I agree and that is why I do not mention that rodent at all.  We still hide the plastic eggs with candies but make no pretense as to their origin.  Like you, I do not want my children to associate the faith with myths lest both be dismissed in the same way. It is all up to us for we are the first catechists.

We’ve never done anything involving the Easter Bunny.  Our baskets of goodies include candy, but also include something additional, like a rosary or some other gift helping to tie it in to our faith.

Homeschooling helps.  We don’t have to deal with the projects that would be coming up at school, and can instead have our kids color pictures of the Stations of the Cross, the empty tomb, and do other crafts focused on Lent/Easter and not a hopping, generous ball of fluff that leaves candy for some inexplicable reason.

I often struggle with the Easter Bunny and the fat red guy.  St. Nicholas is not exactly the same thing, but Santa should be right out.  It’s again “the slippery slope” right?  If the Easter Bunny is fake, and Santa is a fake, then is Christ’s presence in the Eucharist another nicety Pops made up? 
Nope, do away with the pagan practices and celebrate the Truth, Christ is born, Christ is Risen, Christ will come again:)

...and of course, my hubby does not agree with me, being an avid Santa fan:)  Its so democratic in our family!

You’re kidding me right?

Most INTELLIGENT Catholic Folks can discern the difference between the Easter Bunny (rabbits are NOT rodents) and the Resurrection- the CORNERstone of the faith.

That’s like comparing the Da Vinci Code to the bible.

You ARE kidding, right?

We celebrate St. Nicholas’ feast day.  Have the kids put shoes in front of the fireplace.  None of the gifts given are labeled “From Santa”, but that’s not true when we go to my parents’ house.

Of course, it helps that the kids know Santa is St. Nicholas, and they’ve got a great video about the real St. Nicholas and know him as a Bishop and Saint and not a fat guy in a red suit who doles out presents (from CCC…good videos, the kids love them.  I highly recommend.).  Sigh…how did St. Nicholas go from being a kind and loving Bishop who gave generously to those in need to a guy with no motivation who just gives gifts to everyone?  I blame Coca Cola.

http://proecclesia.blogspot.com/2010/03/happy-feast-day-of-st-patrick-17-march.html

”... Personally, one of the biggest problems I have with the secular celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day is the ubiquitous presence of the leprechaun. On and around St. Patrick’s Day, this little fairy creature can be seen on the front pages of major newspapers, on greeting cards, and on televisions selling used cars, credit cards, and beer in a cheesy Irish brogue accent.

The Irish - that mystical race of warriors and poets, saints and scholars, who brought us great works of literature like Ulysses and Gulliver’s Travels, early medieval illuminated manuscripts like the Books of Kells and Durrow, musicians like Turlough O’Carolan, Altan, U2 and Van Morrison, wordsmiths like W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, kings like Brian Boru and ... (well, Brian’s about it as far as great Irish kings go), political heroes like Daniel O’Connell and Michael Collins, and saints like Columcille (a.k.a. Columba), Brendan, Aidan, and Columbanus - deserve better on the feast day of their patron saint than to be represented by a short, ruddy (and might I add, pagan) fairy dressed in a green suit…”

This is the reason why I told my children early on the truth about “Santa Claus”.  After telling “innocent lies” about Santa, the Tooth Fairy, et al,  how do we convince children that we are *really* serious about Jesus?

Now, you may think I was way too serious as a child, but I remember feeling pretty confused, angry and betrayed when I found out that Santa wasn’t real (at least the “down the chimney” Santa).  I actually thought, “why would they lie to me about that?”  I’m sorry, but it’s not “cute.”

When I was a kid, most of us believed in Santa until we were as old as 12 (6th grade).  I remember a disc jockey playing a joke, saying that Santa had crashed and broke his back - he might not be able to get around this Christmas.  Kids in my class were all upset -  and that was 5th grade.

