I wish people would think first!

[Elvyra's Keeper]

If you want to be super-technical, Christians took over a pagan holiday. Ostara (or Eostre) (I think I'm spelling her name right) is a Norse fertility/Spring goddess whose symbols were the hare and the egg...it's a Spring thing. However, most modern people don't know anything about her and go with the Christian take-over meaning, even though the original pagan symbols still pervade the holiday. So...bunnies do have to do with the original celebration. But have nothing to do with the Christian celebration, which instead focuses on the death/resurrection of Christ.

When Christians were converting people, we liked to take over their traditional holidays and sort of morph them--it made conversion easier.

What irritates me about this, is how many Christians look down on Pagans as being "Devil Worshipers" and evil-doers, yet when you tell them that many of their "Christian" holidays originated as Pagan, they completely deny it.