why do we have bunnies and chocolate at easter? does anyone know the signifigance of them?

Stolen from a website somewhere:

 

The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season.

chocolate....so us mortals can have fun with the festival! lol

 

on a serious note...it's said also that christmas is celebrated in late december not because that's when jesus was born, but because "pagan" europeans celebrated winter solistice festival around that time. so christianity being like "Borg" from Star Trek, it just made the festival all its own.... lol

 

Christianity's appropriating stuff from Hinduism too now...

Easter is a Christian festival celebrating the time Jesus laid a chocolate egg and helped a chocolate rabbit with a broken leg. Some scholars believe that this was based on an acid trip, but they say that about everything.

-from chudsite

hahahahah

 

 

good one, clocks! :D ;)

Easter is a Christian festival celebrating the time Jesus laid a chocolate egg and helped a chocolate rabbit with a broken leg. Some scholars believe that this was based on an acid trip, but they say that about everything.

 

HAhAHAHAHHA...that's funny Charline.

its funny cos most people kids most dont know the real meaning of easter.....it was actualy kind of funny.....

 

this happened at church today in a sunday school.

 

teacher:do u know what easter really is

kid:its when jesus died for our sins

teacher: thats good friday, whats easter?

kid: umm...easter is when the easter bunny comes!

umm...easter is when the easter bunny comes!

 

isn't it though?? I kid i kid. :P

hahahah

I believe it came from the Russian Mythology :/

why do we have bunnies and chocolate at easter? does anyone know the signifigance of them?

 

 

so all the big companies can make chocolate bunnies and eggs at easter on a mass scale for all the weakminded chocoholics to buy. what a great way to make some money :dozey:

Because Jesus told us to.

buhaha

does jesus like chocolate?

 

did they have chocolate 2000 years ago?

:lol: You didn't! You didn't!!!!! :P

 

Chocolate it's an invention that was taken to Europe by the Spaniols, who brought them from the Aztecas, in Mexico, Latin America, or North America (NOT the U.S.A tho, MEXICO )

 

I thought the Easter bunnies and the chocolaye stuff came from RUSSIA. The aristocrats used to give eachother, on Easter, eggs, precious eggs, made of gold and diamons and so.. and since the poor people did not have enough money to make eggs similar to those, they made hard eggs and paited them, and give it to everyone. ANd when the chocolate arrived to Europe (almost 1500), they becae Chocolate eggs! :D

 

That's what my year on Russian mythology taught me! :D :lol:

The Azteks? I thought it came from another tribe... just dont know which one..

that's funny, i'd always just assumed that chocolate and all that came about when marketers started having a tough time selling resurrection-related merchandise. :P

I once saw chocolate crucifixes! how weird is that?

:stunned:

This is a very intresting thread ! Very I have my reasons!!

The Azteks? I thought it came from another tribe... just dont know which one..

 

The Azteks or The Mayas......... I can't remember exactly, thought the Maya were a previous civilization, and I think they were the ones who invented the Chocolate.... but I am sure the Azteks had it too, in their empire! :D

i guess if anybody here would know it would be the south american. :D

 

(carla)

yes, go carla!

*does a funky little dance* go carla go carla go carla

 

*realises people are watching and runs away* :stunned:

Does anyone else still have those Easter tie in ads to get you to buy things at their stupid store even though Easter is long over? :angry: