If Easter is a religous holiday, than where did the easter bunny come from?

Easter represents the resurrection of Jesus Christ after being crucified on the cross. Man has changed spiritual holidays and made them worldly for his own pleasure...i.e. christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ, but man turned it into celebrating santa claus frosty the snow man...

The way I heard it, rabbits start breeding and appearing in increasing numbers in Europe around this time of year. Because the rabbit is so fertile, it became a sort of symbol of spring, and by analogy, to the Resurrection. Don't take the bunny too seriously.

Yes Easter is a religious holiday. The Easter bunny came from the same place as Santa Claus. It goes way back to pagans. Very strange mixing of paganism and religion.

Because Easter is in Springtime in most of the world (but autumn where I live) it became associated with the new life of spring-new flowers, new lambs, new eggs, new bunnies etc.and the bunnies became popular and then turned into chocolate. The last apart is not true but he lo in the commercialization of the holiday.

It started in the United States during the 18th century. Read about it at the link below.

You're a bit late on asking this oh so original and intelligent question.

Well,there is more to Easter than celebrating the resurrection of Christ. Men have taken the Biblical significance of the occasion and added symbols and customs that originate from ancient peoples who served false gods. For example, the rabbit. “Ancient pagans used the rabbit as a symbol of the abundant new life of the spring season. . . . The first record of the bunny as an Easter symbol is found in Germany about 1572,” says The Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home. Likewise, the Easter-time use of hot cross buns, brightly colored eggs, or chocolate bells has its roots in pagan religion. And, incredibly, the very name Easter (used in some languages) relates to a pagan deity. The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible states that Easter was “originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre. As early as the 8th century the name was transferred by the Anglo-Saxons to the Christian festival designed to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.” This pagan ancestry is widely recognized and well documented. The question is, Does it matter? Since Easter purports to honor Christ, does God overlook the fact that its trappings, even the name itself, are linked to the worship of other gods?

The name "Easter" came from the pagan holiday celebrated on the Spring Equinox, Eostre. German pagans named the Spring Equinox after Ostara, their goddess of spring, fertility, and rebirth. Ostara's magical companion was a rabbit who accompanied her as she brought new life to dying plants and flowers by hiding the eggs in the fields.

that's an interesting question. i would like to know too