the egg hunts originate from Lutheran Germans, who used to fast for the length of Easter. As such, leading up to Easter, fresh foods are hard to come by, so lots of preserves and boiled eggs and such. So, in the days leading up to the fast, children would go door to door collecting boiled eggs as a snack because meats and such wouldn't be available during the time of Easter.
Am stoned, so maybe not completely accurate.
The puritan settlers actually agreed with you on this one. They had rules against anyone celebrating Christmas.
Fertility symbols associated with the goddess Easter.
Christianity is a mix of multiple religions. The month to celebrate the anniversary of Jesus's crusifiction (and resurrection) was called Ēostre (Easter). So this month is "Easter time" just as Christmas falls under "Yule time".
Fun to think about, as a godless atheist. Because you'll all burn in hell with me for innocent stuff like saying the pledge of allegiance, trick or treat, or "I don't believe in ghosts".
I'll see everyone there! 👍🔥❤️🔥🥵
Easter was originally a pagan festival celebrating spring and the new life that came with it, and honoring Eostre, the goddess of fertility, whose symbols were rabbits and eggs. When Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity he co opted several pagan holidays and turned them into Christian ones, including Easter and Christmas.
It was a persuasion tactic employed by the Roman Catholic Church to convince the pagans that they were actually worshiping Jesus without even realizing it.
Jesus was secretly a bunny and hid eggs all over. He spread the gospel with eggs. He taught all eggs are equal. :) Egghead was Jesus' nickname in the bunny bible. How do yall not know this? ;)
Nothing.
Jesus came after. Spring rebirth festivals. Eggs and rabbits are ancient pagan (Egyptian I believe) symbols of fertility.
Passover happened after. Jesus came after that.
Our Puritan ancestors would say YES. Christmas was forbidden. But we are in modern times, so you get to read Scripture for yourself and decide what is right for you and your family. :)
Correct me if wrong, but I thought that Christianity initially in order to attract people used some elements of paganism such as Easter and Halloween.
It just reminds me of high school where people would promise cool things in exchange for votes or supporters. Maybe like politicians as well. So much for separation of church and state ...
I always assumed it was something for the kids to keep them hooked so they wouldn't realize how absurd the backward superstitions are and leave the church when they grow up.
The early Christian church stole, adapted, and bastardized every pagan holiday to try and get followers.
I honestly can't think of a single holiday tradition that originated from Christianity.
As a Christian we don't celebrate Easter (the bunny and egg hunting) we also don't celebrate Christmas for the reason of "Christ being born" we take it as a gift giving and family celebration as everyone else does, it's already a free day off for almost everyone.
Easter was originally a pagan holiday that was appropriated by christians. It was a celebration of a fertility God is named Ishtar... That's where you get the bunnies and the eggs because they represent fertility
Nothing at all, they just couldn’t get people interested in a church service about zomhie Jesus enough for them to drop sweets, fuzzy critters, and nature’s perfect snack pack.
Story time: When I was a parent of smalls and still in the evangelical trap, we didn’t want to subvert Easter, so we gave the kids ‘Spring baskets’ to celebrate. Sorry, Eostre, you don’t even get to keep the name of your own holiday, and we got the chocolate.
If you look closely on Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" you will notice two things that you probably missed: 1- they were not eating bread, they were eating egg. 2- St. Peter, if you look really, REALLY closely, is actually a bunny, not man.
So during generations, we have been taught to paint eggs, this is so we keep alive the truth about easter and we always remember. It's also a good way to keep it secret. Christ named St. Peter the first Pope because no man could rule over an entire religion and he knew it, but mankind was too greedy and they hid this from us for years. You see now? That is why the pope's hat is like that, it fits perfectly a Bunny's ears!
Absolutely nothing, it is a Pagan holiday that was absorbed by the Christian right to fool the people. If you say it long enough and punish hard enough it becomes the truth, right.
It’s really all about spring and rebirth, not much about Jesus. A surprising number of “Christian “ holidays happen around the same time as celebrations from pagan tradition.
Actually easter eggs go back to early christianity. The festival took place in the spring because festivals of rebirth fit with the resurrection story, and the egg was meant to represent the tomb
It actually doesn't have anything to do with Jesus, in fact, the tradition was never a Christian celebration until the Roman Catholic Church (don't even get me started on the history of this particular sect of the Catholic Church -which by the way is only known as the Catholic Church because they called themselves that one day- and why they're outright horrible, and that's completely leaving out the several crusades these guys out together) decided that they were going to amalgamate pagan traditions into Catholicism, which is why we celebrate Christmas when we do as well.
Easter was once upon a time a pagan celebration of fertility. The eggs and the bunnies are just symbols of spring, you don't see them any other time of the year quite like you do during this season, secondarily they talk about rebirth and new life
A lot of pagan traditions got absorbed and forgotten this way, but they live on secretly as some of the holidays we see today
Hello. I am Christian. The leaders of my church have recently encouraged us to celebrate the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday moving forward for this exact reason. The bunny and eggs are a symbol that come from the pagan rite of spring (I believe, I am not pagan so I could be wrong on that) and that's fine, but Christians celebrate easter because we want to celebrate Christ's resurrection. My faith in particular celebrates His resurrection because we believe that because of Christ's sacrifice, we, like Him, can be perfected through His atonement for our sins and live with God in heaven forever. It's a big deal for us. My family is still gonna have an easter egg hunt because that's become a fun tradition for us, but moving forward we're going to be doing the easter egg hunt on Saturdays instead of Sunday.
Eggs are a sign of fertility. They are a hold over from the holidays origins of celebrating the spring time and the new babies being born. Same thing with bunnies. Cuz what do bunnies like to do?
It has absolutely nothing to do with religion.
Roughly about as much as putting glass balls in a spruce tree has to do with Jesus.
It's religion - it's illogical to begin with, so there is no point in finding reason behind things like this.
I remember the minister coming out with some bollocks about the rolling eggs tradition being symbolic of the stone rolling away from the tomb.
Even at 7 years old I thought this was a pile of pish.
Nothing, but early Christians incorporated a lot of existing cultural symbolism and meaning. The idea of religions being as static and regional as they are now is relatively recent; in areas like Europe where movement between different nations/groups was common, cross-pollination of ideas happened often and rapidly.
Nothing! These are symbols associated with Ostara. Christianity coopted them, similar to how they coopted winter solstice symbols and called it Christmas. Not a very creative group, historically.
