Why a BUNNY??

[Basia]

I have a dumb question. Why is it that the most holy of holidays (ie the birth and resurection of Christ) have been twisted and manipulated into:

A. an old fat man in a red suit breaing into your house and leaving "toys" under a tree

and

B. a rabbit breaking into your house and leaving egg shaped droppings in a basket?

Any thoughts on this?

 

[alexandraaah]

You might not want to hear my answer, but I think it's because there probably isn't a God.

 

[patient1]

The Santa Claus thing is at least based on generous Christians that once lived.

The bunny is a pagan fertillity symbol . So are eggs. They timed the Christian High Holy Days to distract folks from those heathen rites of spring. This is what we have to show for it.

 

[Chantal Marchon]

The bunny is because of the ancient pagan holiday of Ostara- it is a fertility celebration welcoming the renewing of the earth at spring and the fertility of people, plants and animals.

Rabbits and eggs are symbols of fertility.

Somehow this ritual could not be stamped out completely so it was transformed into a childish ritual .

Stana Claus is a sadly bastardized version of Saint Nicholaus who was alive quite a few centuries ago and well known for his generosity and kindness to children, especially around the birth of Christ.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Why the first Sunday following the first full moon following the first day of spring!!

Fuck the bunnies, what's this other Bullshit?

RhumbRunner

 

[Lasz]

Because entraprenuer capitalists realised that Santa and The Bunny were a great marketing tool that bring in a lot of money! And that these two figures make these holiest of holiadays a good way to boost the economy and make some money.

Laz (the business major)

 

[Laurel]

I'm a sucker for those Reeses peanut butter eggs. But those marshmallow Peeps things can go.

 

[LukkyKnight]

The fat guy in red is because in mid-winter it's a great splash of color.

The rabbit thing just works a lot better than an orca or a kangaroo, a tiger or an ostrich.

Or I could be thinking sideways

 

[AusTess]

Aussies are trying to make the bilby the animal of Easter.



And we're just hoping the rest of the world will follow.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

The Easter Bilby??

 

[Ice Cold]

Next thing you'll be questioning will be The Great Pumpkins existence!!! Noooooo

 

[AusTess]

The Easter Bilby??

The easter bilby.



Cant quite see it taking over the world,can you?

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Cant quite see it taking over the world,can you?

Why not? Little pink chickens, plastic green grass and chocolate animals did!!

Why Not the Easter Bilby!!

Whats it look like?

Rhumb

 

[Mellon Collie]

The bunny is because of the ancient pagan holiday of Ostara- it is a fertility celebration welcoming the renewing of the earth at spring and the fertility of people, plants and animals.

Rabbits and eggs are symbols of fertility.

What she said - if you ask any Christian who knows their shit (try hard, I'm sure you'll find one) they will tell you that the egg is a symbol of Christ's tomb which his life burst from but most don't even have enough sense to even think of that.

All of the major Christian holidays are Pagan rituals with the Christian stories told in the backround, kind of like filler. The reason is: when the Christians were "saving" the Pagans they had a hard time converting and forcing them to give up their practices and beliefs (the Celts were the last to surrender as a matter of fact). So the Christians took Pagan holidays/rituals and watered them down. They then converted almost all of the gods and goddesses into Saints and sifted their own stories over top the existing ones. In fact, even the mythology of Jesus' life is a watered down version of the Pagan god Attis.

I wrote a thesis paper on this subject.

 

[Zamdrist]

patient1 & Chantal Marchon

Sounds like to me you both are saying we all should be fucking like rabbits this Easter.

 

[Ginny]

Why a BUNNY?

'cause he leaves big lil girls....**** toys.....

http://www.hoppingcreatures.com/carrot.jpg

 

[Unclebill]

Is this a subtle effort . . .

'cause he leaves big lil girls....**** toys.....

http://www.hoppingcreatures.com/carrot.jpg

I could definintely learn to eat more carrots if they were all served this way!

 

[Lost Cause]

Every year some friends and I would go out for our Easter Bunny shoot. We would buy a bunch of stuffed bunnies, telephone books, and bowling pins. Sprinkle that with an assortment of full metal jacketed bullets by various weaponry, and it was a hole-y Easter. After the first volley, we would charge the bunnies that were left with machetes and crossbows. We didn't mind doing this as, being infantry, we were druids!
Sunday for breakfast, rabbit and eggs!

 

[scylis]

I'm a sucker for those Reeses peanut butter eggs. But those marshmallow Peeps things can go.

HEATHEN!!

BLASPHEMER!!

wanna fuck?

 

[Ginny]

Sounds like to me you both are saying we all should be fucking like rabbits this Easter.

zam....didn't you mean "we should all be fucking rabbits this easter"?

 

[Mensa]

What she said - if you ask any Christian who knows their shit (try hard, I'm sure you'll find one) they will tell you that the egg is a symbol of Christ's tomb which his life burst from but most don't even have enough sense to even think of that.

A true Christian wouldn't tell you that bcause s/he would know that the egg symbol has no place in the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It was an pagan add on and any such explanation was simply an attempt to justify it's symbolic inclusion.

Eggs, rabbits, and candies have nothing whatever to do with the real reason for this holiday. They are nothing more than a relatively harmless diversion.

 

[patient1]

Why the first Sunday following the first full moon following the first day of spring!!

Fuck the bunnies, what's this other Bullshit?

RhumbRunner

Sundays are ancient Christian.

The first full moon following the first day of spring sounds pretty Druid/Celtic/Wiccan to me. Sounds like as good a time as any for rites of spring.

 

[Cheyenne]

What she said - if you ask any Christian who knows their shit (try hard, I'm sure you'll find one) they will tell you that the egg is a symbol of Christ's tomb which his life burst from but most don't even have enough sense to even think of that.

I wrote a thesis paper on this subject.

I hope your grade on your paper reflected the error in your logic, especially if you had a Christian teacher with "enough sense" to know your egg theory is full of shit.

Bless your heart.

 

[phrodeau]

I hope your grade on your paper reflected the error in your logic, especially if you had a Christian teacher with "enough sense" to know your egg theory is full of shit.

Bless your heart.

Sorry, Ms. Smartie Pants. There's no theory involved here. If an egg symbolizes a tomb for Mellon Collie, then her logic is valid. It remains to be seen whether her thesis presents the idea as pervasive or authorized among Christians at large.

There are several adherents to the idea that pagan texts, rituals and symbols are all corruptions and misinterpretations of their singular infallible belief.

 

[1sexylady]

I'm a sucker for those Reeses peanut butter eggs. But those marshmallow Peeps things can go.

I am with you on this....who the hell cares...eat the candy..