Fiction is fine - as long as we make sure *everyone knows* it’s fiction.  Its the same reason I despise movies like “JFK” or any historical movies that twist, distort or just plain make up history.  Filling in the gaps is one thing.  Changing the known facts is another.  No one has a right to re-write history and fill it with fiction.

Okay - I’m glad I got that off my chest now.  ;-)

Pat, I love this post!

The Easter bunny was never an issue in our home.  Without thinking it through as thoroughly as you did, we knew Saint Nick was real and the bunny was fake. Why bring him into our celebrations?  Our children continue to believe in Santa into their early tweens, and now I know why.  We never tried to sell them on that faker, the bunny.

Hello,everyone :) I’m coming to this article because it was just posted on a very large Pagan news site (Wren’s Nest- which is a part of The Witches Voice [www.witchvox.com])  Why am I being directed here from a Pagan news site?  Because some the modern images of Easter (the rabbit and eggs)drew heavily from a Pagan Goddess- Ostara, a German goddess of the dawn.  Don’t worry though.  From what I’ve looked up, the chocolate part of the occasion can be justified from handing out hot cross buns on Good Friday.  Trust me, as long as the sweets keep coming, a brief explanation of why your family doesn’t go with the Easter bunny images will work for most kids.

We were never raised with the idea of an Easter bunny, and we never missed it. In fact, it always bothered me greatly that the holiest day of the year was reduced to a rabbit leaving candy in the yard. My husband and I are raising our kids the same way—they still get Easter baskets (filled with candy AND something Catholic), Easter egg hunts, etc… and have never felt left out.

The eggs had nothing to do with paganism and everything to do with Lenten practices of the medieval age. In medieval ages, eggs and milk were given up in addition to meat for the entire 40 days. The eggs at Easter were to celebrate their return!

I wrote a short children’s story on this very thing called “The Legend of the Easter Bunny”.  It was published in the March/April 2007 issue of Faith and Family Magazine.  Hopefully one day it will be a real book.  It was my own way to “take back” the secularization of the Easter Holiday.

Although an orthodox Catholic, I admit to having actually “stamped” bunny prints in my wood floors (with talcum powder). Sorry, I’m a sucker for anything whose gullibility makes me marvel at my kid’s innocence.  Long live the bunny! (And tooth fairy and the jolliest one of all - Santa!).

The YMCA here in Vernon Hills, Illinois (yes, the y-m-C-a) has an event called “Breakfast With the Bunny.” They didn’t even call him the “Easter” bunny. Perhaps it is best that way.

Historically the word ‘Easter’ itself comes from the ancient Teutonic Goddess of spring and rebirth, Eostre as well as a link to “eastre”, an ancient word for spring.  Eostre’s sacred animal was the rabbit representing fertility.

The Easter bunny links rabbits with eggs. The legend that ties the Easter bunny to eggs involves the Goddess Eostre saving an injured baby bird from a rather harsh winter by turning it in to a rabbit. The creature retained the ability to lay eggs and would decorate the eggs it laid and leave them as a gift for the goddess who saved its life, thereby coming to the Easter egg that we all love to give out in her honor today.

The Easter Bunny occupies a perfectly valid position. If you folks can crusade (pardon the term) to “keep Christ in Christmas”, then surely the Little Furry One can be called on to keep Ostara in Easter. Like it or not, some prefer the Bunny over the Bishop, especially when bishops have such a long history of punching “heretics” and anyone else who happens to rock their boat. After all, it wasn’t the Easter Bunny who used Galileo for a punching bag and then took nearly four hundred years to say “oops”.

Santa vs. Christmas:
http://santa-truth.blogspot.com/2008/12/santa-derangement-syndrome.html

It is interesting how the Resurrection of Christ is called Easter in English.  However, in Spanish, Easter is “pascua,” from the Hebrew word “Pesach” meaning passover.  I wonder how that happened. Hmm…

You’ve lost your mind.

