There are many bunnies and eggs products during Easter, I don't know why they will show up during the Easter. Please answer me, thanks.
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It is mainly because easter ocuurs during spring. But i dont know why eggs are part of it.
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Almost all of the Christian Holidays are on top of Pagan Holidays. Easter is on top of Ostera. Bunnies and eggs are pagan symbols of spring and fertility. \n\nHallowe'en is a Pagan holiday, but most people don't know where the holiday origins are from. Pagans call the day Samhain. The old God dies on this day, and the Goddess mourns him until his rebirth at Yule (Christmas - Winter Solstice). The Catholic Church created All Saint's Day (November 1) as a holy day to recognize all the Catholic saints. But it wasn't a powerful enough idea to wipe out the traditional Hallowe'en celebrattions. Ironically, many Christians don't approve of the celebration of Halloween because of its Pagan origins, not realizing that almost all of the holidays they observe had Pagan beginnings.\n\nChristmas is on the Winter Solstice. Even non-Pagans use the term "Yule" around the Christmas holidays. Yule is celebrated on the Winter Solstice (December 22nd), on the shortest day of the year. Since the days get longer from this point in the year, Yule is a celebration of the returning sun and the rebirth of the Pagan God who died at Hallowe'en. As with Easter, the Christian story of the birth of Jesus fits nicely with the Pagan mythology of a "God" reborn. Traditions such as wreaths and Yule logs are remnants of the original beliefs. Gifts were exchanged at Yule long before the Wise Men offered their gifts to the baby Jesus.\n\nGroundhogs Day, although not specifically a Christian holiday, is on the day of the Pagan Holiday called Candlemas (or Imbolc) that is celebrated on February 2nd. Because spring is just starting to show itself at this time of year, there were various superstitions about predicting the weather, and how long it would be until the end of winter. The original idea was to watch for a hedgehog, but as people immigrated to North America, the tradition changed to a ground hog, since we didn't have hedgehogs here.\n\nThe reasons Christian holidays are celebrated on the Pagan holidays is because in the early era of the Christian Church in Europe they were having trouble getting the peasants and simple folk to accept the Christian faith, so they placed the Christian Holidays at the same time as the Pagan Celebrations for that everyone would be happy. By blending the two together it was easier to convert the people to Christianity.
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Easter is based on a lunar calendar.  It has to do with a specific Sunday after a number days following a full moon.  That's why the date moves around.\n\nI found a good article on www.wikipedia.org that goes into a great deal on the subject.
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Because don t eat red meat on Friday while Easter is coming is a way to make a sacrifice in the name of Christ, its means that you also sacrifice like Christ did, making a little es force not eating red meat
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Yep. And Easter is a pagan celebration of spring.
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My husband and I agreed, much to the dismay of my family, that we would never tell are children that Santa or the Easter bunny brought their presents.  We feel that if you lie to a child once about something as small as that, they will choose not to believe you about other more important things, they will label you a liar, and we didn't want that. Our children are fine and don't care, my son has agreed not to tell other children out of kindness, and my daughter one year decided to believe in Santa on her own, and then the next year told us he wasn't real, that mommy and daddy were Santa.  So, I guess in the end kids will figure things out for themselves.
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Because thought the easter bunny looks real good and chocolaty, we have found it is only a hollow shell.  \n\nJesus, one the other hand is what fills the hollow shell that was once me.
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Going to church for today. We did an Easter egg hunt earlier in the week with my two married sisters and their children. After three rounds of the children finding the eggs the adults hid, the fourth round was reversed, and adults had to find the (hard-boiled) eggs the children hid. It was hard! There's still one somewhere in the living room we couldn't find! Usually we celebrate Easter with reading part of the New Testament or Book of Mormon about Christ's death and resurrection. My little brother is 18 and too old for Easter baskets. My mom used to make "bunny bread" in the shape of a large bunny, or bunny rolls which included a little "tail" in the middle.
