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Re: I wish people would think first!
 Originally Posted by PythonWallace
I've been thinking about getting a rabbit or two. Maybe I'll go check CL. I've been itching for some stew. 
Your bad 
 Originally Posted by AzureN1ght
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.
Hmm thats neat to know thanks 
 Originally Posted by frankykeno
I'm still trying to figure out how a rabbit poops out foil covered chocolate eggs and what exactly that has to do with pretty much anything! 
They eat some aluminum foil first then go to the bathroom  
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Re: I wish people would think first!
 Originally Posted by cassandra
Oooh, time to stock the freezer with Lourdes chow!
LMAO
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Re: I wish people would think first!
But Joe, bunnies don't lay eggs, chocolate or otherwise. See my granny told me years ago that Mr. Daddy Bunny meets Mrs. Mommy Bunny and they go into the cabbage patch and.....well she never got around to telling me the rest of it. Hmmm, this may explain why I have four kids. 
Anyways, there was no darn egg laying going on! I'm pretty sure of that!
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Re: I wish people would think first!
yet when you tell them that many of their "Christian" holidays originated as Pagan, they completely deny it.
LOL, that made me laugh to be honest, I was never taught that any of our holidays were purely with out pagan influence. Must just be us rebel Lutherans that teach that huh?
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Re: I wish people would think first!
 Originally Posted by cassandra
Oooh, time to stock the freezer with Lourdes chow!
 Originally Posted by joepythons
LMAO 
What, it's ok for snakes, but I should starve?
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Re: I wish people would think first!
Hey, when I was little I honestly thought rabbits made the same sound that the Cadbury bunny did....
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Re: I wish people would think first!
 Originally Posted by Brimstone111888
Ding Ding Ding! There were about 12--15 different pagan religions all with the same characteristics as Christianity. Christianity merely copied other religions with the holidays.
Youtube the word Zietgiest.
I watched the video. It's very interesting how so many religions/belifs have so much in common, yet so many people willingly remain ignorant about it.
Amanda 
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Re: I wish people would think first!
 Originally Posted by joepythons
I didn't have a chimney growing up either, so my parents told me he used the front door. LOL
Also, one time I caught my dad putting presents under the tree wearing a santa suit, and I ran up to him and started talking to him. Then I noticed he had the same glasses as my dad, and he told me that they shop at the same place. Then I asked why he had the same ring as my dad (it was a class ring), and he told me they went to the same school. She I told all of my friends that my dad went to school with santa.
Amanda 
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