Association of the Easter Bunny with Eostre. The strongest evidence for such a thing is a bald supposition by one of the Brothers Grimm and a couple of legends about Eostre turning a bird into a rabbit invented by some modern writers.
Pliny wrote a lot of weird things in his natural history. For instance he wrote down one claim that when bears are born the cubs are a kind of amorphous goo that has to be licked into shape by their mothers.
Because that's idiotic to the extreme.
A germanic version of a christian holiday can't be about a sumerian goddess(which isn't even a sun deity).
That's intentional, to differentiate ourselves from judaism, and not mix the holidays up.
Seriously, this was like the first doctrinal conflict in apostolic Christianity.
en.wikipedia.org
That is explictly christian.
Taken from Mesopotamian christians.
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It's a pastry, for crying out loud.
Most christian countries have a variant.
An american tradition born out of lack of refrigeration to keep meat fresh until Easter.
Well, in EO, our services are in the middle of the day, and at midnight. What now?
They are, and the author is a historically ignorant buffoon.
its roman paganism, feels good to be monotheist
If i remeber correctly easter is another spelling of the babalonian fertility goddess ishtar, and bunnies were her holy animal, a symbol of fertility. same as the hot crossed buns are a representative of talamund another babalonian false god. In the end it comes down to pagan traditions that have infiltrated the church, the same as Christmas trees
You are no different than the people who claim Jesus means Hail Zeus
Pliny was pretty much the Buzzfeed of his era sadly.
Here's an Atheist talking about the whole pagan copy-cat theory of Easter: historyforatheists.com
But I'll summarise the high-points for you:
Every other language in the world (except possibly German) calls Easter some variant either of the Hebrew word for Passover, Pesach, or of their own languages word for resurrection. So this argument basically holds that somehow the name skipped thousands of miles and hundreds of years before turning back up in England. Does that really seem reasonable to you? Really?
This is still iffy, but a little more reasonable, but the link would still only be the name, and we know nothing about the alleged Eostre's worship. If I said I was a June baby that wouldn't indicate any link between me and the Roman goddess Juno either.
Anyone who's ever kept both Lent and chickens knows why eggs are a traditional Easter treat. (Or chocolate for that matter)
It's hardly surprising that an animal commonly associated with Spring would also get to be associated with the main Church festival of Spring. Though the modern version is heavily commercialised/secularised.
lel I can see why someone might think that.
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