I don't get it, what's the connection? Or is he just a secularist idol to replace Christ?
What does the Easter Bunny have to do with Christ's resurrection?
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Lincoln Rodriguez
Same reason I don't celebrate Christmas as such
Jacob Thompson
Bunnies represent fertility, since they breed like, well, rabbits. Same thing with eggs. Easter is named after the goddess Eostre, a Germanic fertility goddess.
Cooper Adams
Medieval bestiaries put about the stupid idea that hares reproduced asexually so it became associated with the Virgin Mary and you weren't supposed to eat eggs during Lent in the old days so people boiled them so they'd keep until the fast was over. This got mixed together in Germany into a folk character like Santa or the Christ-child who'd reward good children with treats.
Gabriel Gomez
Do you have a source on this? This would be very good for apologetics
Ryder Smith
Pics related, iconographic association of the Virgin Mary with white hares.
Hares repoducing aesexually, book 8 chapter 81 of Pliny's natural history. I'm also leaving in the dumb claim about hares growing a new butthole every year just to show what nonsense was copied down into those medieval bestiaries
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I'm having difficulty finding a decent citation on the Easter Bunny as a Easter equivalent to Santa, it comes up a lot but they don't source their claims. But I'd also point out neither wikipedia or the apostates at rationalwiki support the association with the false god Eostre which seems to have been made up by modern writers.
Jace Ross
Hares would come out during the easter period, people started associating them with the holiday, they became replaced with bunnies later.
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Kevin Adams
I've heard that it's actually an Ishtar holiday that worships the rising sun but it's kinds of difficult to prove.
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Sebastian Gray
Wouldn't they just capture a couple of hares and see that they mate normally and they don't grow new buttholes? This must be some kind of medieval running joke.