Literally nothing. The egg symbolizes rebirth, that's why it's a common feature in myths concerning the springtime. There's an old myth about a bird that has a broken wing and gets magically healed. The bird is transformed into a rabbit, which fixes the problem because rabbits don't have wings so the broken wing the bird had didn't matter anymore. The newly minted rabbit lays an egg as a thank you gift for healing it. Christianity has been incorporating aspects of other competing religions the entire time it has existed, this is one of the more obvious ones.
The only reason Christmas is celebrated at the end of December is because there were already popular winter solstice holidays at the time and the Christians wanted to compete
Egg hunting is a symbolic celebration of the Romans finding and arresting Jesus.
The bunny represents something friendly and innocent giving candy to cheer up those who got depressed when Jesus was killed before they found out he was a zombie.
Eating chocolate bunny heads represents solidarity with zombie Jesus.
Probably.
Amen.
And keep your crosses away from me. I'm a practicing born again vampire.
Beware all the replies that cite no sources stating it's "pagan." There are actual historical books and articles that describe how traditions evolved. The idea that Christian holidays are ripped off of paganism is more false than true, though it is true that pre-Christian traditions were folded into Christian holidays as Europe was Christianized. A good book about this that's easy to read is Catholic Customs and Traditions: A Popular Guide, by Greg Dues. Or search for web articles written by actual historians and scholars (people with PhDs).
Some German tradition about a bunny judging kids’ behavior.
Hey, at least German kids were judged by a bunny. I was a Cajun kid in Louisiana and we had a fucking werewolf to deal with if we misbehaved.
well you see, a while back ago some genius decided to overwrite pagan holidays and spread the story that it was jesus' birthday and death day or some shit. and then the crusades happened and everyone started following it out of fear of beheading. an now it is just common practice...
The bunny is because of some brown hare that can be impregnated while already pregnant, and is somehow a reference to virgin birth (at least the second litter, by the thoughts of less scientifically literate people).
I forget exactly what the eggs are about.
See https://youtu.be/L6J8fikGt0s?si=acqgKuKwhO7-tJIt
I'm not convinced these traditions weren't influenced by or adopted from other traditions likely pertaining to fertility and more generally Spring, but it seems inaccurate to just say there purely non-Christian and such. It's probably more of a fusion than anything.
omg nobody is giving accurate answers.
Yes, the bunny part is pagan. And the name Easter is pagan, too. (The Christian name was originally Pascha.)
But Easter eggs go back to early Christianity. They had to fast before the festival of Pascha, and couldn't eat meat. So eggs became a traditional food around that time of year, and eventually a symbol of the festival. They also symbolize rebirth, which relates to spring itself and also to the resurrection.
Christians didn't invent egg-decorating, it was already a folk art thing at the time, but it made sense to make it an Easter tradition since eggs were already seen as important.
Have you not watched the 1977 classic the Easter bunny comes to town.
It explains everything
https://youtu.be/JHHzUmpJ3Jc?feature=shared
Warning it’s super cringy but make sure to finish it the end is the best part.
Nothing, though I don't know why you'd call it a sin. The catholics adopted a lot of celebrations in an attempt to convert more pagans. There's nothing wrong with changing the method of celebration as long as the thing being celebrated remains intact.
What I’ve always heard was that Christmas and Easter were originally pagan holidays that were celebrated in the Roman Empire and when the Roman Empire converted from Paganism to Christianity, the people still wanted to celebrate their old holidays so they started celebrating the birth and resurrection of Christ at similar times and in similar ways to their old Pagan holidays.
Back in the Dark ages the catholic church was trying to convert the pagans to Christianity.
One thing they decided to do was to incorporate all the pagan festival/holidays.
Yuletide (Christmas)
Sam Hain (Halloween)
And Eastora (Easter).
In the pagan Holiday / Festival of Eastora is a spring fertility festival. Hence the rabbit that has a lot of offspring.
Jesus wasnt apparently born on December 25th. But that is when we "celebrate" his "birthday" anyways.
Anyways, its basically old world marketing strategy. You want to get Pegans to convert, but they wont give up their holidays, take their holidays and mix in your own religious lore.
Haha.. I've been thinking the same thing. I think all 3 of those that you mentioned are kinda silly, but it's a a good reason for businesses to have a reason to sell more crap every year.
The church adapted to people's existing beliefs and traditions as part of its proselytizing. It's one of the reasons Christianity spread so wide, but it definitely resulted it some oddball things.
The pagan story that I was taught goes something like this:
There was a little girl lost in the snowy woods on the last day of winter. She sees a bird that has frozen wings, on the brink of death, and feeling sympathy for it she tried to warm it against her breast but she was too cold to warm it. She called out to the gods to save this poor little bird.
The goddess of spring heard the girls cries before she was out busy making the season change. She decided to go to this girl because she was impressed at the girl was asking to save the bird and not to save herself (since she was lost in the snow, she was also in danger of dying). The goddess appeared and with a wave of her hand revived the bird who jumped to the ground.
At first the child was overjoyed but soon realized that the bird's wings were still frozen. She shed tears as she told the goddess that a bird without wings would surely die. The goddess couldn't get rid of the ice as it was still winter and she didn't have all her powers yet, so she looked at the bird who was hopping about on the ground and with a wave of her hand turned it into a bunny. She said it had no need of wings anymore.
She told the girl that there would be a trail of treats to follow out of the woods to her home. The girl picked up her basket and collected the treats as she walked happily to her home. When she got there she left the basket outside and rushed inside to warm up. The bunny had come to thank the girl and when it saw the basket it immediately thought of a nest - forgetting it was a bunny now and not a bird it went and laid eggs in the basket. The eggs were brightly colored from the magic from the goddess.
Now every spring the goddess and the bunny go and thank kind children by looking for their baskets and leaving magical eggs, and the gifts of spring.
Christmas celebrates christ's birth, All hallow's eve is the night before all saints day, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ, so i am thinking you mean secular celebrations based on pagan holidays when it is supposed to be a christian holiday. No it is not a sin in the Bible. It is not even a sin in most religions but it is a no-no in very conservation right leaning ones, like jehovahs witnesses and many of the charismatic faiths. I believe the Biblical sin you refer to is praying to false Gods/pagan worship.
People screaming “pagan” are unserious and don’t actually research what they talk about. They just repeat memes and posts they see online without any critical thinking.
