When did Easter Bunny arrive from USA to UK as sales promotion. Thought Easter eggs were to do with Christ.
Greasy Lips McGee
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Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 01:51:00 PM
When did Easter Bunny arrive from USA to UK as sales promotion. Thought Greasy Lips McGee Easter eggs were to do with Christ. Registered User Joined: Saturday, 29th of May 2010, 17:30:18 Posts: 1625 Viewed 14089 times
Chum
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Thursday, 5th of August 2010 01:15:36 AM
the easter bunny is not real you doofus lol Chum hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Registered User Joined: Saturday, 24th of April 2010, 02:11:30 Posts: 217 Viewed 19533 times
Dee-Dee
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Friday, 6th of August 2010 03:59:10 AM
The egg apparently symbolises the stone that was rolled away Dee-Dee from the cave that Jesus was laid in when he was crucified. I wonder how Registered User many kiddies know this!! As usual, the money makers have gone to town and Joined: Saturday, 15th of May 2010, 06:40:12 turned an age old festival into a commercial dosh grabbing venture.!!! Posts: 973 Don't have a clue when the custom of chocolate eggs arrived from the USA, Viewed 17316 times sorry..
Chick
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Saturday, 7th of August 2010 06:47:33 PM
the whole Easter egg B.S. is from the USA and it was a way to Chick entertain the children and it got out of control..being crucified was to Registered User hard to explain to kids they made up this silly moke of a holiday to Joined: Thursday, 13th of May 2010, 21:25:20 revert away from the true meaning .the passover from Moses leading the Posts: 1437 people of Israel out of Egypt to Christ being crucified during passover to Viewed 18944 times humiliate the Jews.
Sweeetness
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Sunday, 8th of August 2010 03:18:48 AM
The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church Sweeetness absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more Registered User reluctant to give up their holidays & festivals than their gods, they Joined: Thursday, 3rd of June 2010, 11:53:12 simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted Posts: 1999 by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Viewed 16542 times Pagan practices & by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan
folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices.
In second century Europe, the predominate spring festival was a raucous
Saxon fertility celebration in honor of the Saxon Goddess Eastre (Ostara),
whose sacred animal was a hare.
The colored eggs associated with the bunny are of another, even more
ancient origin. The eggs associated with this & other Vernal festivals
have been symbols of rebirth & fertility for so long the precise roots of
the tradition are unknown, & may date to the beginning of human
civilization. Ancient Romans & Greeks used eggs as symbols of fertility,
rebirth, & abundance- eggs were solar symbols, & figured in the festivals
of numerous resurrected gods.
Pagan fertility festivals at the time of the Spring equinox were common-
it was believed that at this time, when day & night were of equal length,
male & female energies were also in balance. The hare is often associated
with moon goddesses; the egg & the hare together represent the god & the
goddess, respectively.
Moving forward fifteen hundred years, we find ourselves in Germany, where
children await the arrival of Oschter Haws, a rabbit who will lay colored
eggs in nests to the delight of children who discover them Easter morning.
It was this German tradition that popularized the 'Easter bunny' in
America, when introduced into the American cultural fabric by German
settlers in Pennsylvania.
Sassy Pants
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Monday, 9th of August 2010 08:50:22 AM
Actually, the bunny would have been in UK long before USA with Sassy Pants the pagans. Registered User Joined: Thursday, 10th of June 2010, 18:27:10 Posts: 166 Viewed 12459 times
Bae
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Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 07:32:44 PM
eggs= new life. Bae Christ- rose agian, born agian, rose from dead.etc.. Registered User Joined: Thursday, 17th of June 2010, 12:35:29 Posts: 884 Viewed 6646 times
HALIMAW
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Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 04:02:35 PM
easter is the ressurection of jesus christ. HALIMAW i have no idea where the eggs came into play Registered User Joined: Tuesday, 25th of May 2010, 12:39:40 Posts: 219 Viewed 10818 times
Mo-mo-jo-jo
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Thursday, 12th of August 2010 05:33:01 PM
its same as santa claus and christmas, its all about money now, Mo-mo-jo-jo not religious beliefs Registered User Joined: Monday, 31st of May 2010, 11:00:40 Posts: 778 Viewed 5028 times
Sweet cloud
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Friday, 13th of August 2010 01:19:18 PM
It is a pagan celebration. Resurrection day is the Sunday after Sweet cloud Passover Sunday. Registered User Joined: Sunday, 30th of May 2010, 09:28:02 Posts: 1142 Viewed 16594 times
Hell Hound
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Saturday, 14th of August 2010 04:21:52 AM
as jesus said as he was being put on the cross '' don't touch Hell Hound my easter eggs i will be back for them on monday'' Registered User Joined: Monday, 10th of May 2010, 16:36:44 Posts: 834 Viewed 18878 times
Love Bug!
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Sunday, 15th of August 2010 12:13:38 PM
bunnys= spring = paegen Love Bug! christ = christian. Registered User Joined: Friday, 14th of May 2010, 10:24:15 Posts: 710 christiians stole the time of year from the paegens. Viewed 6282 times
GRRR. :P
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