The Bunnyfication of Easter
The Reason for the Season
Walking down the seasonal aisles at your local grocery store in search of Easter basket fillers or decor is akin to a bunny farm with a pastel rainbow Instagram filter. Wherein we combine unpopular opinions of holiday avatars with solemn religious practices…
Serve your neighbors by recognizing their religious holidays. Even if you believe something else - faith in something greater than ourselves makes all of us better humans:
Christianity & Easter: Say Happy Easter! There is LITERALLY no other reason for Easter than Jesus’ death on the cross and resurrection.
Eggs make some sense - the parallel of the stone being rolled back from an empty tomb, but that being said, shouldn’t Easter eggs be empty?
(WE DO NOT CONDONE THIS! DO NOT try it on your kids and blame us!)
Was there a bunny-at-the-tomb story we missed? Yes, they’re a cute spring thing (why is that?) but why the combo with Easter? Then the carrots… because bunnies?
Judaism & Passover: Say Happy Passover! These two holidays are typically within a month of each other, based on the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
When the Jews had been in exile in Egypt for more than 200 years, God demanded the Pharaoh set them free. After a series of nine plagues on Egypt, the 10th plague was the death of the first born son. Jews marked their doorways with lamb’s blood and the Spirit passed over those homes, sparing Jewish families, thus the name “Passover”.
The pharaoh’s own son died in the plague and finally released the Jewish people to return to Israel.
We went down a rabbit hole (pun intended) with research on how Christians celebrate Passover, how Jews view Easter, and how Muslims consider Easter and Passover, but for brevity, decided on this:
There are obviously many other religions, but most do not recognize Easter or Passover as holidays.
Happy Easter or Passover,
Stephanie Sharp
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The New Yorker cartoonist was on the same track: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a27719
The Bunnyfication of Easter...