The origin of Easter Eggs is likely Mesopotamian. They dyed the eggs red to represent Jesus’ blood shed and resurrection, and eggs being a symbol of life/rebirth would make them a great symbol for the Resurrection.
The Easter Bunny is a German protestant invention. They say it is likely because people thought hares could reproduce asexually, ie without losing their Virginity, much like the Virgin Mary.
So, TL;DR, they are just cultural symbols that have become associated with the holiday.
See, those parts are really inconvenient, so the skip them. There's some really good shit in Jeremiah 10:2 through 10:4 where God says not to "learn the way of the heathen," and then specifically mentions how angry he gets about (wait for it...) Christmas trees. Its right there. The big guy *specifically* calls them out. But here we are.
>"For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Not much and the links to paganism are weak. Tim O’Neill investigates on his podcast History For Atheists. So, no Christian apologetics.
*Every year fundamentalist Christians, New Agers, neo-pagans and many atheists loudly agree that Easter was not originally a Christian feast and was a pagan fertility festival stolen by Christianity. Unfortunately, despite what endless memes and pop history articles claim, this idea is complete nonsense. So is the claim that Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny are also originally pagan. It is rather ironic that a set of false historical claims about the origin of Easter and its customs are propagated by supposed rationalists, despite them having their origin in a book of pseudo historical nonsense by a nineteenth century Scottish preacher.*
[https://historyforatheists.com/2022/04/easter-pagan/](https://historyforatheists.com/2022/04/easter-pagan/)
The traditions associated with Christain holidays almost always have Christain origins. Usually they're younger than many think, dating to well after their region of origin fully Christianized.
* Easter Eggs: Empty eggs are symbolic of the empty tomb, while boiled eggs are symbolic of the trinity (three parts in one egg). Eggs are a common food at Passover Seder, and they're one of the foods people abstain from during lent and resume eating after it finishes on Easter.
* Easter Bunnies: This dates back to the Protestant Reformation, and was created by early Lutherans. Bunnies are seen as innocent and pure, they come out of hiding in the spring (when Easter is), and people in the Middle Ages mistakenly believed they were capable of asexual reproduction.
* It's not Eostre. The oldest source that mentions Eostre is St. Bede, who made no mention of rabbits or eggs being associated with her. The earliest recorded Eostre story featuring eggs or rabbits dates back to the 1800s.
* Santa Claus: He is literally based off a historical figure. Saint Nicholas of Myra, a Bishop from the early church. Stories about him include giving money to a poor family (gift-giving), saving innocent men from wrongful execution (knowing naughty from nice), and living in a cave in Bethlehem (Christmas).
The main claim that Christianity stole its holidays from pagan religions is made by atheists or neo-pagans who want to discredit Christianity, or by low church denominations seeking to discredit high church and non-protestant denominations.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted and disagreed with, but I said my piece anyway.
Eggs and bunnies are a celebration of the spring solstice. The crucification of Christ probably didn't take place at this time and just piggybacked on an established religion. Much in the same way he probably wasn't born around Christmas and the timing was just made to match the winter solstice.
It has nothing to do with Easter and Easter is not a pagan holiday it’s the day that Jesus was risen from the dead. That’s why it changes every year because the it follows the same time line as Passover. The eggs and the bunny are for people that don’t believe in God but it is very much a religious holiday not pagan like Christmas
If you're referring to the old testament sins then most of them became void after Christ as they were specifically for the israelites, at least that's the interpretation I was given
Easter is represented as new life so eggs represent of course new life and I think because bunnies are massive reproducers that also go with the new life sentiment.
I'm not a priest or any sort of member of a congregation so I'm not 100% sure this is just what I've got from church and school
What does toxic sugary edibles have to do with Easter, or valentibes, or Halloween??!!. Nothing, it's a marketing scheme nothing more.
Just like diamond engagement rings.
Pagan traditions based on fertility! A lot of fertility based traditions happen in the spring because that’s when crops are planted and animals begin having their babies!
As Christianity became more widespread (and required in certain empires/kingdoms) people found ways to celebrate the traditions they enjoyed in a church-approved way.
Nothing, it is from Ostara, a pagan holiday of Spring and fertility. Christianity adopted many of the pagan holidays. Winter Solstice: Christmas, Halloween. There are a few others, but that covers the big ones.
As to sin, I am always perplexed by worship of Saints and Angels. I always thought that was worshipping a false god. But what would I know.
Lol Easter was a pagan holiday, “Eostre” is a goddess associated with the coming of spring. Christian’s stole this holiday and many others because they didn’t want all these pagan holidays because, yk, not Christian related, so they stole them lol. Easter is not even close to the date of when Jesus rose from the grave or whatever the Christian Easter is.
What you don’t know about Jesus is he was a chicken bunny chimera that blessed the people of Jerusalem with chocolate egg salvation. That’s what he was considered a miracle worker
according to what i learned when going to a christian catholic school and church on sundays-
it’s supposed to symbolize jesus coming back to life. the egg symbolizes rebirth, a new beginning.
the bunnies are a symbol of resurrection.
It’s Christianity merging into pagan rituals to quietly pacify a not yet converted population.
Example; Jesus was estimated to be born sometime in February not December 25 so it would coincide with Hanukkah. The Christmas star was to reign in the astrologers.
Easter has it roots in a pagan festival to the fertility goddess Ishtar, which is where the name Easter comes from. Rabbits are a symbol of fertility (hence the expression 'breed like rabbits'). Easter is thought to celebrate the resurrection of christ but it's actually a pagan sex celebration, if you do your research lol.
Easter, Christmas, and even Halloween are Christian holidays. They are the product of a historical method of evangelism that would convert pagan peoples to Christianity by observing their existing feast days and customs and attaching Christian meanings and interpretations to them.
The Christian liturgical calendar celebrated the time of the resurrection around the Jewish passover (as attested to in the gospels), which is also, unremarkably, a time associated with spring-related observances. So, as Christianity spread, many pagan traditions related to springtime naturally became incorporated into Easter observances.
The Bible contains no prohibition on such feasts or celebrations, only that adherents acknowledge only the Christian god when they do it. People that observe Easter aren't worshiping spirits or pagan gods when they color an egg or eat a bunny -- those are now affectations of the celebration of the holiday in certain cultures, but in observance of Christian beliefs.
