In an attempt to explain the nonexplainable, religion was created. The God/man spiritual connection was taken out of the intangible ethos and was plunked down to earth in the form of ritual. I love rituals. Family holiday meals, the care with which I prepare my giant colorful salad everyday, the hot steaming cup of coffee or tea after my first round of daily supplements, high school graduation pomp and circumstance…all of these make me feel more secure, more rooted. These are familiar, repeated rituals that have a positive place in my life.
Then…there are the Easter bunnies, dyed eggs, and candy in the shape of bunnies and eggs. Fake grass in a brightly colored plastic basket house these symbols at times carried by a person in a giant bunny suit. I don’t see any possible connection to the basic Christian tenet of Christ’s resurrection. Christianity has all sorts of rituals to remember and outwardly express what must be believed to belong to the ‘faithful.’ So where did the whole bunny and egg thing come from? Surely didn’t originate when Jesus appeared on the scene.
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