Easter is the holiest Christian festival, celebrating as it does the resurrection of Christ, but oddly enough cute bunnies and chocolate eggs have become its most recognized modern-day symbols.
The roots of the holiest day in the Christian calendar appear to lie in a pagan spring festival that celebrated the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility, known as Eostre or Eastre.
Easter Traditions Stem from Paganism
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Aaron Fulkerson 