I Believe in the Easter Bunny

If you were to ask me, ‘Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?", my answer would be a decisive "YES." Before I tell you about my belief in the Easter Bunny, let’s take a look at the Easter Bunny facade.

Easter is a historically unique time, filled with spring flowers, warm, perfumed air, flitting butterflies and festive celebrations. Little girls in white hats, white gloves and pretty pink dresses go around with baskets, hunting for brightly colored eggs, candies, chocolates and those little, stale Peeps, from last year, while little boys vested in bow ties and white shirts run around in a mad frenzy with egg and chocolate on their faces looking for any missed eggs.

But, all this outward scene does not really personify the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny, Esq. begins his crusade sometime in early March, sending out his message through mailers, newspapers, radio ads and television commercials. This is all in preparation for the Easter Bunnies to lay down the promise of golden eggs to entice the chocolate starved. It is the time when the Easter Bunny has the power to unite said starved and grow the cause of sugar worldwide. The Easter Bunny’s campaign is relentless and almost religious in it’s effort.

The Easter Bunny’s downfall, however, is that he hates proper nutrition; the real meaning behind Easter is that there is a campaign to drown out and overthrow the few fresh fruit and vegetable stands. The Easter Bunny’s portfolio is up to the ears in sugarcane and cocoa futures; naturally he feels very threatened by any other food source becoming popular. But, stemming from ancient and constant criticism of said diet, the Bunny was forced to bring in the egg as his symbol, for nutrition’s sake but also to disguise the cotton candy heart.

Not one to be oppressed by this nutritional baggage, the Easter Bunny had a very creative idea; he made a type of thick sugar-water, in a kaleidoscope of eye-pleasing colors, to coat the eggs. Therefore, the Easter Bunny was able to portray Easter as a healthy time, but also a time of color, life and the all-important human achievement of happiness.

Is there an Easter Bunny?

Well, if I have not convinced you already, then allow me to brush away the cotton candy. To me the Easter Bunny is a perfect symbol of religion without Christ, kind of like a mailer I received the other day from Bayside Church. It was an aesthetically pleasing, extravagant, creative and colorful piece of mail; it promised a huge egg hunt for my kids, a large map to their church and also talked about an upcoming seminar on ‘the five keys to a happy marriage’. However, nowhere on the mailer did it mention proper nutrition; slight promises of happiness and well being were abundant but Christ and His word was conspicuously absent. And, just as foolish as the idea of a bunny laying eggs, it promised a hope it could not deliver, for there is no hope without Christ. Just as the Easter Bunny and his stale Peeps lead to a bad diet, life without Christ and His word leads to destruction.

Now, Bayside Church is not the only fellowship doing this; there seems to be lot of bunnies hopping around. They all promise the same thing, health, happiness and nutrition, but they lack the substance of the Word of God which is the nutrition for holy living.

Every Easter opportunity knocks; in an attempt to be Number One Bunny, to gather as many stale parishioners into their paws as possible, the cuddly, little rabbits entice all they meet with aggressive advertising campaigns. Like Las Vegas casinos, thinking bigger is better, the bunnies build bigger and bigger worship centers to house their operations, throwing in more tantalizing celebrations; with the furry worship services and candy-coated messages, many are ensnared. Like leaders in a banana republic, the bunnies each attempt to cut each other off in order to get to the top, but, the one thing they do agree on is the Easter Bunny, which is false religion; because they hate Christ and his Word, when the bunnies do unite, they love to drink the blood of the saints, figuratively speaking. Thus, the story of the Easter Bunny is true; it truly is the embodiment of the father of lies.

Then, there is The Church, that looks at Easter and the time of Passover as the time of Christ’s death and resurrection, of his sacrifice for us, and finds joy in the forgiveness of sins and protection in Christ. Christ, being the chief shepherd, warns his Church against the lies of false religion. Christ and His words bring nutrition and health to believer’s life. Through Christ’s blood upon the cross we have access to the Father, by faith, and that not of ourselves, being the gift of God. Christ, who was the spotless lamb (and in this had no rivals), bore on himself the full penalty for our sins. We, as believers look forward to eternity with God; unlike the wicked and false religions that build their vast kingdoms here on Earth, we know our reward is in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus gathers His Church, the elect, as a hen gathers it’s chicks under it’s wings, unlike the Easter Bunny who cannot have chicks and attempts to legitimize it’s falsehoods by establishing a brood of hard-boiled eggs, portraying them as symbols of life. And, as on-going traditional lie tells us, the person with the most eggs wins.

- Steven

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