Could someone show me an example of a pagan egg-laying bunny?
Apparently this is one of them thar pagan things, but I've never actually seen an example of this from, you know, history.
Simply saying "eggs and bunnies are pagan" isn't a meaningful statement. Besides this, eggs and bunnies aren't pagan, last I checked God is the Creator of all things, and all things exist for His glory.
Unless of course you believe some other god exists and he/she created eggs and bunnies, but then the charge of "pagan" falls squarely into your court.
Having said all that, I'm not sure I've paid attention to "egg laying bunnies" in my life apart from the Cadbury one whose eggs are chocolate and filled with delicious cavity-creating white and yellow sugar ooze.
-CryptoLutheran
It goes all the way back to the Babylon legends of Semiramis and Tammuz.
Ill just attach one of many available sources online on the history of how the Egg came about. There are many and they have nothing to hide.
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The Easter Egg
Most children and families who color or hide Easter eggs as part of their Resurrection Sunday tradition have no knowledge of the origin of these traditions. Easter egg activities have become a part of Western culture. Many would be surprised and even dismayed to learn where the traditions originated.
The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. They believed an old fable about an egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the
Euphrates River. From this marvelous eggaccording to the ancient storythe Goddess Astarte (Easter) [Semiramis], was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter.
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The idea of a mystic egg spread from Babylon to many parts of the world.
[12] In Rome, the mystic egg preceded processions in honor of the Mother Goddess Roman. The egg was part of the sacred ceremonies of the Mysteries of Bacchus. The Druids used the egg as their sacred emblem. In Northern Europe, China and Japan the eggs were colored for their sacred festivals.
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The egg was also a symbol of fertility; Easter (Semiramis) was the goddess of Fertility. The Easter egg is a symbol of the pagan Mother Goddess, and it even bears one of her names.
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If you do an unbiased search on how easter eggs came to be, as a Christian you would not want to keep them as part of your celebration for Jesus.