There is no deep reason why one cannot affirm both a robust version of Catholicism and discuss Easter Bunnies and Santa Claus.  As St Nick is self-explanatory, the case for the bunny is simple: explain to your children that he works for Jesus.  If C.S. Lewis’ stories can have a Christ-figure who is a lion, and talking animals, there is no inherent incompatibility here.  The bunny works for Jesus, and helps us to celebrate Easter. Is there a bunny?  Of course: I, the parent, am the bunny, and I am by all means working for Jesus in helping my children to celebrate and understand Easter.

Having a farming background, where we raised chickens, I know that for awhile in late winter/early spring the chickens stop laying eggs for about a month.  We never provided artificial heat, light or hormones to our chickens, so they followed more natural cycles.  Long about mid-Lent to Easter the chickens begin laying a few here and there, and soon the pullets begin dropping a few small pullet eggs which are sometimes minus the yolk. 

My thoughts are that this time of year wasn’t so much about deliberately “giving up” eggs and such food for Lent as it was following the natural course of Nature, (which of course God did create.) 

If you make a general study of all the world’s recorded religions you find a shred of truth in all of them, but not the whole of the truth as is in Catholicism.  I liken these religion’s calls to the realization voiced by the Church that God has been calling all of mankind since the fall of the first parents. 

Yes, christian teachers used all kinds of symbolism from other religions and they used them as proof of God’s call and mercy.

Hmmm ... my husband DID kill the Easter bunny! 

A couple years ago on Easter morning, my husband shot two jackrabbits sitting in our back yard.  Our 2yr & 4yr old girls, with wide eyes, related to me how, “Daddy just killed the Easter Bunnies!” Fortunately, they delivered the chocolate first :)

I understand that the Orthodox Christians, still fast from meat and all dairy products during Lent.  So that would also explain the enjoyment of eggs at on Easter.

I agree, I think the Easter bunny has nothing to do with Jesus.  It’s an excuse for stores to capitalize on a holiday.  At least Santa was a saint and is somewhat religious.  The bunny is there to secularize Easter.

Cute article. If your really serious about educating your children to think logically, let’s destroy the myths about the priesthood, religious orders, Catholic charity organizations and the socialist left leaning wing of the Catholic bishops and Vatican one world economy. God bless America.

Excuse me, but you forgot The Great Pumpkin.  Even though pumpkins are real, I have yet to hear of a story of a child believing THAT one (even after reading Peanuts).

Though you are against “Santa” at least the man has reindeer.  Of course reindeer are very real though quite big as adults.  I understand because of all the deer hunting Caribous (a cousin of the beloved reindeer) can now be used if necessary.

Every year, I see the REAL Easter Bunny hopping around the neighborhood.  He’s chocolate brown, has long ears and a white cottontail.  Very cute but of course he’s wild so no petting.  He (though sometimes the REAL Easter Bunny is a she) leaves little brown “eggs” if you know what I mean all over the place.

Seriously, I was told in Catholic school by the sisters back in the day the reason bunnies are the emblem of Easter was there was one outside of Jesus’ tomb that morning and that was the first thing Jesus saw after he left the tomb.  I don’t know how true that is but everyone knows you don’t contradict a Roman Catholic nun with a metal edged ruler!

As a young 61, I look back upon Easter and Christmas, I never believed in Santa as there were too many “Santa’s helpers” who all had different beards and suits.
Living in a rural area, I was able to see the bunnies.  Yep, they were mostly the same, so I DID believe in the Easter Bunny.  Not to the extent that they brought the candy.
But, they taught me a respect for new life as the Spring would follow shortly with the newly hatched bird eggs.
So, we have oneness in appearance, new life, gee that sounds a lot like Baptism to me where we are delivered from original sin to to new life as Christians.
And I’m Irish, but I don’t regard a leprechaun as a symbol of my heritage, but the lowly Shamrock.

THE CHURCH AND GOD ARE AGAINST LITERALISM. 

