Easter coming up..

The bunnies, eggs etc have more to do with the start of spring then to do with the Christian holiday of easter. In early Christian days concessions had to be made so that the pagans could continue many of their old practices and yet still convert to Christianity. The celebration of Easter as a celebration of spring was one of these with roots going back to prechristian times, as is the christmas tree and many other symbols we associate with Christian holidays.

It is for the same reason that other holiday figures exist. Everyone wants a party! People had a find a way to justify celebrating the holiday without involving the christian faith. It is funny because Christianity is one of the only religions that has to be proven to everyone. Most of the other religions, hungry people accept it without a problem, probably because Christianity is the only faith where eternal life is a free gift because of Jesus' sacrifice and all the others you must achieve a certain amount of "stuff" to get to "paradise" or "peace" or whatever. People like to feel like they've worked for something. A free gift does not make sense to them so it seems unreal. Well I got off subject...sorry. I think people just need a reason to celebrate something.

Like most religious festivals it has become a holiday that people are accustomed to celebrating, but with varied traditions either borrowed from other festivals or developed over the centuries. People are now more concerned with the celebration as a holiday than the true meaning of the ocassion. Christmas Day is traditionally the day on which the birth of Christ is celebrated, so we may as well ask what has Santa Claus got to do with Christ's birth?

easter here in india is pretty much spent by people going to masses and all that.that sais i would like to know the tradition of the easter bunnies and whats the story behind it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter http://www.holidays.net/easter/

Easter didn't originate with Jesus Christ's resurrection but had been celebrated for many centuries by that time; Easter gets its name from an ancient fertiltiy goddess, Ishatar; Rabbits and eggs have nothing to do with Christ's resurrection, but are holdovers from ancient spring fertility s; pagans celebrated the supposed resurrection of their false gods in the springtime many centuries before Jesus Christ; Jesus did not die in Easter; and no i me and my family do not celebrate easter sunday nor eat easter eggs...

We do celebrate Easter through visiting to different religions and pray to church.I think foods have nothing to do with Easter and i guess people believe that dont eat mear or delicious foods during Easter because they want also to sacrifice like what Jesus did for our sins.

It's the rise of Jesus. I'm not all that religious either where as going to church all the time and all but for us Easter is a family day. A good excuse to get together and keep in touch and get fat off some very good food. We use to do the easter egg thing for fun when we were kids and we got lots of candy and my grandmother use to get us a present and wrapped it and hid it in the house and we would have a race to find them. I think that the chicks and bunnies are just symbolizing spring time. The eggs I know have to do with new life as I see someone else had stated here.

Easter is really fun.(in india) WE attend the church mass in early morning around 1:00 to 3:00!! then eat lots of eggs,sweets ,candys a real wait gainer ..!lol then party hard meet our people and celibrate. Mostly we celibrate the festival before its arrival cause of the church choir we rehearse a lot including all the fun. That too when you are young, You enjoy a lot when you are in company. have a nice day.

Easter is a Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus. The kids dye the eggs and a parent hids them for them to fine.The easter bunny brings the kids a basket full of easter candy and easter eggs. Then we have a nice easter supper.

i don't know about that because i am not celebrating and i don't why easter is celebrate but i want know why it is celebrate.

I don't celebrate easter in the religious sense. My kids get easter Eggs and baskets of goodies and so on, they usually take part in an Egg Hunt (This year they're going with friends) and generally have an amazing time. In light of them going to a friends place for easter my self and my partner are taking ourselves off for a day out. It'll be great to spend some time alone, just the two of us with Mother Nature. I can't WAIT!

In our house we not very religous we give the kids chocolate eggs and enjoy the public holiday is it a holidy there to. I don't make a special dinner or anything like that its like christams aswell we give presants and have a tree the big dinner but don't belive in god very much

i heard in Scandinavia, the girls have to wear a hat made with candles , then they make some cake and bring it for their parents, like 2pm when the cake gets done everybody likes that no clue about the rest of it

My family is not really catholic, but at easter we always eat chocolate and candies, I don't know what it has to do with Jesus either.

Well..since easter was originally a pagan holiday on the Vernal Equinox I already celebrated my holiday..a bit ago now actually, lol ^_^ I do something different every year. This year I wrote a song and did lots of spring cleaning..twas' fun. I have to wait for the candy part when the world catches up I guess. That's where the bunnies and eggs thing came from. The pagan holiday. In a way, the pagan holiday and the christian one have a bit in common. 'Cause it's symbolic..spring's the symbol of the new light, where winter's the symbol of darkness so once more than the spring's here the light has beaten the darkness -- like Christ's ressurection. Whoo..people are gonna hate me for sayin' that..

Easter are well celebrated here in my country. 3 years ago, my friends and I started to gather together during easter with our children. There will be a game of egg hunting for the kids. Afterwards, they will be given an hour to paint their eggs. The most colorful and unique design will be the winner. The award will be a month supply of real eggs. My friends and I needed to set aside some money just to buy those real eggs. I guess I need to tag along my bunny this year too. :)

my mom will make a easter dinner. my parents have a retirement home about 3 hrs away from where i am now. this will be our first easter at the newer house so its going to be nice having easter dinner there. i have a 9 yr old niece but she wont be with us.

which is it? does someone like to introduce it to me?

Maybe every place is different. Few people in China over the Easter !