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Originally posted by GT40FIED
Seriously...just like all other christian practices it's probably loosely rooted in paganism.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. ._._. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility
not all christians celebrate them.