Cool it….Bunnies and Santa bring people to God because they make them think about the real meaning. It is a window and maybe a door. 

LOOK UP THE MEANING OF LITERALISM.

The problem is in our society, it takes bunnies and Santa to make the people forget the real meaning of Christmas and Easter. Jeanne, Excuse me, How Bunnies and Santa bring people to God? How can they make us think about the real meaning of Christmas and Easter?

Trivial waste of energy.  People are dying and suffering without healthcare and why am I responding to this?

I guess sometimes people forget they were kids and somehow they grew up and fought through all the mind-bending trauma of learning that Santa and the Easter Bunny are myths.

As a kid I was told about the Easter Bunny and Santa. And Jesus. Later I learned that the Easter Bunny and Santa were’t real, but I was never told that Jesus was not real. At the tender age of 7 I had already been exposed to Mother Goose, Cinderella, etc. And Samson, David and Goliath, and Jonah and the Whale. When I learned about the Easter Bunny, I quickly connected the dots to Santa. But I never connected through to “Well, I guess Jesus and God aren’t real either.” The reason for that is simply this: Santa and the Easter Bunny are singular events tied to a particular day of the year. They come and go. There is no weekly church service for the Easter Bunny.  In my parochial school we had an hour of religion every school day. With homework. There was no hour of Easter Bunny every day, and there was no homework. Even little kids understand the air of seriousness and reverence surrounding one and not the other.

So comments about how can we expect our kids to believe in Jesus when we’ve been lying to them about Santa just don’t hold water for me, based on my experience and the experience of everyone that I know. Seven year old kids can distinguish between fairy tales and the Bible. They take their daily cues from their parents, even subtle non-verbal cues. Jesus and the Easter Bunny simply have a different feel to them.

Frankly, I think some early training in differentiating between what is and what is not real is healthy for kids. It prepares them to be able to analyze things like abortion myths against the light of truth.

When I first moved from Mexico after I got married I was so shocked to find out that for many Catholics and Christians in Christmas there was a big influence by “Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman” and Easter we have the “Easter Bunny”, with the whole rabbit eggs. Same in there is the “toot fairy”.
I have never like it and I do not encourage it. It is so commercialized. I think that this is important because that is why there are so many cafeteria catholics and many pro-choice catholics. We have to take our faith seriously

At least most mature pagans understand that deities are human created symbolic tools, and not some delusional entity with anthropomorphic traits better left for comic con’s.  Sadly, there’s such strong indoctrination in this society in religious symbolism as if concrete reality that pagan converts or “reclaimers” often drag in needs for serious mental health work.  Given the history of felony housing discrimination convictions for entire Archdiocese perpetrators choosing to play landlords, not to mention justice tampering convictions peripheral to youth sex ed unauthorized program civil suits, a youth ed curriculum a little more grounded in boundary awareness and reality based identities could be a good shift.  As one female friend and Pax Christi leader not so willing to dismiss sick dogma in total frames her view of abusive Vatican doctrines, “that’s not what being a Catholic is about.”  In such an institutional power, military, and money driven system, what is a healthy base then, or one compatible with diverse society where there is no valid basis for supremacist monoculture social standards or personal social function practices?  Perhaps it would be healthy for kids to be told that fantasy characters are no more than that, but can have important roles in human enjoyment of life?  Hail chocolate, for it is sweet, but when hare is here, it’s hairy.

You people should mind the pedophiles in your ranks before speaking about anybody else’s “myths”. Your religion is as make-believe as any other - and just as legitimate. Mind the beam in your own eye before the splinter in your neighbor’s.

Sorry Al. Your post is an “of-topic”. The Church recognize her son’s sins, ask forgivnees and try to improve. We are not speaking about other religions here, just we are arguing about catholic’s behaviour regarding Easter bunny and Santa. Thanks and I’ll keep you on my prayers

Ronald, I don’t think trivial waste of energy this topic. How do you live Easter? Easter means a bunny or means the resurrection of the Lord?. All the other topics that you mentioned are very important as well, maybe you can propose them to a blogger.

