This isn't at all clear. I'm looking at the texts for worship for tghe Paschal Feast. I see no mention of eggs or rabbits and no fertility goddess.
Maybe some other people a long time ago had a Spring festival related to some fertility goddess. But I don't. I guess these days, with Wicca and all, there are some modern people that get all excited about fertility and such. But I don't.
So why does what some Pagans did affect me? Why is what some wiccan kooks do now supposed to have anythign to do with me? Are the gods of the Pagans so much stronger than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that they get to sort of co-opt what is done on a day they think is theirs?
I worship the great King above all Gods. When He and His worshippers show up, the little chthonic fertility daemons scatter into their caves and up to their hilltops and cower as we paint crosses on their eggs and laugh at the bunnies and smell the flowers and consecrate them to The God of the Living, who brought from the dead Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep.
This is so crazy. It's like the Jehovah's Witnesses. Somebody somewhere once used a cross shaped object as a symbol of something or other, so if I think Jesus died on a cross I'm a crypto Pagan? Somebody somewhere worshipped a fertility deity with eggs, so if I paint a cross on a colored egg my worship is corrupt?
The only way that makes sense is if God is sort of shy, retiring, and fragile and hides when he pagan gods come out. The God I worship casts horse and charioteer into the sea and turns death into life. I kinda think He can take care of himself and His worshippers.
pagan as in referring to Easter eggs. LOL!
When the whole idea of Easter is the Resurrection of Christ.
It's the secular world who has done the Easter Egg and Easter Rabbit thing.
BTW, Dye all your eggs red -- representing the blood of the Cross
White of the egg -- representing the purity of Jesus Christ on the Cross
Gold of the yolk representing the kingship of the Resurrected Christ who met and overcame Satan!
Had not heard this until a couple of years ago.