Every easter there are the obligatory pictures of the easter bunny coloring easter eggs, but nobody makes any pictures of jesus coloring easter eggs. Or jesus whipping the easter bunny's ass for messing with his holiday.

I don't think they had bunnies in Nazareth. :) Hey, does anyone know the origin of the Easter bunny?

Its a remnant of the old, pagan spring. You know, may-poles and all that. It's all been watered down over all the years of Christian Oppression, but you can still get the general idea... You know what bunnies love to do!

So in fact it is Jesus messing with the Easter Bunnies holiday.

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Anton The Easter bunny actually has it's origins in pagan traditions. The name Easter is derived from the goddess Eostre, (Eastara, or Ostara depending on region) & her companion (familiar?)& chief symbol was the hare. I wrote up a fairly thorough description of the origins of the pagan holiday if you'd care to research it further at the link provided.

Eggs and bunnies are both fertility symbols. It's a spring thing. Go forth and multiply. Some people will tell you the egg represents resurection, but that's just a convenient coincidence.

GROINGRINDER, don't give Legume any ideas. He gets enough on his own.

How about a visit from the ether bunny? Ohhh...feeling sleepy now.... :)

heh.. I'm in the process of modelling one, - and this guys is surely an obnoxious one too. :) If any of you're ever over in the amapi forum, you'll see...

Do any of you remember Harvey, it was a classic James Stewert movie?

Cool bunny britmccary. Thanks for the link cooler I like to read about that kind of stuff. I agree with you Little Dragon the satirical jesus stuff is kinda like a trademark. I can see your point too hogwarden. Its funny how the church went and tried to replace all the fun holidays with serious religious ones.

Oh, here's another one what about the easter bunny rising from the dead.

OLD JOKE ALERT: 3 guys die and appear at the pearly gates before St. Peter. St. Peter says to them "To gain admittence to Heaven, you must tell me the true meaning of easter." The first guy says "Easter is about chocolate eggs and bunny rabbits." St. Peter says "Nope, sorry." Second guy says "Easter is about being with your family and celebrating the coming of spring." St. Peter says "Nope, sorry." Third guy says "Well, Easter is about Jesus dying on the cross." "Yes, go on" says St. Peter "And three days later he rose from the dead and walked out of his tomb." "Very good, please continue" says St. Peter. The third guys looks thoughtful for a moment and says "Umm... And if he sees his own shadow there'll be six more weeks of winter!" Actually of course, christianity wouldn't really exist had it not been for all the other belief systems they co-opted. In fact, all of the central tennets of christianity, including the devine saviour made mortal, the last supper and subsequent death, ressurection and ascention, as well as the communion, were taken directly from the worship of Mithra which appeared in what is now Iraq some 3 thousand years ago. Christmas itself was The Fesival of Mithra until co-opted by christianity into the birth of Christ after the collapse of Rome. An interesting subject. Plenty of info out there for those willing to learn. :-)

Cool joke sidechain and an informative post. Thanks.

easter is an adaptation of the word "Ishtar" - "Easter" is NOT Jesus' holiday, His Holidays are Jewish, and this one would be Yom HaBikkurim. Ben MessianicArt.com

Ok TalmidBen now you've got me all confused. I always thought easter was celebrated because Jesus rose from the dead after he was crucified. At least that's what the nuns beat into me in catholic school.

GG, Yes, I know, not many folks know that Yom HaBikkurim was the actual day he rose, instead of an adapted pagan festival. Other little known facts: Messiah was NOT born on Christmas, but on Sukkot. He was NOT crucified on 'Good Friday', but on Passover (the day was not Friday either), He will return on Rosh HaShannah, judge the world on Yom Kippur, and install the Millennium Reigh on Sukkot. All of these are Jewish festivals, which are major points in God's Plan. What's more is that I'm not making any of this up, it's all there in the Bible, you just have to look for it. God bless, Ben MessianicArt.com