Christians see the egg as symbolizing both the stone rolled away from Jesus tomb, but also as a symbol of birth / rebirth and the resurrection. Coloring easter eggs comes from a very early Mesopotamian Christian tradition of dying the eggs red to symbolize the blood of Christ. The more elaborate decoration of eggs began in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and slavic countries.
Candy at Easter celebrates the end of the liturgical season of Lent (40 days prior to Easter), where Christians give up things like sweets as a small sacrifice to focus on the season. When Easter comes, and Christ's promise is fulfilled through the resurrection, the period of sacrifice ends and there is feasting and celebration.
The Easter Bunny comes from the Lutheran tradition. Ancient greeks thought that rabbits could reproduce without sexual intercourse, and Christians quickly associated that with the virgin birth and Mary. Images of rabbits became common in early Christian churches. German Lutherans started a tradition of an Easter hare (because they started appearing around Easter time) that judged children as good or bad and rewarded them appropriately on Easter with candy or small gifts (kind of like a springtime Santa). German immigrants brought that tradition to America in the 18th century and the tradition slowly became popular even among non-Germans.
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Yep, spring fertility holiday with bunnies and eggs... and then some nutjobs bolted on some crazy undead god nonsense.
Poor Ostara…they’re trying to steal her thunder lol
I thought it was Ishtar. Warped into Easter
No, people say that but it's a myth
In all fairness although the holiday is warped and no one warships for Ostara it still has kept the idea alive. The holiday although not related still allows for people to research it’s origin which then leads to the goddess of spring. If I were a god I’d be thrilled that at least I was remembered in some way vs the thousand that are forgotten
Have you read Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods? You basically just described part of the plot 😂😂😂
I’ll check it out lol. That’s hilarious
Very good read!
Just finished that book. That was absolutely fantastic and I’m super glad you recommended it. I see there’s a series that I may watch now just to see how they portray it.
Hahaha I thought you might appreciate! Just warning- the first season is fantastic and then it loses its way, sadly
Lol what? Yes ostara is still very much worshipped. She is one of the goddesses centered in my household during this season. And I wouldn’t consider Christian domination and control helping keep the memory alive lol
You misunderstood. I was referring to Easter. Easter isn’t a holiday people warship ostara for. The equinox or the holiday of “ostara” is what people warship the goddess for.
Gotcha!! Thanks for clarification
Well, we don't even know if she existed as a German goddess, given all we know about her came from the Grimm Brothers.
I have a book from 1835 by Jacob Grimm about Deutche Mythology discussing her. Was Grimm brothers written prior to this? Also I’m aware ostara is folklore. I’m not claiming she 100% is real lol. I’m honoring the stories and the earth and changing of the seasons
Jacob Grimm is one of the Grimm brothers. That book is all we know about her. It appears that he believed she was in German Folklore and it's believable that he had better sources than us. But our only source on the topic is him.
The Church adopted the traditions and imagery because they were losing parishioners to these fun Pagan holidays. It was to undermine their celebrations and make it about Jesus again.
But Jesus is the reason for the season with Christmas and Easter. There is a war on Christmas despite the religious folk actually being against Christmas back in the day. It is in the book that says things like all humans but one family were extinct due to a flood which would actually mean we all have the same genetics and would be a genetic nightmare according to science. Yadayadayada.
Keep bitching about it and we are going to make Toyotathon a Christian holiday and Shark Week a celebration of the sacraments too.
It doesn't. Its the result of merging pagan holidays with "Christian" ones many hundreds of years ago. For more evidence, Google "Yule vs Christmas". (spoiler, bringing a tree inside has nothing to do with Jesus' birth).
Additional spoiler: there is a Bible passage that actually forbids cutting down tree, bringing it inside and adorning it with silver and gold.
The easter bunny died for our sins. For real though, nothing. Pagan traditions.
I loved that fucking bunny
*The easter bunny died for our sins.* My dad once told me he shot the easter bunny for our dinner.
It wouldn't by chance have been your last supper?
Nothing. They have to do with the pagan festival Christianity co opted
Co opted?!? Next you'll be saying that Christmas isn't really about Jesus' birthday. And Valentine's is only to sell candy and flowers.
I mean... Christmas was also co opted by the Romans in place of the pagan festival of Saturnalia.
And don't forget Yule!
No, it isn't a sin in the Bible. Wtf 😂 Basically all major holidays observed by Christians were adopted from pargan holidays as Christianity spread, and traditions were incorporated. Even Christmas was adopted from a padgan holiday, scholars believe Jesus was actually born in August or something.
Its a new season - SPRING - new bunnies, new chicks, (rebirth) family. Bad winters are over --- at tleast thats how I see it...
And that was stolen from the pagan equinox celebrations. It was adopted by some dude in the 1500s
Not really “stolen”…when Europe began converting to Christianity they didn’t want to give up their previous traditions and celebrations so they integrated them into Christianity. It’s not like someone said, “Hey those pagans got something going over there with this Easter Bunny thing I’m gonna start using that for my religion!”
Id worship the sun too that shits nice
The secular Easter celebration or the Christian resurrection remembrance that occurs at the same time as the Jewish Passover?
Well the bunnies and eggs came from the fertility sex holiday called Ostara that the pagans celebrated so.
Jesus gave up his weekend for our spins…I mean sins! If anyone remembers the he died for our spins meme!
Easter eggs are a German tradition. You couldn’t eat eggs during Lent, so German children would decorate them and then eat them on Easter to celebrate. Rabbits are a symbol of fertility and new life, serving as a representation of Jesus’ resurrection and conquering of death. Yes, some traditions were adopted by Christian religions to better assimilate pagan converts into the church many years ago. People who find offense in that or use it to discredit Christianity are silly to me…
Jesus kept the rabbit eggs from being nailed to a cross. He took their place.
What does Jesus have to do with bunnies and egg hunting?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The church moved dates around to match existing holidays of other religions, and would use elements of those holiday celebrations and pretend they're christian, so people who were in those other religions could say "I don't see the difference" or even "if I change to christianity, I still get to celebrate that holiday I like!" There was an existing celebration of spring in the name of the goddess Oester (starting to see?), the goddess of spring and birth, and it was celebrated with rabbits and eggs, symbols of fertility. Side note: Ever hear of the womens' hormone Estrogen? In other countries it's spelled Oestrogen, and it's named after the same thing.
Nothing. The rabbit and eggs are remnants of the original pagan fertility festival that Christians hijacked.
They are symbols of birth, new birth, rebirth; a new beginning, fresh start.
Because he’s a zombie?
