Tuesday, April 17, 2007
The World We Live In - Bunnies and Eggs
Perhaps this should be a non-issue after all...
Jim Herron Zamora writes in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"The bunny is a fertility symbol with no religious connection to Easter," added Cunningham who was the Christianity editor for the in the HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion. "The egg, which was popularized in Greece, Russia and Eastern Europe in connection with Easter, does not have a religious connection to Easter. By taking away the term 'Easter,' these symbols to some extent return to their pre-Christian roots as symbols of spring fertility."
