I never really liked easter egg hunts for that same reason. My family would bury them in flower pots, put them in exahaust pipes, and shove them in thick topiaries so it was always a hard hunt.
I’ve noticed some of the later comics have a different art style, like it suddenly changes at some point. You can go through the comics with random and, with enough observation, point out which art style they are.
That makes me wonder : Jewish do celebrate Passover at the same time. Does that mean that the easter bunny is a Christian freak that just forgot his ancestors (pagan hares from germany if you want to know) ? Or maybe it’s the Christians that just want to make everything kitsch ?
Same reason Christmas is in late December, so they could co-opt the winter solstice festivals. And try asking a Christian why Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox. And what it has to do with bunnies and eggs and chicks, if it’s not co-opting fertility festivals.
Ah, Easter egg hunts…. good times. There was always at least one hidden on my grandpa. Not sure how that tradition got started, but he was a patient man. Lol.
Well Rhea, here’s a Christian with an answer: Easter is the fulfillment of the Jewish Passover. Jesus was the ultimate passover lamb, thus once and for
all paying for sin. He was crucified during Passover. The rest of the modern celebration like eggs and bunnies is not Christian at all, just like the Coca Cola Santa Claus has nothing to do with the real Saint Nicolaus.
At my church we call Easter, Resurrection Sunday in place of Easter.. because Easter is just modern way to say Ishtar. But rabbits kinda were her thing, because there isn’t a lot of animals more productive than bunnies!
I’m afraid not. The name Easter actually comes from a different fertility goddess, Ēostre, a goddess in Germanic paganism, not Ishtar, who is Babylonian.
Note that in most of the non-Germanic languages, the name is some derivative of Pascha, derived from the Hebrew word for Passover.
When I was about 12, my family and I went next door for a kiddie Easter Egg hunt in this HUGE backyard; about four times as big as ours. This yard had trees, bushes, you name it. It was glorious.
It also had a little refrigerator next to the back door. I asked my step-dad if I could open it and check inside for eggs. He said no because “they wouldn’t hide them in there”.
About half-way through our little hunt, the host started explaining what was going to happen with the Easter eggs because, there was no candy inside. They were just empty, plastic eggs. But each color had a meaning – it was worth money. Green was the most common. It was worth one dollar each. Purple was less common at two dollars. Orange more so at five dollars. Pink at 10. There was only one red one, which was worth a whopping 25 dollars.
So we had hunted for about another 10 minutes and no one had found the red Easter egg. We were about to give up and go inside when we saw the kid next to us open the fridge and pull out a red egg.
I never really liked easter egg hunts for that same reason. My family would bury them in flower pots, put them in exahaust pipes, and shove them in thick topiaries so it was always a hard hunt.
I’ve noticed some of the later comics have a different art style, like it suddenly changes at some point. You can go through the comics with random and, with enough observation, point out which art style they are.
You haven’t read any comics before, have you?
I always though it should hav been a easter chicken
Love it. The first panel made me laugh, then the last line just drove it home. Great stuff as always.
Srsly? what mall rent-a-Santa would turn down a CC#?
…well unless the kid forgot the card verification code.
That makes me wonder : Jewish do celebrate Passover at the same time. Does that mean that the easter bunny is a Christian freak that just forgot his ancestors (pagan hares from germany if you want to know) ? Or maybe it’s the Christians that just want to make everything kitsch ?
Same reason Christmas is in late December, so they could co-opt the winter solstice festivals. And try asking a Christian why Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox. And what it has to do with bunnies and eggs and chicks, if it’s not co-opting fertility festivals.
Wait… So the whole reason there’s an Easter Bunny is because rabbits are so well-known for their prodigious mating habits?
Ah, Easter egg hunts…. good times. There was always at least one hidden on my grandpa. Not sure how that tradition got started, but he was a patient man. Lol.
I never got why anyone would bother to hunt real eggs on Easter, where’s the fun in that? Candy is where its at
Well Rhea, here’s a Christian with an answer: Easter is the fulfillment of the Jewish Passover. Jesus was the ultimate passover lamb, thus once and for
all paying for sin. He was crucified during Passover. The rest of the modern celebration like eggs and bunnies is not Christian at all, just like the Coca Cola Santa Claus has nothing to do with the real Saint Nicolaus.
Good old Ishtar goddess of fertility.
At my church we call Easter, Resurrection Sunday in place of Easter.. because Easter is just modern way to say Ishtar. But rabbits kinda were her thing, because there isn’t a lot of animals more productive than bunnies!
I’m afraid not. The name Easter actually comes from a different fertility goddess, Ēostre, a goddess in Germanic paganism, not Ishtar, who is Babylonian.
Note that in most of the non-Germanic languages, the name is some derivative of Pascha, derived from the Hebrew word for Passover.
When I was about 12, my family and I went next door for a kiddie Easter Egg hunt in this HUGE backyard; about four times as big as ours. This yard had trees, bushes, you name it. It was glorious.
It also had a little refrigerator next to the back door. I asked my step-dad if I could open it and check inside for eggs. He said no because “they wouldn’t hide them in there”.
About half-way through our little hunt, the host started explaining what was going to happen with the Easter eggs because, there was no candy inside. They were just empty, plastic eggs. But each color had a meaning – it was worth money. Green was the most common. It was worth one dollar each. Purple was less common at two dollars. Orange more so at five dollars. Pink at 10. There was only one red one, which was worth a whopping 25 dollars.
So we had hunted for about another 10 minutes and no one had found the red Easter egg. We were about to give up and go inside when we saw the kid next to us open the fridge and pull out a red egg.
sometimes its u just gotta do u even if that means deifying ur parents ;o
BWA-HA-HA!