what bunny rabbit got to do with Christ?
a question like this is like asking Thai Buddhists, 'what does a heart symbol have to do with Buddhism in valentines day celebration?...don't they know that they are celebrating the feast day of st. valentine, christian martyr saints?
it is like asking the japanese, 'what does january 1 have to do with Shintoism in new year's day celebration?...don't they know that they are celebrating the feast day of Christ's circumcision?
it is like asking yourself or other people around you, 'what time is it?..what year is it?..what day is it?...when is my birthday?...what does a calendar have to do with you?..don't you know that you are using a gregorian calendar decreed by a catholic pope Gregory XIII?
it is like a Muslim Bahraini celebrating Eid ul-Fitr sitting in his IKEA couch made by Finnish Orthodox, watching EUFA game played by European Christian teams in a 65" Toshiba HDTV made in Japan by Buddhists and Shintos while enjoying his favorite Beriani catered from Hindu restaurant...what do all these stuff have to do with Allah in celebrating Eid?
if you say that your religion is unmitigated from the influence of other major religions, then think again because you are living with it every day...
the view that religious belief consists in holding that a number of picturesque supernatural propositions are descriptively true is encouraged by the continuing grip on people's minds of a decadent and mystifying dogmatic theology. In effect I am arguing that for the sake of clarity it should be discarded entirely, and replaced by the practice of religion - ethics and spirituality - and the philosophy of religion. Then religion can become itself again, with a clear intellectual conscience at last....