To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Bunnies have nothing to do with the real meaning of Easter.
To: celtic gal; MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Well, I think I can make a somewhat tenuous case that the Easter Bunny has SOME connection with the meaning of Easter . . . .
Our friend The Venerable Bede (author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English, circa 731) tells us that the English name "Easter" came from an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess named Eostre.
Eostre's representative animal or totem was a rabbit.
So there's at least SOME connection!
16 posted on
04/07/2007 8:55:53 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: celtic gal
You obviously didn’t see the latest episode of South Park, where it’s all explained...
Mark
(Newest member of the “Hare Club for Men”)
19 posted on
04/07/2007 8:58:58 PM PDT by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: celtic gal
Bunnies have nothing to do with the real meaning of Easter.That is true, but getting rid of anything resembling Christianity (Easter) is a sign of Christophobia.
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