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The answer could be a Yes or a No depending on an individual's religious beliefs. The Easter egg represents fertility and the history goes back before Christ's time. Chocolate eggs are a modern commercial invention to most likely please children, and maybe to remind them of the importance of Easter within many of the Christian religions. The answer could be a Yes or a No, depending on an individual's religious belief.
Here are a few quotes which may help:
"Since Bede the Venerable (De ratione temporum 1:5) the origin of the term for the feast of Christ's Resurrection has been popularly considered to be from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, a goddess of spring…the Old High German plural for dawn, eostarun; whence has come the German Ostern, and our English Easter" (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 5, p. 6).
"The fact that vernal festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian churches. The English term Easter is of pagan origin" (Albert Henry Newman, D.D., LL.D., A Manual of Church History, p. 299).
"On this greatest of Christian festivals, several survivals occur of ancient heathen ceremonies. To begin with, the name itself is not Christian but pagan. Ostara was the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring" (Ethel L. Urlin, Festival, Holy Days, and Saints Days, p. 73).
"Easter-the name Easter comes to us from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, for whom a spring festival was held annually, as it is from this pagan festival that some of our Easter customs have come" (Hazeltine, p. 53).
"In Babylonia…the goddess of spring was called Ishtar. She was identified with the planet Venus, which, because…[it] rises before the Sun…or sets after it…appears to love the light [this means Venus loves the sun-god]…In Phoenecia, she became Astarte; in Greece, Eostre [related to the Greek word Eos: "dawn"], and in Germany, Ostara [this comes from the German word Ost: "east," which is the direction of dawn]" (Englehart, p. 4).
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What else can I help you with?
What dose Easter celebrate?
Easter celebrates the resurection of jesus after he died on the cross. It also gives us an excuse to eat chocolate!!! XD
Does Christians eat chocolate eggs for Easter?
Chocolate is not reserved for only one group of people, anyone can eat chocolate on Easter. To answer your question though, yes, Christians eat chocolate for Easter.
Why do you eat chocolate on Easter?
You eat chocolate on Easter because there is so much candy around, it is almost impossible to not to eat it.
What day should you eat chocolate eggs?
Easter Sunday is the traditional day for chocolate Easter Eggs.
What do the french eat for their diner on Easter Monday?
chocolate
What do you get someone for Easter if they cant eat chocolate?
Flowers maybe?
What do French children have at Easter?
Usually French children have chocolate at Easter... Less importance in put on the Easter Bunny with the French, but the children still eat chocolate, lots and lots of it!
Why do chocolate Easter eggs have a cracked pattern on the outside?
To eat fish
Do Spanish eat chocolate eggs at Easter?
ldont think so
What happened on Easter Monday?
jimmy savill
Why are Easter egg made out of chocolate?
Maybe so the people can eat it
What do nonbelievers of God do with eggs on Easter?
The non-believers of God paint Easter eggs and eat them. They also eat chocolate and think that the Easter eggs on the doorsteps in the morning are from the Easter bunnies, which is actually from their parents.
