And the bunny. And the eggs. Chocolate, peeps, jelly beans, fake grass, and all the commercialization. You can’t really have Easter without all that stuff. Shoot, even churches have Easter egg hunts.
…none of which has to do with a resurrection. But without all that extra stuff Easter would be about as popular as good Friday or ash Wednesday.
None of that stuff is Pagan. The Easter egg carries Christian symbolism. Eggs were popular as they were hard boiled on the lead-up to easter due to Lent. The Rabbit was from a German Easter-Hare tradition, likely due to Easter being in Spring.
Sure, you can argue that Easter is being secularised like Christmas and Halloween is. That doesn’t make it Pagan.
Except that never happened with pagan festivals either, apart from Easter taking the name of the month that was named after a pagan deity.
And the bunny. And the eggs. Chocolate, peeps, jelly beans, fake grass, and all the commercialization. You can’t really have Easter without all that stuff. Shoot, even churches have Easter egg hunts.
…none of which has to do with a resurrection. But without all that extra stuff Easter would be about as popular as good Friday or ash Wednesday.
None of that stuff is Pagan. The Easter egg carries Christian symbolism. Eggs were popular as they were hard boiled on the lead-up to easter due to Lent. The Rabbit was from a German Easter-Hare tradition, likely due to Easter being in Spring.
Sure, you can argue that Easter is being secularised like Christmas and Halloween is. That doesn’t make it Pagan.