WTF is Easter?

Why does everyone go ape about Easter? I still don't get the whole relation between the Easter bunny, eggs, and the Resurrection. The whole problem is that Christianity borrows so many things from other belief structures. It's kind of funny how the church can give the exact date of Jesus' birth, but just can't quite decide on the day he died.

Christmas was chosen because it coincided with Yule. Yule was the festival of birth for the pagan beliefs. Yule occurs during the Winter Solstace and signified the "birth" of the sun (son), ie., the days getting longer. Oestra (Easter) is the festival of re-birth. It was to occur on the Spring Equinox, thus signifying the "re-birth" of the sun (son). Oestra was the pagan goddess of re-birth and fertility and her helper was a rabbit (easter bunny). He would hide eggs for luck and fertility. The pagan god was his own father and his own son at the same time. I know that this kind of dichotomy is hard for some people to understand, but you can understand that (G)od is the father of Jesus. Jesus is not only the son, but is (G)od himself.

What is ironic is that Jesus never once said he was the son of (G)od, but he never denied that he was or wasn't. According to Christian belief, we are all (G)od's children, therefore who's to say I'm not the son of (G)od? I know that some of this will piss off some people, but I feel that everyone should learn more about other faiths, and their own, before damning others.

There is a lot about the holy books that doesn't make sense to someone who has an open mind. Who wrote these books? Men did, not (G)od. Man is fallable and therefore anything he touches should be questioned. These books are nothing more than intresting stories. We all should thank Emperor Constantine for inventing this religion and all of the fables and allegories that are taught in it. Monotheism is a good concept to control a people and keep money out of the priests hands, thus eliminating corruption. Monotheism exsisted before Judaism with the Egyptians (pre-Pharonic Egypt). Nearly everything in these books exsisted in some other text or form prior to the coming of Judeo-Christianity. Take a good long look at all of the stories in the books and think about them being nothing more than literature. Step outside of what you were taught and programmed to believe and honestly ask yourself if this is truly believable?

I'm not saying that Judeo-Christianity is wrong, nor am I saying that it's right. All I'm saying is that we as human beings need to question everything before us. Life is a quest for knowledge and for seeking enlightenment. If we follow blindly, are we enlightened? Do we truly gain knowledge? When we are younger we are taught to seek the answers to our questions, but when it comes to religion the answers we recieve make no sense. We are told that Christ died for our sins. Then why should we try to live our lives without sin? It makes no sense to children and it shouldn't make sense to an adult with the ability to make their own rationalizations.

All I ask is that everyone should question everything and if the answers make no sense, then the answer is wrong.