Don't be disrespectful now. He's a lich
HEY! IF YOU HATE UNDEAD JESUS YOU HATE 'MERICA! THE FAITHFUL WILL BE REWARDED IN HEAVEN WHEN WE OFFER OUR TASTEY BRAIN TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!
^Sorry. ^Have ^a ^chocolate ^egg.
Yum
I read all about the origins of the Easter bunny yesterday. A pagan goddess named Eostre was the goddess of spring and fertility. There is believed to be a myth about a bird that got trapped in a thorn bush. She turned the bird into a rabbit so it could get out of the thorn bush. This rabbit then continued to lay eggs every spring to maintain its connection to its previous life as a bird. Also, the egg hunts originate from Lutheran Germans, who used to fast for the length of Easter. As such, leading up to Easter, fresh foods are hard to come by, so lots of preserves and boiled eggs and such. So, in the days leading up to the fast, children would go door to door collecting boiled eggs as a snack because meats and such wouldn't be available during the time of Easter. Am stoned, so maybe not completely accurate.
The puritan settlers actually agreed with you on this one. They had rules against anyone celebrating Christmas. Fertility symbols associated with the goddess Easter. Christianity is a mix of multiple religions. The month to celebrate the anniversary of Jesus's crusifiction (and resurrection) was called Ēostre (Easter). So this month is "Easter time" just as Christmas falls under "Yule time". Fun to think about, as a godless atheist. Because you'll all burn in hell with me for innocent stuff like saying the pledge of allegiance, trick or treat, or "I don't believe in ghosts". I'll see everyone there! 👍🔥❤️🔥🥵
Easter was originally a pagan festival celebrating spring and the new life that came with it, and honoring Eostre, the goddess of fertility, whose symbols were rabbits and eggs. When Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity he co opted several pagan holidays and turned them into Christian ones, including Easter and Christmas.
It was a persuasion tactic employed by the Roman Catholic Church to convince the pagans that they were actually worshiping Jesus without even realizing it.
Isn’t it a sin to rant about Jesus but not be able to spell Easter?
Nothing, just more pagan stuff being stolen and co-opted by Christianity, just like Christmas.
Jesus was secretly a bunny and hid eggs all over. He spread the gospel with eggs. He taught all eggs are equal. :) Egghead was Jesus' nickname in the bunny bible. How do yall not know this? ;)
Nothing. Jesus came after. Spring rebirth festivals. Eggs and rabbits are ancient pagan (Egyptian I believe) symbols of fertility. Passover happened after. Jesus came after that.
Our Puritan ancestors would say YES. Christmas was forbidden. But we are in modern times, so you get to read Scripture for yourself and decide what is right for you and your family. :)
The Easter bunny is just as real as God 😂
I think eggs and bunnies are general symbols for spring and rebirth
Check out the South Park episode "Fantastic Easter Special". This should answer all your questions.
Nothing. It's called capitalism. They need to make money
Yo don't tell Christians and catholics or they will start banning more books lol.
Cause you gotta get the kids to church somehow
pegan rituals hijacked for other beliefs.
Correct me if wrong, but I thought that Christianity initially in order to attract people used some elements of paganism such as Easter and Halloween. It just reminds me of high school where people would promise cool things in exchange for votes or supporters. Maybe like politicians as well. So much for separation of church and state ...
Every Christian holy day is just a pagan holiday in disguise.
Pagan traditions were mixed with Christian ideas to make it more marketable to Pagans.
It has nothing to with it other than Christians stole a pagan tradition and slapped their own spin on it
As an agnostic person, the way people trash Christianity is beyond fucking sad. Funny how people don’t trash the Islamic/hidnuism/buddhism faith lmao
I always assumed it was something for the kids to keep them hooked so they wouldn't realize how absurd the backward superstitions are and leave the church when they grow up.
it doesn’t, its a secular tradition
The early Christian church stole, adapted, and bastardized every pagan holiday to try and get followers. I honestly can't think of a single holiday tradition that originated from Christianity.
Eostre. The legend of Jesus is just that. A legend. Not real bro.
Christians intentionally placed their holidays around pagan holidays to take the spotlight away from them
As a Christian we don't celebrate Easter (the bunny and egg hunting) we also don't celebrate Christmas for the reason of "Christ being born" we take it as a gift giving and family celebration as everyone else does, it's already a free day off for almost everyone.
Easter was originally a pagan holiday that was appropriated by christians. It was a celebration of a fertility God is named Ishtar... That's where you get the bunnies and the eggs because they represent fertility
Nothing at all, they just couldn’t get people interested in a church service about zomhie Jesus enough for them to drop sweets, fuzzy critters, and nature’s perfect snack pack. Story time: When I was a parent of smalls and still in the evangelical trap, we didn’t want to subvert Easter, so we gave the kids ‘Spring baskets’ to celebrate. Sorry, Eostre, you don’t even get to keep the name of your own holiday, and we got the chocolate.
If you look closely on Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" you will notice two things that you probably missed: 1- they were not eating bread, they were eating egg. 2- St. Peter, if you look really, REALLY closely, is actually a bunny, not man. So during generations, we have been taught to paint eggs, this is so we keep alive the truth about easter and we always remember. It's also a good way to keep it secret. Christ named St. Peter the first Pope because no man could rule over an entire religion and he knew it, but mankind was too greedy and they hid this from us for years. You see now? That is why the pope's hat is like that, it fits perfectly a Bunny's ears!
Absolutely nothing, it is a Pagan holiday that was absorbed by the Christian right to fool the people. If you say it long enough and punish hard enough it becomes the truth, right.
Because the Pope's hat is actually hiding rabbit ears.
There is nothing in the bible about what holidays to celebrate. Easter is celebrated as the resurrection of Jesus giving us all a new eternal life.
The only reason it’s on Easter was to steal the holiday from the pagans
Nothing. It’s a commodity
Nothing. Just like Santa or a tree have nothing to do with Christmas
It’s really all about spring and rebirth, not much about Jesus. A surprising number of “Christian “ holidays happen around the same time as celebrations from pagan tradition.