Way too funny. I don’t think I ever really believed in the bunny myth. The bunny was never played up that much. Yes my parents would hide a basket for me to find but they never really said that the bunny left it.

Hmmmm well if we are to just ignore the actual origins of these “mascots” I would say it’s because the major figures for these Christian holidays are boring or depressing.  You are really going to compare the adorable Cupid to a beheaded priest?  “Here you are darling, here’s a bouquet of roses and a chocolate martyr.  Look how realistic the strawberry gore is!”  Similarly, fluffy animals go over better with the general populace than executed political prisoners.  If you are going to promote this religious celebration in Hallmarks and drug stores then please use the bunny and not the executed people.  If you are going to steal this holiday from Eostre then at least don’t bombard us with dead people.

Charlie,
If they started giving out chocolate decapitated martyrs with strawberry gore, I would be a lot more excited about Valentine’s day!

If this is the item of most relevance to you in this day and time, you must have a very boring life.  Right now, the largest caricature that the Roman Church has unfortunately a real person, with a real name—-Pope Benedict XVI.  Get a life!!!!!!

The question is the answer: “To make them palatable to the secularists”

Well….... I think there is some people that don´t have nothing to do and come here to say stupid things.

John, Get you a life!!! are you catholic??? what the hell are you doing here? if it is not relevent to you what the hell are you posting here? get out ang do your “relevant” things?

I like the Easter bunny it is a fitting symbol of spring fertility. Nothing wrong with it at all. Bunnies after all are real so why shouldn’t children believe that bunnies are real? Leave some magic in the holidays. I see nothing wrong with letting children believe in a little magic in a world that is often too dark and gray. Who is to say that the Easter bunny doesn’t exist?

Yes, indeed; having such an absurd imaginary mascot sets a bad precedent. Start disbelieving in the Easter Bunny and Santa, and who knows what other imaginary beings might go out the window as well? Maybe that bearded guy-in-the-sky Jehovah might be next. Can’t have that…

Boy, this was sure entertaining.  Everything from shootings of jack rabbits, chocolate martyrs, some random guy attacking our Pope, and a bit of serious Christian opinions.  Thanks for all the fun—but no thanks for keeping me up too late to read all of this silliness.

And then…. there was the years when the first grandchild, Charlie Pat was old enough to accompany Grampa out to feed Grampa’s rabbits,  which all of us adults knew were “table rabbits”,  not pets.

Along came an Easter when Charlie Pat was told to go search for his Easter basket.  He hunted high and low and Grampa coached him a little.  And to his great amazement he found his Easter basket out on the rabbit hutches, and Grampa told him “...black jelly beans grow from rabbit doo…” 

To this day nearly 40 years later,  Charlie Pat is perfectly willing to leave the black jelly beans for everybody else to eat.

Santa is based on the old Norse god, Odin.  The Easter bunny and the name “Easter” itself comes from the Pagan Goddess of Germanic mythology, Eostre, who’s symbols were eggs and rabbits.

Jesus is a son god, just like Dionysus, Mithras and all the other gods who share (or told the story first) the same exact story as Jesus.

oh my….we as a catholic family do not use secular images to enhance our holy days we use symbals from our faith to decorate our home.As for the bunny,baby with a bow,little spirits and the big one santa clause has no place in our celebrating the holy days in our faith :)

Thanks for your comment, Mrs. Joann.

