Easter Bunny Too Christian?

[alfreda89]

This is just too amusing... A school board in Rhode Island has decided that the Easter Bunny is too Christian for the schools, and intend to call him Peter Rabbit.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3018390&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

I find this especially amusing, because in college I needed the pagan rabbit sacred to the Mother Goddess to be a little more Christian. So I started doing Ukrainian Easter Eggs -- a thousand year old tradition that had Christian symbolism added to it, I should add -- to use as a nice transition between two faiths.

I still think it's a nice interface, although I imagine the whole business amuses the Deity Energy surrounding us all. (At least when we're not killing each other over differences in how we pray or cross ourselves...or dye eggs.)

Comments

I'm sorry --

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I wasn't clear there, apparently -- that's my point. The Easter bunny is about as non-Christian as you can get. So they're removing a pagan symbol, that Christians are fighting to keep, to substitute a veggie-swiping bad bunny!

This amuses me.

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

a thousand year old tradition that had Christian symbolism added to it

I think you meant it was around a thousand years before it had the Christian symbolism added to it. I've always been told the pysanky was a 3000 years old tradition ...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Eggzackly.

Not only am I writing opposite things today, but I am even recognizing people on the phone as other people whose names start with the same initial.

Life is never boring...

Was it a good anniversary? I was returning from SF and not sending out cards.