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The Easter egg hunt is a giant metaphor for the hide and seek game that Jesus plays with humanity.

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The Easter egg hunt is nice Christian way to instill unchecked greed and capitalist tendencies in our children.

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The Easter egg hunt is a nice Christian way to show kids that socialism is for losers.

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The Easter egg hunt is a custom perhaps dating back to the late 16th century, when Martin Luther organised egg hunts whereby the men would hide the eggs for the women and children to find as a nod to the story of the resurrection, in which the empty tomb was discovered by women.

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The Easter egg hunt is a knock-off of the Jewish Afikomen hunt of Passover, substituting the egg (spring) for bread of affliction.

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The Easter egg hunt is a custom which, in South German folk traditions, involved adding extra obstacles (and thus evoking the symbolism of adversity) by placing the eggs in hard-to reach places among nettles or thorns.

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