Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In the case of the easter hare, those beliefs persisted long after the point at which they would have been associated with Eostre as a fertility goddess, and into christianized populations.

That’s the point - hares don’t seem to have been associated with Eostre at all. They were, however, almost immediately associated with the virgin birth and the resurrection, primarily because hares were believed to be hermaphroditic and could reproduce without sex.

Boru