I wrote up
the following post a couple of years ago, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to re-post it as we head into the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.
My children were asking me why people, including most Christians, celebrate “Easter” with bunnies, chicks and eggs. I was trying to explain to them the fact that Easter is actually a pagan holiday, and that bunnies, chicks and eggs are a symbol of fertility etc. One of my older boys googled Easter and found the following answer…from an unbeliever. Note in the answer below how the world scoffs at the inconsistency of those who claim to love Christ. Just one more way we step in line with the world and refuse to be “salt and light”. One day we will give an account to God for our “traditions”, “great memories”, and “warm fuzzy bunny feelings”. All the feelings will be gone on that day…and we will comprehend the tragic, historical consequences of our blindness and selfishness.
Here is the unbeliever’s answer:
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. 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!
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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