Is the Easter Bunny pagan?

I don't know, but the Easter bunny is delicious. Love rabbit meat.

Oh, i know this.
Painting Easter eggs was a custom of mesopotamian Christians(today's Assyrian Church of the East) that spread to the rest of Christendom, because its fun.
And rabbits were once believed to have been capable of asexual reproduction(which is why you see them with the Virgin Mary in medieval icons).
Its just religious symbolism that didnt pass the test of time(and consumerism didnt help) unlike stuff like the Jesus fish.

As a sidenote, peacocks(believed to have had incorruptible flesh) and phoenixses(need i explain more?) were also christian symbols in Antiquity.

Video explanation of non-pagan (but secular) origin of "Easter bunny". Also explains how Ostara-Easter "goddess" connection is specious at best, if not outright hogwash.

I would have sworn to have seen on a Catholic television channel saying that the Easter eggs and the rabbit were of pagan origin.

If it was a catholic tv program that said that, it was probably the eternal """jesuits""" striking again.

I saw a Catholic church that had papers describing the history of Marian veneration, calling it "worship" and saying it comes from pagan goddess worship.

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Whatever makes you think your church isn't a desolate wasteland, man.

You can thank Martin "Jesus fornicated with Mary Magdalene" Luther for you thinking that.
Not my fault you hate Jesus and His Church.

How could it be anything but hogwash? It's only called Easter in English. In latin, the language of the Catholic Church until V2, it's Pascha (which in turn derives from aramaic then hebrew pesach for passover)

Short version:
Easter eggs come from the fact that chickens lay eggs over Lent, but Catholics don't (or at least didn't) eat them until Lent ended…on Easter…when they would have a ton of eggs just laying around.
The Easter bunny has various origin theories, with the most likely one being that hares come out of their holes in spring…around Easter.
Bonus round:
Easter is called Pascha or some variation thereof in every European language except English, so there's no way the word came from 'Ishtar,' a Babylonian goddess whose worship died out centuries before Christ was born (some people are really retarded). Easter is named after Eostre-monath, monath being old English for 'month,' Eostre-monath being the month Easter was in. Eostre being a goddess is nothing but a guess made by a monk in the 9th(?) century.
Also, Halloween isn't pagan. Pretty much everything people peg on the pagans is from medieval Catholicism (except Jack-o-Lanterns).
Most of the idiocy of Christian holidays being pagan comes from anti-Catholic pamphlet written by an American Protestant in 19th century America (as an American Protestant, I disavow) in an effort to have the Catholic calendar purged.

That’s actually interesting, I knew about the eggs but not the bunny stuff