Why do Christians celebrate easter with fancy hats, chocolate bunnies and egg symbols?
You are lumping all Christians into one category. That is unfair! At our church we do not celebrate Easter with fancy hats, chocolate bunnies, nor do we have an Easter egg hunt for our children. We celebrate the resurrection of Christ at Easter. We celebrate Christmas as the birth of our Savior, even though we don’t know exactly the day he was born. By the way, it doesn’t matter if you have an old faded dress, or a new modern one, or have a hat on your head, or not. Celebrating and worshiping The Lord comes from the heart, and not what you have on your body. If a person can afford nice clothes, then they should be able to wear them without condemnation of others. Likewise, if a person can’t afford nice clothes to wear to church; then we don’t need to look down on them either. I think picking little things out like that is just an excuse to keep from going to church. If you don’t like that church, then by all means find another. Just don’t pick on the folks who by choice decided to go t
YES, PAGAN ORIGINS Did you know that the very name “Easter,” is of pagan origin? Says an early eighteenth-century Catholic scholar, a Benedictine monk, in a work that may well be said to have been the forerunner of the modern Bible dictionary: “Easter is a word of Saxon origin; and imports a goddess of the Saxons, or rather, of the East, Estera, in honor of whom sacrifices being annually offered about the passover time of the year (spring), the name became attached by association of ideas to the Christian festival of the resurrection which happened at the time of passover; hence we say Easter-Day or Easter Sunday, but very improperly; as we by no means refer to the festival then kept to the goddess of the ancient Saxons.”2 To the same effect testify other authorities, from the eighth-century English historian Bede to the lastest encyclopedias. Concerning the use of hot cross buns at Easter time we are told: “Like the Greeks, the Romans ate bread marked with a cross . . . at public sacr
Christians don’t do that. The secular world does that in order to diminish the true meaning of the season, the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, who died for our sins, was buried, and then the morning of the third day, resurrected to prove once and for all time that Jesus truly IS God manifest in flesh as the Son of God. Like it or not, that IS the answer. Probably not what you want, but if you want honesty, that’s it.
