What in the blue hell does a rabbit and dying eggs have to do with easter?

haven't you ever seen south park? saint peter was actually a rabbit and not a human

Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre

Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!

The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!

Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

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Everything, Easter is the Spring Solstice and is name after Eastre pronounced Easter.

You mean what does it have to do with the resurrection.

The date of Easter is determined by the phases of the moon and will fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring Equinox. It represents fertility and the renewal of life.

Easter originated from the festival in honor of Eostre, a Teutonic-Germanic dawn, spring, and fertility goddess.. She was known as “Astarte,” the ancient Phoenician great goddess of fertility. Her Anglo-Saxon name became “Estre” or “Eastre.”

Her symbol the Egg:

The egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter from the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians. The idea of the mystic egg spread from Babylon to many parts of the world. The egg symbolizes “birth” and “renewal.”

Her Symbol The Bunny:

The hare is symbolically associated with the moon. It came to be associated with the idea of periodicity. Easter, Eostre, or Ishtar was a goddess of fertility. The bunny is a creature that procreates quickly, it symbolizes the sexual act.

Why she wants you to eat ham:

The most famous of the myths of Ishtar tells of her descent into the realm of the dead to rescue her son, Tammuz. When Tammuz died in the summer and all vegetation died with him, Ishtar went looking for him all over the world. She finally found him in the underworld and brought him back to life. Tammuz was reborn and the vegetation could once again flourish. According to the myth, Tammuz was tragically slain by a wild boar. Ishtar “Eastre” proclaimed that because a pig killed Tammuz, a pig must be eaten on that Sunday. On this day, ham is eaten in mockery in place of the Sacrificial Lamb.

The Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are SECULAR customs attached to a RELIGIOUS holiday.

It is a cover up by the catholic church. It was formerly a pagan holiday that the church didn't want making them look bad so they put easter on the same day and made it look more important.

By the way princess, the pagan holiday came first.

Nothing. Christianity loves copying things from pagan religion, and rabbits (as in multiplying like rabbits) and eggs are pagan symbols of fertility that naturally go with the spring and new life.

"Easter" comes from the name of the goddess Eostre. She is a goddess of spring, renewal, and fertility, and Her celebrations fell on or around the vernal equinox (about March 21.)

The rabbits and eggs also come from Eostre's festivals--rabbits were sacred to her, and the story is that one little bunny, toward the end of winter, found a fresh egg in the woods. But instead of eating it himself, he decorated it as prettily as possible to gift to his beloved goddess. She was so pleased with his sacrifice--because he really wanted to eat that egg!) that she made him her messenger, and had him and all his kind deliver eggs to mortal children as a reminder of spring.

When the Christians were converting pagan tribes, one of the things they did was to usurp pagan festival days for their own purposes. Yule became Christmas, Imbolc became Candlemass--and Eostre's festival of rebirth and renewal became a celebration of a carpenter's resurrection. Many of the essential elements of the holy days remained unchanged, but the emphasis was changed slightly to reflect the Christian mythos.

Ah, Ostara. A pagan festival celebrating sex and fertility--and it's been adopted by one of the most anti-sexual religions ever.

The irony is as delicious as the chocolate bunnies.

Pagan fertility festival > Christianity > Commercialization > Chocolate bunnies and sometimes Jesus

Because rabbits and eggs symbolize fertility. It's a pagan thing.