Since when did an egg hunt have anything to do with Easter in the first place?
Now I’m confused - does the author want egg hunts with Easter or not? The point is a bit muddled.
The Resurrection of our Lord is real reason that has to do with Easter.
Exactly! To complain about an egg hunt is insane!!!! We have huge issues going on in this country and this is what they have resorted too. Lord, I hope we begin prioritizing again. The difference between Christmas and Easter is that Christmas is a Federal Holiday....Easter is NOT!!!!
Censoring the religous references in our holidays gives atheists and non religous people a chance to party and shop and buy stuff. Gotta feel for atheists....no holidays
But when they talk about a “Spring Egg Rolls” it just makes we want to order Chinese
It is a fun way to express the concept of “New Life” to children. To engage and teach children, you need to pass on traditions and ceremonies which have an element of excitement and fun to encourage the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope and Love.
To not use imagination-—that which is so unique to man—would be inhumane and dull and discourage the interest of children who are the most creative and imaginative. Traditions are essential in passing on culture-—it is why Marxists are trying to destroy all Christian traditions to create “faith” in the State.
As long as it aims toward the truth and belief in God and his miracles, I see no harm in using God’s Design in Nature to understand reality and Truth. Any thing can be profane, though, and public schools are just that, (and unconstitutional) and I would hate to have them “interpret” anything for my kids-—it wouldn’t happen. I don’t allow just “any” stranger to form worldview in my children (includes TV).
Who cares if the idea is a “pagan” one——all Western ideas have an element of paganism, since the Greeks were such great philosophers and used Reason—that which God gave man to distinguish us from the beast.
As the early Fathers of the Church stated.....God reveals his Truth to all in Nature. We can recognize the truth if we look for it.
People uniquely use symbols all the time since the beginning of history......it makes learning easier and more fun and understandable......eggs are such a symbol.
Good point; let them have their pagan ritual, so Christian children realize that the Easter Bunny was simply to promote the idea that Christianity (and the Resurrection) was merely a rip-off fairy tale founded in ancient paganism.
My children grew up believing in Santa Claus because he was a real flesh-and-blood saint of the Church; we never included the “Easter Bunny” in our celebration of Easter.
“Since when did an egg hunt have anything to do with Easter in the first place?”
A most excellent question, friend!! The root word from which Easter has been derived is the name of the old Teutonic goddess of spring, and pagan symbols of fertility rites and festivals i.e., eggs, newly hatched chickens, baby rabbits, and the like, unfortunately have been conflated with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, probably well intended to physically symbolize the marvel of the creation of new life while necessarily failing to parallel the Divine Miracle.
Colored eggs, cute baby chicks and bunnies and candy galore are all very nice and colorful, but only diffuse and interfere with a devout and joyful celebration of Christ’s victory over Death and Satan.
And I was as guilty as anyone of such confusion and distraction when my children were very young.