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To: Kaslin

This doesn’t bother me. Bunnies and egg hunts have nothing to do with the resurrection of Christ anyway. Never have understood all that hubbub.


5 posted on 03/21/2013 11:56:40 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: al_c

It’s a few days off...now called Spring recess.


7 posted on 03/21/2013 12:02:52 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: al_c; Mrs. Don-o
This doesn’t bother me. Bunnies and egg hunts have nothing to do with the resurrection of Christ anyway. Never have understood all that hubbub.

Proves little else other than to show how easy it is for weird practices to meld together to become religions.

8 posted on 03/21/2013 12:03:01 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: al_c

Actually, the Orthodox Church uses red-dyed eggs on Pascha (Easter). They come out at the end of the Pascha service. For one thing, it’s to break the fast (no eggs throughout Lent). For another, it’s connected to an old tradition of Mary Magdalene using an egg to illustrate the resurrection to Tiberius Caesar. The legend says that the egg she used for this turned blood red in her hand.

I doubt that there’s any connection between this and Easter Eggs in the West, but it’s an odd coincidence.


27 posted on 03/21/2013 2:57:07 PM PDT by Hilda
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