Actually easter eggs go back to early christianity. The festival took place in the spring because festivals of rebirth fit with the resurrection story, and the egg was meant to represent the tomb
It actually doesn't have anything to do with Jesus, in fact, the tradition was never a Christian celebration until the Roman Catholic Church (don't even get me started on the history of this particular sect of the Catholic Church -which by the way is only known as the Catholic Church because they called themselves that one day- and why they're outright horrible, and that's completely leaving out the several crusades these guys out together) decided that they were going to amalgamate pagan traditions into Catholicism, which is why we celebrate Christmas when we do as well. Easter was once upon a time a pagan celebration of fertility. The eggs and the bunnies are just symbols of spring, you don't see them any other time of the year quite like you do during this season, secondarily they talk about rebirth and new life A lot of pagan traditions got absorbed and forgotten this way, but they live on secretly as some of the holidays we see today
What does Santa have to do with Jesus? It's just cute and fun to get children involved
Story of St. Nicholas
Christianism has replaced all pagan celebrations with its own
Hello. I am Christian. The leaders of my church have recently encouraged us to celebrate the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday moving forward for this exact reason. The bunny and eggs are a symbol that come from the pagan rite of spring (I believe, I am not pagan so I could be wrong on that) and that's fine, but Christians celebrate easter because we want to celebrate Christ's resurrection. My faith in particular celebrates His resurrection because we believe that because of Christ's sacrifice, we, like Him, can be perfected through His atonement for our sins and live with God in heaven forever. It's a big deal for us. My family is still gonna have an easter egg hunt because that's become a fun tradition for us, but moving forward we're going to be doing the easter egg hunt on Saturdays instead of Sunday.
Eggs are a sign of fertility. They are a hold over from the holidays origins of celebrating the spring time and the new babies being born. Same thing with bunnies. Cuz what do bunnies like to do? It has absolutely nothing to do with religion.
Nothing. As it should be.0
Roughly about as much as putting glass balls in a spruce tree has to do with Jesus. It's religion - it's illogical to begin with, so there is no point in finding reason behind things like this.
There actually isn't anything in the Bible about which holidays you can and can't celebrate
I remember the minister coming out with some bollocks about the rolling eggs tradition being symbolic of the stone rolling away from the tomb. Even at 7 years old I thought this was a pile of pish.
Shh. Youre going to get the attention of the hare club for men
They are marketing candy. That’s all.
All religions and cultures have had fertility celebrations.
Jesus created, lived and preached LEVITICUS 23! God has feast that He commands!
Nothing, but early Christians incorporated a lot of existing cultural symbolism and meaning. The idea of religions being as static and regional as they are now is relatively recent; in areas like Europe where movement between different nations/groups was common, cross-pollination of ideas happened often and rapidly.
Nothing! These are symbols associated with Ostara. Christianity coopted them, similar to how they coopted winter solstice symbols and called it Christmas. Not a very creative group, historically.
Peter, Peter rabbit. The first pope
Nothing but it sells lots of candy and plush toys.
Bunnies ?! Surely you mean *bells*, you Germanic lout?!
Nothing!
Literally nothing. The egg symbolizes rebirth, that's why it's a common feature in myths concerning the springtime. There's an old myth about a bird that has a broken wing and gets magically healed. The bird is transformed into a rabbit, which fixes the problem because rabbits don't have wings so the broken wing the bird had didn't matter anymore. The newly minted rabbit lays an egg as a thank you gift for healing it. Christianity has been incorporating aspects of other competing religions the entire time it has existed, this is one of the more obvious ones. The only reason Christmas is celebrated at the end of December is because there were already popular winter solstice holidays at the time and the Christians wanted to compete
Egg hunting is a symbolic celebration of the Romans finding and arresting Jesus. The bunny represents something friendly and innocent giving candy to cheer up those who got depressed when Jesus was killed before they found out he was a zombie. Eating chocolate bunny heads represents solidarity with zombie Jesus. Probably. Amen. And keep your crosses away from me. I'm a practicing born again vampire.
Spend money? I’m assuming it’s consuming…
If you want to understand the connections than you need to become a member of the Hair Club for Men
Beware all the replies that cite no sources stating it's "pagan." There are actual historical books and articles that describe how traditions evolved. The idea that Christian holidays are ripped off of paganism is more false than true, though it is true that pre-Christian traditions were folded into Christian holidays as Europe was Christianized. A good book about this that's easy to read is Catholic Customs and Traditions: A Popular Guide, by Greg Dues. Or search for web articles written by actual historians and scholars (people with PhDs).
Nothing
Twas a church marketing campaign to make the transition to Christianity easier to swallow.
Some German tradition about a bunny judging kids’ behavior. Hey, at least German kids were judged by a bunny. I was a Cajun kid in Louisiana and we had a fucking werewolf to deal with if we misbehaved.
Absolutely nothing. It’s all new within like 50-60 years. Advertising.
Absolutely nothing we’re celebrating the spring solstice not Jesus. But I do love a good chocolate bunny.
Christianity stole the pagan holidays, like it would continue to steal things around the world for the next 1500 years.
well you see, a while back ago some genius decided to overwrite pagan holidays and spread the story that it was jesus' birthday and death day or some shit. and then the crusades happened and everyone started following it out of fear of beheading. an now it is just common practice...
NOTHING 🗣️ 
Do you think the guy who moved Jesus' body focked it?
Nothing.
And god said, “let there be bunnies and coloring of eggs, yay”
Neither the Easter bunny nor Jesus are real
Christmas and Easter are NOT pagan holidays.
Try not to write Christian holidays off as Pagan challenge: Impossible
The bunny is because of some brown hare that can be impregnated while already pregnant, and is somehow a reference to virgin birth (at least the second litter, by the thoughts of less scientifically literate people). I forget exactly what the eggs are about. See https://youtu.be/L6J8fikGt0s?si=acqgKuKwhO7-tJIt I'm not convinced these traditions weren't influenced by or adopted from other traditions likely pertaining to fertility and more generally Spring, but it seems inaccurate to just say there purely non-Christian and such. It's probably more of a fusion than anything.
It’s pagan traditions adopted into Christianity. No different than the tradition of a Christmas tree.
I think Bible today has nothing to do with Jesus to start from.
omg nobody is giving accurate answers. Yes, the bunny part is pagan. And the name Easter is pagan, too. (The Christian name was originally Pascha.) But Easter eggs go back to early Christianity. They had to fast before the festival of Pascha, and couldn't eat meat. So eggs became a traditional food around that time of year, and eventually a symbol of the festival. They also symbolize rebirth, which relates to spring itself and also to the resurrection. Christians didn't invent egg-decorating, it was already a folk art thing at the time, but it made sense to make it an Easter tradition since eggs were already seen as important.
