What the fuck does a rabbit that lays eggs have to do with Jesus' resurrection?

Don't use the Lord's name in vain please.

American '"""""""Protestantism""""""""

The church stole a bunch of pagan traditions.

Please stop peddling this retarded myth. It was debunked in the 19th century and you're only making yourself look foolish.

Guy at work tried to tell me that Easter and Christmas weren't ever pagan.

Said, among other things, that Christmas trees were meant to represent the cross, and that you're only supposed to give three gifts to symbolize the father, son, and holy ghost.

Christians will find a way to twist anything to make it make sense in their Sunday school education.

Mainly its just protestants, though. I used to work with a Catholic who acknowledged Christmas was originally pagan.

Nothing. The Easter Bunny only exists in Germanic countries.

youtube.com/watch?v=IffNsK_fdoY

The whole resurrection/walking god thing was pagan, why should Easter be any different?

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I'd think that on Veeky Forums you wouldn't get people who would still spout baseless bullshit but apparently I was wrong.

Do you have any proof or are you just here to larp as a monk?

>Do you have any proof
There's no proof to the contrary. The association with rabbits first appears in late medieval Germany, the association with eggs first appears in the early Church, and the name's relation to the pagan festival of Eostre only occurs in Germanic languages.

The "Easter is Pagan" theory is the one that lacks any sort of evidence, as has been demonstrated in various different posts throughout this thread so at this point you're either not bothering to read anything that disagrees with your preconceived view or are just plain dumb. Anyone with any sort of care for rigor in historical theories would immediately discard this Pagan connections bullshit.

Isnt most of christianity came from pagan rome?

It was an old German pagan motif, got kinda Christianized a bit (but was never front-and-center in religious celebrations), came to America through German immigrants, and then people commercialized the shit out of it in the 20th century. It's basically what happened with Santa Claus.

most people have been celebrating Spring, or the Spring Eqinox across the entire history of civilisation. Easter is just one of those. The resurrection of Christ is obviously going to coincide with nature's "rebirth" during Spring. Christianity was rather amorphous as it spread with the exception of a few zealots. And while many pagan traditions were eradicated, Christianity obviously adopted and developed rituals that were pagan in nature. The very structure of the Catholic Church is a development of the Roman bureaucracy.

These things are perennial. It is a misunderstanding to claim that Christianity slapped a new name on an old system, or to claim that the celebration of Spring with the celebration of fertility and renewal is uniquely Christian. Jesus himself was the perennial man, a meta-hero created from all the heroes of the ancients. It's impossible to be a Christian in the current year anyway.

>It was an old German pagan motif
It's a 14th century German motif.

>a meta-hero created from all the heroes of the ancients
>it's a Zeitgeist episode

The Easter Bunny is a culture hero.

by believing in Christ while enjoying our cultural heritage

Christmas and Easter are not pagan holidays. While plenty of the modern (mostly secular) motifs used have roots in paganism, it was because they were Christianized by former pagans (most of them Germans), which were then brought over to America by immigrants and commercialized in the 20th century.

Christians believe Easter happened in the spring because it happened right after Passover, which is also in the spring. Shocking!

Christians believe that Christmas happened on December 25th because of an old Jewish/early Christian belief that great religious heroes and prophets died on the same day they were conceived. Since Jesus died in the spring, he must've been conceived in the spring. Therefore, he would've been born around December.

If you're talking about the themes of Jesus dying and being reborn, just about every major religious belief system managed to develop a similar theme independently of one another. Is it more reasonable to believe that they thought of it themselves, or got it from contact with foreign religions that they probably would've viewed as filthy heathens?

The use of eggs and rabbits to represent fertility is a far older motif, but you're right in that the use of the Easter bunny in the modern sense did start in 14th century Germany.

Do you have one single source, just one single source, to back all that up? Are you aware that most icons that people now associate with Easter and such and that people claim are pagan in their origin, are only mentioned in connection to Easter centuries after Pagan worship in Europe died out? Do you have any single evidence for all those claims other than hurr it sounds totally plausible?

>The resurrection of Christ is obviously going to coincide with nature's "rebirth" during Spring.
Yes, because Jesus died during Pesach. Which is in spring.