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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 171642" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>If you're refering to <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?friend=/c/a/2007/03/02/BAGHQOE71I1.DTL" target="_blank">this</a>, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Apparently it took five years before anyone noticed. A lot of things that people in the US have come to associate with "traditional religion" are anything but traditional.</p><p><em>"It's really not a big deal," said Lawrence Cunningham, University of Notre Dame theology professor. "I don't see any intrinsic value to the rabbit to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. </em></p><p><em>"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."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 171642, member: 4805"] If you're refering to [URL="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?friend=/c/a/2007/03/02/BAGHQOE71I1.DTL"]this[/URL], it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Apparently it took five years before anyone noticed. A lot of things that people in the US have come to associate with "traditional religion" are anything but traditional. [I]"It's really not a big deal," said Lawrence Cunningham, University of Notre Dame theology professor. "I don't see any intrinsic value to the rabbit to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. [/I] [I]"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."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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