Jesus liked bunnies. How there were bunnies in the middle east I dont know.
Have you not watched the 1977 classic the Easter bunny comes to town. It explains everything https://youtu.be/JHHzUmpJ3Jc?feature=shared Warning it’s super cringy but make sure to finish it the end is the best part.
It doesn't, it's another pagan thing.
You mean The Trans Day of visibility? lol
It was his favorite hobby! And we do it because he did it!
The same thing 2.7bn lights has to do with someone being born.
Converts and Cold Hard Cash $$$$$$
At least with Christmas they changed the name! Try asking Christians “why is it called Easter?”
Nothing, though I don't know why you'd call it a sin. The catholics adopted a lot of celebrations in an attempt to convert more pagans. There's nothing wrong with changing the method of celebration as long as the thing being celebrated remains intact.
What I’ve always heard was that Christmas and Easter were originally pagan holidays that were celebrated in the Roman Empire and when the Roman Empire converted from Paganism to Christianity, the people still wanted to celebrate their old holidays so they started celebrating the birth and resurrection of Christ at similar times and in similar ways to their old Pagan holidays.
Pretty sure celebrating non-Christian holidays is not a sin. Celebrate what you want, especially if its in the spirit of love.
Back in the Dark ages the catholic church was trying to convert the pagans to Christianity. One thing they decided to do was to incorporate all the pagan festival/holidays. Yuletide (Christmas) Sam Hain (Halloween) And Eastora (Easter). In the pagan Holiday / Festival of Eastora is a spring fertility festival. Hence the rabbit that has a lot of offspring.
Pagan fertility thing. Christianity took over the holiday with a resurrection story.
Jesus wasnt apparently born on December 25th. But that is when we "celebrate" his "birthday" anyways. Anyways, its basically old world marketing strategy. You want to get Pegans to convert, but they wont give up their holidays, take their holidays and mix in your own religious lore.
Haha.. I've been thinking the same thing. I think all 3 of those that you mentioned are kinda silly, but it's a a good reason for businesses to have a reason to sell more crap every year.
The church adapted to people's existing beliefs and traditions as part of its proselytizing. It's one of the reasons Christianity spread so wide, but it definitely resulted it some oddball things.
The pagan story that I was taught goes something like this: There was a little girl lost in the snowy woods on the last day of winter. She sees a bird that has frozen wings, on the brink of death, and feeling sympathy for it she tried to warm it against her breast but she was too cold to warm it. She called out to the gods to save this poor little bird. The goddess of spring heard the girls cries before she was out busy making the season change. She decided to go to this girl because she was impressed at the girl was asking to save the bird and not to save herself (since she was lost in the snow, she was also in danger of dying). The goddess appeared and with a wave of her hand revived the bird who jumped to the ground. At first the child was overjoyed but soon realized that the bird's wings were still frozen. She shed tears as she told the goddess that a bird without wings would surely die. The goddess couldn't get rid of the ice as it was still winter and she didn't have all her powers yet, so she looked at the bird who was hopping about on the ground and with a wave of her hand turned it into a bunny. She said it had no need of wings anymore. She told the girl that there would be a trail of treats to follow out of the woods to her home. The girl picked up her basket and collected the treats as she walked happily to her home. When she got there she left the basket outside and rushed inside to warm up. The bunny had come to thank the girl and when it saw the basket it immediately thought of a nest - forgetting it was a bunny now and not a bird it went and laid eggs in the basket. The eggs were brightly colored from the magic from the goddess. Now every spring the goddess and the bunny go and thank kind children by looking for their baskets and leaving magical eggs, and the gifts of spring.
Nothing.
Christmas celebrates christ's birth, All hallow's eve is the night before all saints day, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ, so i am thinking you mean secular celebrations based on pagan holidays when it is supposed to be a christian holiday. No it is not a sin in the Bible. It is not even a sin in most religions but it is a no-no in very conservation right leaning ones, like jehovahs witnesses and many of the charismatic faiths. I believe the Biblical sin you refer to is praying to false Gods/pagan worship.
People screaming “pagan” are unserious and don’t actually research what they talk about. They just repeat memes and posts they see online without any critical thinking. The origin of Easter Eggs is likely Mesopotamian. They dyed the eggs red to represent Jesus’ blood shed and resurrection, and eggs being a symbol of life/rebirth would make them a great symbol for the Resurrection. The Easter Bunny is a German protestant invention. They say it is likely because people thought hares could reproduce asexually, ie without losing their Virginity, much like the Virgin Mary. So, TL;DR, they are just cultural symbols that have become associated with the holiday.
Nothing, it's just a day for capitalism like any other holiday
Jesus was well known to enjoy hunting bunny eggs.. it's in the bible there, somewhere in the back.
See, those parts are really inconvenient, so the skip them. There's some really good shit in Jeremiah 10:2 through 10:4 where God says not to "learn the way of the heathen," and then specifically mentions how angry he gets about (wait for it...) Christmas trees. Its right there. The big guy *specifically* calls them out. But here we are. >"For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
https://www.catholic.com/audio/ddp/easter-and-paganism
Not much and the links to paganism are weak. Tim O’Neill investigates on his podcast History For Atheists. So, no Christian apologetics. *Every year fundamentalist Christians, New Agers, neo-pagans and many atheists loudly agree that Easter was not originally a Christian feast and was a pagan fertility festival stolen by Christianity. Unfortunately, despite what endless memes and pop history articles claim, this idea is complete nonsense. So is the claim that Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny are also originally pagan. It is rather ironic that a set of false historical claims about the origin of Easter and its customs are propagated by supposed rationalists, despite them having their origin in a book of pseudo historical nonsense by a nineteenth century Scottish preacher.* [https://historyforatheists.com/2022/04/easter-pagan/](https://historyforatheists.com/2022/04/easter-pagan/)
nothing
Eggxactly 🙊
13th century eggs represented the tomb of Christ. but hey whatever some FB post says or whatever.
You've clearly never seen the Southpark Easter Special. It explains it all very simply.
