The bunny deserves to die
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Easter is coming soon and the stores are crammed with everything Easter; chocolate eggs, bunnies and multicolored peeps adorn the shelves of every grocery store.
Easter is more important than Christmas, and unlike Christmas, the crucifixion and resurrection most likely occurred in April, whereas his birth almost certainly did not happen in December.
Easter is perhaps the most sacred event in Christianity. Without the empty tomb, Christ was nothing more than a rogue preacher from Nazareth who taught some great lessons. Everything in Christianity hinges on the belief that Christ died and rose again on that first Easter morning.
There is so much I do not know or understand, but I choose to believe that there was an empty tomb. The historicity of Jesus is indisputable. He claimed to be the literal son of God, which leaves me with two choices, to believe or disbelieve his claim. I choose to believe it even though I don’t understand how it’s all possible or why he chose to condescend.
Easter is important to me and my faith tradition, so forgive me for resenting and believing the Easter bunny should die… and not be resurrected. The attempts to relate bunnies, eggs and unhealthy amounts of candy and chocolate to Easter are feeble.
Egg hunts are fun, eating chocolate is delicious, but they have absolutely nothing to do with Easter and in my mind are nothing more than consumerism and secularism hijacking another sacred holiday. I am not anti-fun but I am opposed to anti-Christ secularism that causes people to focus on the insignificant rather than the divine.
It’s been on my mind again that I need to rethink some of my traditions and practices. If my children grow up looking forward to Easter because they get candy and egg hunts then I have failed as a Christian father to teach them that the great joy and message of Easter is that mistakes can be undone, humans can be transformed, and that death is not the end.
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I agree with a lot of this. Our children definitely need to be taught the true meaning of Easter….and Christmas. And we need to FOCUS on that true meaning. I love Easter and Christmas and love to find and carry out ways that bring the real reason of the season to my family and home.
I also agree that these sacred holidays have been hijacked by those who only care about the almighty dollar. They are in for one thing…to capitalize. I think it is WAY overdone with ALL holidays.
But….I also don’t have a problem with having fun along with teaching the true meaning. FIRST AND FOREMOST teach them the truth…what it’s REALLY all about, do lots of activities that bring that alive…THEN the extra little fun SPRINGTIME activities. We all need to have some fun! I, personally, don’t have a problem with adding those things in as long as my family understands that that is all it is…fun.
I feel the same about Halloween! It’s fun! And that’s ALL it is!
“The bunny needs to die... and not be resurrected.” 😂
Overall I agree. I don’t understand the bunny, and the amount of chocolate is sickening. But egg hunts are a blast.