Is Easter Pagan?

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Worshipping something as an idol is showing reverance, time, love, affection to the object/thing.

So when I give time to look after my son with immense love and affection am I worshipping him? Or when I spend a lot of time and care crocheting a beautiful garment and then admiring it I am worshipping it? Your definition of worship sounds a bit off.

There are many cultures that use eggs in their celebrationss and worship of God as Vic so well explained in some of her posts and its logical that one might use things that God created ie eggs and dyes to make things.
I am reminded of the custom amongst some sephardi to decorate eggs at Passover(and shabbat or for special occasions).The process is indistinguishable from the way some people decorate their easter eggs.If you don't believe me check out this link they look very pretty

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/...ish/38253/

There have also been customs of decorating eggs for Purim.I wil paste from the following link http://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/241/Q3/
where a reader enquires about the origins of a custom of paining eggs on Lag B'omer and is worried it may be pagan.The reply went as follows



I asked your question to Rabbi Eliezar Demari of Jerusalem. (His parents came to Israel from Yemen in 1949.) Rabbi Demari said that in Yemen, the Jews painted eggs in honor of Purim. They sent these eggs to friends as mishloach manot gifts and ate them at the festive Purim meal.

The Jewish community in Yemen was isolated for centuries, and they can trace many of their customs back to the time of the First Temple, so it's clear that they didn't adopt this practice from any other culture.

Rabbi Demari also noted that it's conceivable that egg-painting was a custom among European Jews, and that they stopped doing so when it was adopted by other religions.

We see the same concept regarding a stone altar: Although Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made stone altars, the Torah later forbade making them because the pagans had begun making stone altars for idol worship. Thus, we see that a "kosher" custom gets spoiled when it becomes a pagan custom.

Isn't that interesting? So now we have a chicken and egg(pun intended ) situation.
Could it be that christians borrowed some of the eggy customs from jews?
It may be or it may not..not everyone uses eggs in the same way and they do give a lot of leeway in what can be done with them.Its just natural that people are going to use them in part of their respective celebrations.