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it's going to be like a halloween of sorts i think. or like 911. non-christians are going to take the symbolism of the numbers to their head and start thinking of evil to do. christians don't have to worry as we have God and will end up in heaven if something horrible did happen...however, i'm going to pray a little extra hard on that day, like my friend suggested today. that seems about right. take care and God bless!
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order children's book, adjustable for dif ages.  aroun $12 donation. 1-800-643-4645.  \ni wish they made a game like little army men so we could react all those battles in the old testiment.\n\ni need to chat WITH YOU seiously about easter.  it was a bad translation one time in new testiment.  \n\nput your thinking cap on, now.  was JESUS our istar lamb or PASSOVER LAMB? passover is still the same celebration that the children of israel had and is held the same time of year that they held it then.read exodus again. \n\nPLEASE CONTACT ME ON myPROFILE FOR STUDY MATERIALS FOR PROOFS.\n\nI'VE HUNTED EASTER EGGS WITH THE BEST OF THEM, BUT I'VE LEARNED DIFFERENT NOW.it will not hurt kids to hunt eggs as long as they know they have nothing to do with RESSURECTION.  hope we can be friends.
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As a young child I was likely to find my Easter basket hidden behind a chair or some other easy to find place.\n\n One Easter though the bunny decided to give us a challenge and hid one in the dishwasher (clean, no dirty dishes in there) and the other in a clothes hamper that had never been used for dirty clothes. \n\nMass hysteria broke out as our parents heard our sobs that there were no baskets to be found, lol. With children of different ages you might want to color code the eggs, treats, and hide the ones for the older one in more difficult places. \n\nI once made a hunt for some nieces with written clues in rhyme to find the treats. At the location of the next treat was another slip of paper with a clue in rhyme for the next one, and so forth. Some treats were inside, some outside. They had a lot of fun, and so did I watching them.
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Actually the Rabbit has eaten Trix several times! They use to hold elections where kids voted if they though The Rabbit should eat Trix (one time) I am 47 and I recall this happening several times and Rabbit always won! Now if they do this again for upcoming election who knows but yes the Rabbit has eaten Trix on several occasions but only one bowl each time then its back to "Trix are for kids"
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Easter is more important then Christmas.  It is the celebration of the paschal mystery.  Christ, Jesus son of God fully human and fully God dies and rises on the third day.  Christmas is very important to, because this was his birth but Easter brings us life after death.\n\nI don't know where people are getting Easter has pagan origins. (Then again using the english word easter and not paschal mystery it would be pagan.  That is why I like the romance languages and latin, then it is not pagan.)  Easter is set around the Jewish feast of passover.  Yes Christmas replaced the birth of the roman sun god feast.\n\nI think why they are trying to wipe out Christmas is because of how big and commercial it has become.  Easter is big but the stores don't start promoting it five months in advance like they do Christmas.  Also in public spaces we don't put up risen Jesus statutes as they do putting up nativity sets at Christmas time.
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Eggs sold in the supermarket are unfertilized.  Roosters are necessary to fertilize eggs in order to get baby chickens.  I'm not sure if these eggs can be fertilized at a later time.  Help me out someone.
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You have really had a long sleep.St.Patricks Day is over and Easter is almost here.\n DUH!!! Now I see it.YAHOO why are you passing us old worn out questions? You must be checking to see if we are paying attention.you got me this time,but from now on I will be checking.
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I am a Christian, however I find those types of displays lame, and probably going to make non-believers think we are losers.  Bumperstickers are pretty much lame.  Although I did see a Jesus fish once that actually had legs, and instead of saying "Jesus" below it, it said "Darwin".  Ok, that is even funny to me, why take these things serious?
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Maybe because it's a Pagan holiday? Don't say it's stupid before asking him the details of why. I personally don't like how commercialized the holiday has become. It's not about spending money, it's about spending time with your loved ones. It's Jesus' birthday, not ours, so exchanging material is so very trife.