Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs.?

All of your major christan holidays are actually based on pagan ones. If Easter is to celebrate the death resurectin of Christ, why does the date change? If Christmas is to celebrate his birth, why have scientists proven that Christ was born in the spring and not on Dec 25th? The eggs are a symbol of furtility and pagan rituals celebrated the furtility of the land and of woman in the spring.

He borrows them from The Spring Chicken who wishes to remain incognito.

Look up the story of Eostre. It's an old pagan tradition. The germanic spring goddess transformed a half-frozen bird into a hare so it could flee the comming winter. The next year, the hare returned and laid colorful eggs, to thank the goddess.

His wife is a chicken and he don't want no babies yet so he decided to paint them and have them passed off as orfans, little do they know that the human race is full of canniballs...

He's just the delivery guy! Chickens do the egg laying but they would be hard pressed to get them all passed out. It's funny how traditions evolve, and how holidays come to be known for various things. It's really hard to connect the real meaning of Easter - a Christian Holy Day marking the Ressurection - with cute little chicks and bunnies and eggs and candy. But in my world, both can peacefully co-exist. A fun family gathering and springtime celebration, and then a spiritual Sunday with Church, prayer, and reverence.

I know WTF!? I always wondered that when I saw the Cadbury commercials.

There was NO myth about any pagan goddess called Eostre until someone invented it in the last century. NOTHING is known about her bar ONE mention that the month of April, Eostremonath in Anglo-Saxon, might be named after her, but she is otherwise completely unknown and does not appear in any Anglo Saxon literature, as you might have expected. The Easter Bunny is actually based on a German story of the Easter Hare. The European hare raises its young above ground (unlike the rabbit) in nests in the open fields, These nests (or forms) bear some resemblance to birds nests . So probably someone once saw a nest of young hares and joked "I see the hare's eggs have hatched" and a folk myth/joke/fable was born.

The Easter Bunny is a parable. It's a retelling of the story of Christ. You see, the Easter Bunny shows up on Easter, like Christ... bringing painted eggs which he hides for the children... and Christ... well... I got nothing.