The Spring Bunny

You read right. That's what some yahoo in some town thought that the Easter Bunny should be called: the Spring Bunny. First it was the Christmas tree that came under attack and now it's the Easter Bunny. Here's the thing---if these symbols of religious holidays that are not part of your religion bother you, can't you just ignore them? Something else: the Christmas tree and the Easter Bunny aren't exactly religious symbols in that they don't symbolize anything in the Bible. Sure, they're part of the whole religious holiday but they aren't scripturally symbolic. The cross is a religious symbol but that's not part of any celebrating. Nobody decorates a cross---that would be, well, just wrong somehow. And nowhere that I've ever read does the Easter Bunny or Easter eggs ever get mentioned as part of any doctrine. I'm not huge on Christmas trees or Easter anyway (even though I believe in Jesus and God and the Bible and believe what's in it is important, even vital), but the fact that people enjoy decorating a Christmas tree and have fun hiding Easter eggs and summoning up the Easter bunny doesn't bother me. (Yes, I can see that since I'm not Jewish or Muslim or an atheist, etc., it obviously wouldn't bother me very much.) Still, it seems like maybe there are more important causes and issues to put one's energy into. Maybe hunger and poverty are a more worthy cause of outrage than the naming of a tree a CHRISTMAS tree; maybe child abuse and neglect are more important needs for resources than worrying about the EASTER bunny.

Am I wrong here? Tell me what I'm missing.