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Anonymous wrote:Unlike belief in god, there is no reward or punishment associated with belief or disbelief in the easter bunny.

But how do you know this to be true?

There is Church doctrine on reward and punishment relating to belief in God. There is no doctrine associated with the Easter bunny -- only baskets filled with goodies. The easter bunny is a one day a year thing during childhood. In contrast, God lasts a lifetime and beyond.

Anonymous wrote:Unlike belief in god, there is no reward or punishment associated with belief or disbelief in the easter bunny.

But how do you know this to be true?

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Do you really believe that believing in a God and believing in the Easter Bunny are equivalent?

Believing is believing, isn't it? Why would the belief itself be different? Now if you are asking is God and the Easter Bunny equivalent, then the answer is obviously no. But that doesn't make believing different.

Correct -- God rules the universe and sent his son Jesus to die for our sins and then rise from the dead as God's way of offering us eternal life. If we choose not to believe in him or not to accept the story of his son's necessary sacrifice, then we do not get eternal life.

The Easter Bunny just brings chocolate to small children on the day that we celebrate the son of god rising from the dead. So there is a connection, although it's very tenuous and not at all equivalent. The main thing that the two stories have in common is that both God and the Easter bunny are invisible. Children never see the easter bunny bring baskets, but they do get the chocolates. Grown-ups never see god, but they can often feel his presence and if they believe in him, they will live forever with him in heaven. If not, they will go to hell forever.

As for the Easter bunny - No sane adults believe in him and for children, he often continues coming even after they stop believing in him. Unlike belief in god, there is no reward or punishment associated with belief or disbelief in the easter bunny.

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Do you really believe that believing in a God and believing in the Easter Bunny are equivalent?

Believing is believing, isn't it? Why would the belief itself be different? Now if you are asking is God and the Easter Bunny equivalent, then the answer is obviously no. But that doesn't make believing different.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

They are all things that you can't see that little children are taught to believe in. God is the only one who is a religious figure that people are expected to believe in once they grow up.

Do you really believe that believing in a God and believing in the Easter Bunny are equivalent? I think you are just trying to trivialize belief in God.

I'm not the PP, but I'm the one who added the Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy post, which is absolutely "trying to trivialize belief in God". As Stephen Hawking asserted, "Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

as well as for those who can't self-manage

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

They are all things that you can't see that little children are taught to believe in. God is the only one who is a religious figure that people are expected to believe in once they grow up.

Do you really believe that believing in a God and believing in the Easter Bunny are equivalent? I think you are just trying to trivialize belief in God.

I'm not the PP, but I'm the one who added the Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy post, which is absolutely "trying to trivialize belief in God". As Stephen Hawking asserted, "Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

They are all things that you can't see that little children are taught to believe in. God is the only one who is a religious figure that people are expected to believe in once they grow up.

Do you really believe that believing in a God and believing in the Easter Bunny are equivalent? I think you are just trying to trivialize belief in God.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

God is also an invention of man. No scriptures were ever written by the hand of God. God's stories are just that, stories created by mankind. You may claim they were written by humans through the divine power of god but there are many similar stories about other deities, gods, and supreme beings. All also created by mankind. To think or believe this one story is somehow special and true is exactly what it is, a leap of faith, based on the same logic as the tooth fairy, easter bunny, and santa claus being true.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

They are all things that you can't see that little children are taught to believe in. God is the only one who is a religious figure that people are expected to believe in once they grow up.

Maybe the Deists got it right.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The Easter bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus are inventions of man, not creations of God. I know of no religious theology that embraced them. Why you would introduce them into the conversation is beyond me.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

PP,

According to this link, Satan is responsible for corrupting the meaning of Easter through the Easter Bunny.

http://www.realbiblestories.com/easter-bunny-brings-satans-communion-real-true-story-of-easter/

Chocolate bunnies and colored eggs. Satan’s Communion, every Easter Sunday! Will you and your children be participating in demonic rituals celebrating Molech and Baal, or will you turn your eyes to God this year?

more on the subject

Then why are you worshiping rabbits — an unclean animal, consumption of which is abomination to God — and hunting for colored eggs on the celebration of His Resurrection?

Catholics, that’s why!

Huh?

Yes, Catholics. The inheritors of the Babylonian religion, who have perverted every aspect of Christianity with the ways of Nimrod and Semiramis (Ishtar)!

Satan has found a very clever way of perverting Christianity . . . He used the Catholic cult to inject his own rituals — those directed at any number of false gods, and even a false Savior — into Christian worship! Think about it . . . Whenever you idolize the Easter bunny, or trade eggs, or even fast at Lent, you are worshipping Satan!

I'd suggest putting away the chocolate and perhaps saving it for your Memorial Day cookout.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

The easter bunny and the tooth fairy are imaginary characters in stories for children. Satan is a real being in a true story from God, written in his holy book.

Big difference.

Yes, he only does good works. Sometimes he gets his friend, the Tooth Fairy, to help out.

I heard the Easter Bunny can be quite mischievous, though. You have to watch out for him. And Satan, of course.

will carry out his plan FOR you.