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Offline KKOB

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2018, 14:40:25 PM »
What exactly have chocolate eggs to do with Christianity?



Exactly the same as Christmas has to do with the alleged birth of a child called Jesus.



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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2018, 15:29:12 PM »
I think it’s a fertility thing, like rabbits!!

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2018, 16:44:58 PM »
I must have ducked out of the biology lesson when they explained about rabbits laying chocolate eggs.  ;)

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2018, 05:29:28 AM »
Eggs and rabbits (hares originaly) are all pre christian pagan fertility symbols....

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2018, 08:08:42 AM »
Eggs and rabbits (hares originaly) are all pre christian pagan fertility symbols....

Only if you were, or are still in, the greetings card business.

http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/589714.html

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2018, 12:18:18 PM »
Pretty much punches a great hole through the "pagan" element, doesn't it?

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Re: Will you be buying Gesture Eggs this year ?
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2018, 13:37:06 PM »
The word Easter comes from the name Eostre, the Teutonic Goddess of Spring and fertility. 
Eggs, of course represent fertility, and one of the claims to fame of rabbits is ‘to breed like rabbits’.
I doubt Jesus, on rising from the dead on Easter Sunday commanded his followers to eat chocolate eggs, or indeed tell their children a bunny brought them!




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