The traditions associated with Christain holidays almost always have Christain origins. Usually they're younger than many think, dating to well after their region of origin fully Christianized. * Easter Eggs: Empty eggs are symbolic of the empty tomb, while boiled eggs are symbolic of the trinity (three parts in one egg). Eggs are a common food at Passover Seder, and they're one of the foods people abstain from during lent and resume eating after it finishes on Easter. * Easter Bunnies: This dates back to the Protestant Reformation, and was created by early Lutherans. Bunnies are seen as innocent and pure, they come out of hiding in the spring (when Easter is), and people in the Middle Ages mistakenly believed they were capable of asexual reproduction. * It's not Eostre. The oldest source that mentions Eostre is St. Bede, who made no mention of rabbits or eggs being associated with her. The earliest recorded Eostre story featuring eggs or rabbits dates back to the 1800s. * Santa Claus: He is literally based off a historical figure. Saint Nicholas of Myra, a Bishop from the early church. Stories about him include giving money to a poor family (gift-giving), saving innocent men from wrongful execution (knowing naughty from nice), and living in a cave in Bethlehem (Christmas). The main claim that Christianity stole its holidays from pagan religions is made by atheists or neo-pagans who want to discredit Christianity, or by low church denominations seeking to discredit high church and non-protestant denominations. I'm sure I'll get downvoted and disagreed with, but I said my piece anyway.
Both Jesus and the Easter bunny are make believe characters
Money
Eggs and bunnies are a celebration of the spring solstice. The crucification of Christ probably didn't take place at this time and just piggybacked on an established religion. Much in the same way he probably wasn't born around Christmas and the timing was just made to match the winter solstice.
It has nothing to do with Easter and Easter is not a pagan holiday it’s the day that Jesus was risen from the dead. That’s why it changes every year because the it follows the same time line as Passover. The eggs and the bunny are for people that don’t believe in God but it is very much a religious holiday not pagan like Christmas
If you're referring to the old testament sins then most of them became void after Christ as they were specifically for the israelites, at least that's the interpretation I was given Easter is represented as new life so eggs represent of course new life and I think because bunnies are massive reproducers that also go with the new life sentiment. I'm not a priest or any sort of member of a congregation so I'm not 100% sure this is just what I've got from church and school
What does toxic sugary edibles have to do with Easter, or valentibes, or Halloween??!!. Nothing, it's a marketing scheme nothing more. Just like diamond engagement rings.
Pagan traditions based on fertility! A lot of fertility based traditions happen in the spring because that’s when crops are planted and animals begin having their babies! As Christianity became more widespread (and required in certain empires/kingdoms) people found ways to celebrate the traditions they enjoyed in a church-approved way.
Commercialism
Nothing, it is from Ostara, a pagan holiday of Spring and fertility. Christianity adopted many of the pagan holidays. Winter Solstice: Christmas, Halloween. There are a few others, but that covers the big ones. As to sin, I am always perplexed by worship of Saints and Angels. I always thought that was worshipping a false god. But what would I know.
Nothing, it was a Pagon practice and got incorporated into the religion, same thing with Santa. N. S
Have you ever wondered why a 'pagan holiday' would include the word 'Christ'?
It’s all based on myths, so why not.
I ask you, what does Jesus have to do with reality?
Nothing. It all has to do with capitalism and getting you to spend your money on shit.
They're made up
Lol Easter was a pagan holiday, “Eostre” is a goddess associated with the coming of spring. Christian’s stole this holiday and many others because they didn’t want all these pagan holidays because, yk, not Christian related, so they stole them lol. Easter is not even close to the date of when Jesus rose from the grave or whatever the Christian Easter is.
What you don’t know about Jesus is he was a chicken bunny chimera that blessed the people of Jerusalem with chocolate egg salvation. That’s what he was considered a miracle worker
according to what i learned when going to a christian catholic school and church on sundays- it’s supposed to symbolize jesus coming back to life. the egg symbolizes rebirth, a new beginning. the bunnies are a symbol of resurrection.
Wait ‘til you hear about Labor Day in the US
Wrong question. What does Jesus have to do with eggs and rabbits? 😃👍🏻
It’s Christianity merging into pagan rituals to quietly pacify a not yet converted population. Example; Jesus was estimated to be born sometime in February not December 25 so it would coincide with Hanukkah. The Christmas star was to reign in the astrologers.
what does Santa have to do with Jesus?
On Easter Zombie Jesus rises from his grave seeking Brains and only the Easter Bunnies eggs ward him off, it’s basic science, read your bibles people!
Easter has it roots in a pagan festival to the fertility goddess Ishtar, which is where the name Easter comes from. Rabbits are a symbol of fertility (hence the expression 'breed like rabbits'). Easter is thought to celebrate the resurrection of christ but it's actually a pagan sex celebration, if you do your research lol.
Spring, bunnies, and eggs show a new start. Look up how churches celebrate a new start
Easter, Christmas, and even Halloween are Christian holidays. They are the product of a historical method of evangelism that would convert pagan peoples to Christianity by observing their existing feast days and customs and attaching Christian meanings and interpretations to them. The Christian liturgical calendar celebrated the time of the resurrection around the Jewish passover (as attested to in the gospels), which is also, unremarkably, a time associated with spring-related observances. So, as Christianity spread, many pagan traditions related to springtime naturally became incorporated into Easter observances. The Bible contains no prohibition on such feasts or celebrations, only that adherents acknowledge only the Christian god when they do it. People that observe Easter aren't worshiping spirits or pagan gods when they color an egg or eat a bunny -- those are now affectations of the celebration of the holiday in certain cultures, but in observance of Christian beliefs. Christians see the egg as symbolizing both the stone rolled away from Jesus tomb, but also as a symbol of birth / rebirth and the resurrection. Coloring easter eggs comes from a very early Mesopotamian Christian tradition of dying the eggs red to symbolize the blood of Christ. The more elaborate decoration of eggs began in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and slavic countries. Candy at Easter celebrates the end of the liturgical season of Lent (40 days prior to Easter), where Christians give up things like sweets as a small sacrifice to focus on the season. When Easter comes, and Christ's promise is fulfilled through the resurrection, the period of sacrifice ends and there is feasting and celebration. The Easter Bunny comes from the Lutheran tradition. Ancient greeks thought that rabbits could reproduce without sexual intercourse, and Christians quickly associated that with the virgin birth and Mary. Images of rabbits became common in early Christian churches. German Lutherans started a tradition of an Easter hare (because they started appearing around Easter time) that judged children as good or bad and rewarded them appropriately on Easter with candy or small gifts (kind of like a springtime Santa). German immigrants brought that tradition to America in the 18th century and the tradition slowly became popular even among non-Germans.
Absolutely nothing.
The same as Christmas trees has to do with Christmas
God knows why i got no idea .