It’s erroneous to view cultural icons as results of secularism, when those icons in fact developed in historic times and places when that was largely a non-issue.  It’s a modern fraud to attempt the “reindeer and two snowflakes” dilution of what started as reflections of religious holidays (as in holy days) in order to pander artifacts of religion via government speech.  Often that modern issue is confused by the morphing of history from multiple eras and places to cause icons to become composites of different times and places, such as German, British, and various Sun god roots of Santa variants, or for that matter equivalent and even more complex historic and cultural anthropology underpinnings of Jesus parables or implied and assumed meanings.  *** Lest we forget, many saints and related Catholic practices were part of historic strategies that today are defined as the “crime of genocide” under UN backed international law, whether violent forms via Crusades, or currently controversial cultural genocide with its blurry lines as to what may be educational charity, religious rights, or tampering to oppress or eliminate tribal, religious, or traditional culture of some other region or people.  From the 3rd through 12th centuries, and to a lesser extent thereafter, it was Vatican strategy to enter regions offering education to pagans, then send in dogma salesmen, and later armies to kill off those who’d declined to convert.  In that process, it was Papal policy to adopt a number of local holidays and icons from regional target cultures or pagan religions, and tweak them slightly with Catholic rebranding, to make it easier to sell Catholicism to locals.  That’s part of the history from which many modern evangelicals argue that Catholicism is pagan based and not Christian, not entirely an honest claim from them as a half truth.  Among those religious marketing frauds is the placement of “Christ-mass” in December, a time when several forms of pagans and Jews already had holy-days, while pretending to be celebrating a date in Spring sheep birthing season “when shepherds watch their flocks by night” (for predators or birthing problems).  What would that mythos and parable turn out to be, if based on accurate history of world cultures and religions?  How little of the Jesus story would accurately be real history of a Jewish philosopher king street bum, as opposed to pieces borrowed from other religions or cultures before or after over centuries?

Who can object to cupid?  The god of love in the shape of a e year old?  In the Metropolitan Museum in New York, there is a room from a Venetian palace where the cupids, in the form of laughing toddlers rise up from the four corners of the room, to pour down over the nuptial bed.  Love = babies, and none so clear a celebration of fertility and procreation than those jolly toddlers!  So be all for cupid!  He is definetely pro-life!

Oh….what a wonderful discussion we have:)some more intense then others…we must believe as a people brothers and sisters that the lord has forgiven us…for all the “crimes” we have transgressed against others.for our fathers and leaders of the church have made mistakes of cource…we must except and forgive..move on and heal the church from within not with money and declaration but with concentrated prayer and the spirit of grace and hope for a future that will heal the world and move us towards gods love ..as for icons sure they are cute…who can say a toddler isn’t adorable..but lets remember the saints and their sacafices to help us as a people move towards peace and love in our earthly world…

Sorry, didn’t realize that this was a page from the National Catholic Register.

But really, you all, enjoy the fun of Oestra Eggs from the Bountiful Bunny. It is all about Spring and rebirth, which was secondarily transformed into Christ’s resurrection.

Which did not happen, but makes for a good story nevertheless.

The Sun God died, in mid to late December, and returns in Mid March.

short and sweet…sin is fun…resist the devils work…golrify GODS works:)

“Nope, do away with the pagan practices and celebrate the Truth, Christ is born, Christ is Risen, Christ will come again:)”

Does that mean that all the Christians would celebrate Jesus’ birth at the right time of the year and let us pagans celebrate Yule without Christmas hanging in the background? I say it is about time that you all took the pagan out of your celebrations! Especially if they irritate you so much. Besides, most Christians don’t understand the meaning of the symbols and such that happen during those holidays anyway. They say that Christians took the days and ways from the pagans in order to get the pagans to celebrate Christian holidays but it IS more like the Christians are celebrating pagan holidays. LOL

Yes please. Take your Jesus out of our Yule. Celebrate Jesus’ birth in the Spring. And please stop asking us to put Jesus into something that he shouldn’t have been in in the first place. Talk about theft and rudeness.

The Easter Bunny gives me a great chance to share the true message with my childrens friends. I think the Easter Bunny is great!

I surprised myself after reading each and every comment (59) posted what it is that I have taken away from this forum; a new found respect for God’s little creature, what an enlightened symbol, one I will remind shoppers, family and friends.  “The Bountiful Easter Bunny is Pro-life”.

