How are bunnies, colored eggs, baskets and new clothes related to the Christian concept of Easter?

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• the bunnies and eggs are carried from paganism. Only Jesus matters at Easter.

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  by wfbrad on August 19th, 2004

• Not bad, but it had nothing to do with paganism. Only someone ignorant of history would allege such trash.

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  by Ignatius on March 25th, 2005

• ignatius seems to be the only one ignorant here, Easter is a Christian overlap of the spring solstice, which pagans celebrate

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  by Scoundral on May 29th, 2005

• In an answer Ignorantius actually supplied links to a site that discredits his beliefs, see is Easter a Christian holiday?

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  by Anonymous on July 5th, 2005

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• So true. So sad.

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  by Eric Henry on June 18th, 2004

• Absolutely correct, and it is very sad.

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  by wfbrad on August 19th, 2004

• This is also a load of bunk...and a blatantly offensive anti-Catholic post. Ignorance should be kept to yourself

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  by Ignatius on March 25th, 2005

• True. The catholic denomination did play an important role for those bunnies.

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  by Anonymous on April 3rd, 2007

• Nonsense. The word "Easter" is only used in English, and comes from the Anglo-Saxon month Oester-monath, which means "month of budding/opening/beginning." In almost every other language it is called some variant of PASCHA (which was Koine Greek for Passover).
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  Easter eggs and bunnies had nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Church. They were common to spring festivals from Iceland to India for obvious reasons. New Christians continued to celebrate the season with them: they were perfectly natural vestigial holdovers of earlier customs - as it's far easier for people to change their beliefs than it is for them to change or abandon perfectly wholesome and lovely traditions - consider the number of Atheists who have Easter Egg hunts and Easter Baskets for their kids!
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  (And FYI, Christians were celebrating Pascha with painted eggs in Armenia, Persian and Ethiopia 2 centuries before there even was a Roman Catholic Church or a Pope.)

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  by Stormarm on April 10th, 2009

• FYI According to the Catholic Church there has always been a pope since Jesus supposedly rose to heaven.

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  by hedge-rider on April 10th, 2009

• Yeah, they like to put that one out, but every Catholic historian worth his salt is forced to equivocate saying such things as "the Papacy sleeps in Peter." They effectively say/admit that "though there was - of course - always a Pope and Papacy, no one knew it until the 7th century ... not even the Pope."

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  by Stormarm on April 10th, 2009

• If they do not hold that, though, you realize, they lose all argument for papal infallibility. For the infallibility stems from Peter.

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  by hedge-rider on April 10th, 2009

• Actually, it stems from the 1st Lateran Council (the Council of Flatterers) and Pius IX in 1869. Before that, it was "the Church" (meaning the full ecumenical body of Christ) that was infallible.
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  However, Papal claims to being in some sense a special heir to Peter (and consequently possessing the final say in disputes of matters of doctrine and practice) go back to the 250s with Stephen I and the Novatian controversy. (Though Stephen's claim to being Peter's heir was not that he stood in a direct line of Apostolic succession from Peter, but that his throne rested on Peter's bones.)
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  But that claim to supreme authority was rejected by the Church for centuries, and still is rejected by the Eastern Orthodox, the Copts, the Mar-Thoms, the Nestorians, and "the Old Catholic Church", and not just the Johnny-come-lately Protestants. In fact, for the next 16 centuries after Stephen I, an ecumenical council of the bishops was held to possess authority superior to any and all Popes.

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  by Stormarm on April 10th, 2009

• However, the biblical support for such a thing, as claimed currently by the Catholic Church, is found in Matthew - something along the lines of "I shall call you Cephas and upon you I shall build my church. Whatever you hold true on earth so shall my father hold it true in heaven."

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  by hedge-rider on April 10th, 2009

• A slightly garbled rendition of MT 16:18-19 ("And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.") but none the less ...
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  It should be noted that this is said to Peter. There's nothing in it that suggests there will be a line of successors - not here or anywhere else in the Bible.

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  by Stormarm on April 10th, 2009

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  Also, in MT 18:15-20, Jesus gives "the keys" to all disciples - and also explains what it means, making it clear it has virtually nothing to do with what Catholic Tradition says it does:
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  "And if your brother sins, go and reprove him in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer. Truly I say to you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst."
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  Most tellingly, the whole passage comes in the larger discourse of chapter 18: “Who shall be greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?” the answer being, “He who makes himself least.”

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  by Stormarm on April 10th, 2009

• PORK FRIED RICE AND FRIED CHICKEN!

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  by Anonymous on April 10th, 2009

• Stormarm, I don't really care as to counters to the argument or if it is valid. I'm not Catholic. I was merely pointing out the Catholic Church's argument regarding papal infallibility if they are asked for scriptural back-up (which they typically don't care about anyway). And I wasn't trying to give a verbatim verse the first time, just the general idea. I don't look at the bible as something to be memorized like that.

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  by hedge-rider on April 11th, 2009

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• Actually the bunnies and eggs and "stuff" have very significant symbolism to some religious people - just not Christians. Pagans place a good deal of importance on them.

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  by hedge-rider on April 10th, 2009

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• thanx

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  by Harro Mique on April 3rd, 2007

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• OK answer, but Easter is like, not spring for half of the hemispheres out there.

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  by thintaonga on March 31st, 2006