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I was on the floor laughing over the new South Park episode this week that asked the challenging question: what do bunnies have to do with Easter. They of course made light of the subject, and for entertainment purposes didn’t probe too deeply into the matter. But, it’s a valid question that is rarely if ever even asked. Bunnies, eggs, and chicks just pop up every springtime, and everyone just says “Oh it’s Easter again”. But why doesn’t anyone ever publically say “Wait a minute. What do these symbolize”? It’s a logical question for there is such a large disconnect between the resurrection of Jesus and the symbols of the holiday. The Reverand Alexander Hyslop provides a basis for understanding what one has to do with the other in his “Two Babylons”. The bunny and eggs are symbols of feritility. There annual appearance every spring pre-dates Christ to the ancient pagan festival of Eoster.

Eoster was the goddess of fertility to the ancient Babylonians; also known as Ishtar and Astoreth (the false goddess Solomon bowed down to in the Old Testatment). Symbols of fertility surround her ceremonial practices to which the bunny and egg find there place every spring since ancient Babylonian times.

So what does this have to do with Jesus? Nothing. The bunnies and eggs are residual effects of paganism conquering Christianity. Many believe the opposite happened, when in fact the idea of god incarnating into a man and being worshiped is the same pagan religion that Moses was battling in his time. It has endured 5 millenium and celebrated today.

This video explains how the biblical account of Jesus’ resurrection was a parable, and is not to be taken literally. That he was not god-incarnate physically rising from the dead to prove his divinity. The Gospels don’t support this notion that Jeus is God, or the Trinity, or the physical resurrection. In fact worshipping anything but the one true invisible God is exactly what Jesus and Moses came to warn the people against. Jesus said “Why do you call me good? There is noone good but God alone” (Mark 10:18). Yet we find today the ancient Babylonian religion of worshipping pagan gods and symbols enduring.

If one looks closely at the resurrection parable it is easy to find the truth. At the end of Luke 24 after the “resurrection” Jesus is given some fish and eats it saying “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you” (verse 44). See, Jesus wasn’t there when he said this. His resurrection is a parable which is explained in detail is this youtube video. Bunnies and god-incarnated men are actually closely related and celebrated at Eoster, but neither have anything to do with the truth of the Gospels or the true teachings of Jesus.