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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Christianity relabels pagan symbols to "make them Christian". A chocolate cross I can understand but a chocolate egg from a rabbit? Then there is the strange coincidence between Christs resurrection and the moon cycles.
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Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate. I'll take chocolate in any shape.
The bunny and the egg are funny. Peter Cottontail is cute. He's hopping down the bunny trail ... as we speak.
Of course they are just symbols of the new and fresh fecundity of Spring. Nature is gettin' busy out there.
And the moon cycles? I guess Jesus had to wait til the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the spring equinox, to rise from the dead.
When you get down to it, it's all pretty funny, and crazy. We've got birth and death date's for all kinds of people back then. But the most important person in the world, so claimed, nada. We're left guessing.
So Constantine stepped up. He was a converted sun god worshiper, allegedly. True or not, the proof is in the pudding. He made the birth of Christ when the sun is "born again" on the 25th of Dec. (that was when the days began to get longer back then, like our 21st today).
And well okay. While we're at it. Let's make the death and resurrection of Jesus based upon the sun, and the moon. Seems like something a sun god worshiper would do.
But if we puritans reject those pagan holidays, then we're gonna have ta reject the days of the week too. They were also determined by Constantine. Like, "Sun"day, and, "Moon"day, and, "Saturn"day, so forth and so on ; with Norse embellishments along the way ; Woden's day, for Wednesday, and Frigg's day - Venus - for Friday. And of course, "Thors"day ; all Norse gods.
All that said, Happy Easter one and all, even if you ignore it, and perchance enjoy a quiet day just 'Practicing the Presence.'
Like me.