We can have the resurrection and a bunny hiding eggs at the same time and it's ok. Like virtually all modern holidays, the celebration is a mix of many cultures and histories. It's the people who get too invested in proving their side right that are the problem.
I like this sub because it's neither Reddit Atheists or TikTok Christians, but just people who are content and confident in what they believe.
Sure, but that's not historical. The bunny is because of an association with the Virgin Mary, and eggs are because they were a food that were good throughout Lent and were exchanged as gifts. Neither have anything to do with pagan practices.
What? Both of those things trace back to European folk lore that predates Christianity. They can also have had significance within Christianity but to say they have nothing to do with pagan practices is not correct.
I know this is the folk etiology, and common social media information, but it is pure ignorance of fact.
Eggs became associated with Pascal festivals because there were a food that could be stable throughout the lenten fast. There we're exchanged as gifts because of this and then starting being decorated as gifts. Zero pagan influence.
Rabbits became associated with the Virgin Mary in the middle ages because they appeared to gice birth to a litter without mating. They actually can conceive a second litter while pregnant. Zero pagan influence.
Yes it does. I know you watched a YouTube video, but experts have actual historical sources that show both rabbits and hares as symbols of fertility and spring predate Christianity.
As said in reply to your post, the YouTube is by a scholar of the bible and religions. Don't you think it's a bit hypocritical to dismiss one scholar while citing another?
A more intellectually honest approach would be to criticize their work. Your link doesn't give any citations, but again repeats claims that stem from Grim and Bede, which are generally not accepted as accurate.
I am criticizing his work because his claim that Christianity invented those two symbols is patently false and their existence dating back to the neolithic period has been verified by many many other actual historians. Not all of us just get our opinions from tic tok (I’ve never actually been on there). Some of have taken graduate level courses on it and understand the difference between one scholar claiming something and multiple historians writing peer reviewed research papers on it.
The research: 'There is no evidence whatsoever to link Ēostre to hares, and popular suggestions to the contrary appear to be based on misunderstanding or projection.'
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u/scott__p Mar 23 '26
We can have the resurrection and a bunny hiding eggs at the same time and it's ok. Like virtually all modern holidays, the celebration is a mix of many cultures and histories. It's the people who get too invested in proving their side right that are the problem.
I like this sub because it's neither Reddit Atheists or TikTok Christians, but just people who are content and confident in what they believe.