Comments on: Where Did The Easter Bunny Come From?

By: Dorkus

Dorkus — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:16:56 +0000

I like when articles include perfectly ordinary-sounding sentences that the uber-nerds can recognize as Simpsons quotes.

And Chief Hydrological Engineer IS a calling.

By: Ethan DuBois

Ethan DuBois — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:31:24 +0000

Although the Easter Bunny is celebrated in American culture, it’s not celebrated in the Christian tradition of Easter, so “eventually it became a part of Christian celebration” is somewhat incorrect. It’s true that many Christian families talk about the Easter Bunny, but it has nothing to do with the traditional story of Holy Weekend.

By: Ray Lilley

Ray Lilley — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:12:03 +0000

Born in the UK in 1950, no Bunnies then only Eggs. Migrated to Australia 1962, Guess what was introduced to the Easter Bunny. Must have been introduced by the early settlers. Has got me beat.

By: ReD

ReD — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:46:22 +0000

The question is; Why did the Easter bunny come years after Jesus has been nailed to a cross.

By: Detavious

Detavious — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:23:47 +0000

Why did they use a rabbit for easter ? does it help childern undrestand easter better or is this something that makes easter more fun for kids in todays time.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:23:26 +0000

OMG, some of these comments are killin’ me..

And that thing sitting by the foil wrapped Easter wabbit looks like a pissed off possum. Do not want.

By: Megaroo

Megaroo — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:41:00 +0000

SO, I never considered the EB laying eggs because a) the EB is either a male rabbit, or a very butch female and b) it is a mammal. even the female rabbit would not lay eggs…just assumed that he robbed a chicken coop. not really. I always pictured him with something like elfs…but sitting at cheerfull benches painting eggs.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:34:12 +0000

I also heard that the eggs became part of the tradition because in springtime (around Easter) tax collectors would come around for taxes. They would tax farmers on the number of animals they had. Eggs were counted as a chicken so farmers would color them (to make finding them later easier) and hide them so the tax collector did not see them. Then when the tax collector left they would send the children to find them.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:17:31 +0000

I thought Jesus was born from a giant egg that came out of giant rabbit butt, he didn’t want anybody to F**k with the Jesus, so he hid him in the bushes.Jesus turned out to be a black man, so most likely his parent was a Chocolate Bunny.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:00:31 +0000

The rabbit was the consort of Eostre, the pagan fertility goddess. I always just assumed that the egg and the bunny were 2 seperate symbols of fertility. I never thought the bunny laid eggs. Somehow that just made it all a bit too odd for me.