The Easter egg hunt is a giant metaphor for the hide and seek game that Jesus plays with humanity.
The Easter egg hunt is nice Christian way to instill unchecked greed and capitalist tendencies in our children.
The Easter egg hunt is a nice Christian way to show kids that socialism is for losers.
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.
The Easter egg hunt is a knock-off of the Jewish Afikomen hunt of Passover, substituting the egg (spring) for bread of affliction.
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.