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The Church eventually co-opted the egg, as you know, cracked shell as empty tomb, new life emerging, the whole metaphorical package. Listen, it makes sense. You take a symbol that humans have been using for three thousand years to mean <\/span>life begins here<\/span><\/em>, and you point it at your specific resurrection narrative, and it fits like it was made for it. It wasn’t made for it. But it <\/span>feels<\/span><\/em> like it fits.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
The problem (and this is the problem the Church has had with basically every single tradition it came in contact with) is that the egg didn’t need them. The egg was already doing fine. The egg had been the symbol of spring and rebirth and fertility across Egypt, Persia, and Rome before Christianity existed, and it would have kept right on being that whether or not anyone decided to give it a spiritual makeover. The Church didn’t <\/span>give<\/span><\/em> the egg meaning. It <\/span>borrowed<\/span><\/em> meaning the egg already had, and if you look closely enough, that is the story of almost every piece of Christian iconography you’ve ever encountered. The Easter egg is just the one sitting on your kitchen counter in a paper nest, being obvious about it at the moment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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