“A good mascot for Christopher Hitchens’ Day perhaps, but not for St. Patrick’s Day.”

I nearly spit out my coffee…

To me the Easter bunny is rather innocuous and silly. Santa Claus is SO overdone that I wish he’d have a complete sleigh breakdown until at least the first of December. The one that really troubles me most is the whole thing around Halloween. We can’t allow religious symbols for our religious holidays, but witches and ghosts are fine for a pagan holiday.

This American of German ancestry wants to know just WHEN DID THE RABBIT TURN WHITE???  For goodness sakes, rabbits are brown, and the Osterhasen just hides the stuff, the bunny does not “bring it,” funny American twists to “real” customs. : D   All said light heartedly.

No, I grew-up with “lambs, butterflies and eggs” being the Easter “symbols” used to explain profound truths to small children about The Resurrection of our Lord.  Bunnies were a later (and I think Protestant innovation, like “Santa Claus/Weihnachtsmann” is at Christmas time.

Hey Pat, you’re going to love this one. In my family when I was young, the only bunny that was around at Easter time was the one in our plate. I kid you not. The traditionnal meal for Easter was always a cooked rabbit. It was delicious and now that I am preparing for Easter, I am wondering if I should not shop for a rabbit at the butcher and get my mom’s receipe. Love your blog. Long live the dead bunny tradition! :)

Since Easter is not Christian but is of pagan origin, what difference does it make?  The Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are symbols of pagan fertility rites and immoral sexual orgies and have nothing in common with the death of Jesus Christ and His resurrection.  Anybody can check this out through a reputable encylopedia, such as Encylopedia Britannica - don’t just take my word for it, if you have the courage or honesty.

Of course, many suggest that the whole idea of the “rebirth” or resurrection of Jesus, came from the fact that his death happened to be associated with the pagaan spring celebrations. When the world of plants that dies over the winter, come to life again in the spring. (Cf. Persephone).

In that way, perhaps part of the core of Christianity - the paschal mystery; rebirth - was really from pagan origins. When peasants, who had been starving all winter, at last had a few green shoots to eat; maybe a few eggs to collect from the many birds laying them in the spring; maybe a rabbit emerging from semi-hibernation; or a new spring lamb.

Or in other words, it was all a plot, from the evil bunny.

There is no connection between the Passover and the pagan Easter and the method of caculation of the days for their observation are totally different - the Passover on solar and lunar cycles and Easter on the lunar cycle only.  Christ celebrated the Passover but introduced new symbols in it - He being the new Passover lamb and the broken bread symbolized His broken body, the wine symbolized His shed blood.  Christ and His disciples, later apostles, kept only the Holy Days outlined in the OT - He didn’t introduce any new ones.

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FINALLY!!!! I’ve been hating that %#@* @&%*?”+_^ Easter Ribbit/Bunny for years and you finally cleared the air on the hatred on that Pagan rabbit who is ruining the Holiest of Catholic Holy Days! Santa Claus or St. Nicholas was a real flesh and blood person as well as St Valentine and St. Patrick. But that Easter Rabbit/Bunny is nothing but a Paganistic Diety that is the “sidekick” of the Pagan Goddess of Spring Estera/Eostre. In my upbringing as a child I never had a stuffed toy bunny/Rabbit given to me for Easter as a gift And I learned a severly harsh lesson in reality as a young adult about the holiday (and nobody telling me that I’ve have outgrown to celebrate it). Nowadays Easter is now way too commercialized with that symbol of Paganism (the Easter Rabbit/Bunny) plastered all over stores and the media and people(including adults) wearing those embarrasing “Easter Rabbit/Bunny ears”
in public! That is the reason I love Christmas more than Easter and I hope That Dispicable horrible Easter Rabbit/Bunny should die!

Pat- I agree COMPLETELY!!!!