This is just fucked:
GLASSPORT, Pa. - First, the Passion of the Christ. Now, the torment of the Easter Bunny?
It may not have been as gruesome as Mel Gibson’s movie, but many parents and children got upset when a church trying to teach about Jesus’ crucifixion performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs.
People who attended Saturday’s show at Glassport’s memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, “There is no Easter bunny,” and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was crucified.
Melissa Salzmann, who brought her 4-year-old son J.T., said the program was inappropriate for young children. “He was crying and asking me why the bunny was being whipped,” Salzmann said.
Patty Bickerton, the youth minister at Glassport Assembly of God, said the performance wasn’t meant to be offensive. Bickerton portrayed the Easter rabbit and said she tried to act with a tone of irreverence.
“The program was for all ages, not just the kids. We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ,” Bickerton said.
Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman, said Jennifer Norelli-Burke, another parent who saw the show in Glassport, a community about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
“It was very disturbing,” Norelli-Burke said. “I could not believe what I saw. It wasn’t anything I was expecting.”
First I get to watch Jackass: The Movie on DVD last night, and now they’re scourging the Easter Bunny in front of kids?
God, what has our civilization come to…
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We think that it was terrible how the meaning of Easter was portrayed in front of children!!!!!!! How could they even do such a thing? Are their heads attached to their bodies? That is enough to make us hurl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teaching the meaning of Easter by whipping a bunny? What the fuck is wrong with you? THAT’s what Jesus would do?
As much as I loathe religion, and the divisiveness and death it so often leaves in its wake, I find this little Easter tale of BDSM quite the inspiration.
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TITLE: The Passion of the Easter Bunny
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
Not a spoof, a real event. You have to read this one to believe it….
PING:
TITLE: The Passion of the Easter Bunny
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
Not a spoof, a real event. You’ll have to read this one to believe it… it’s pretty funny in a dark sort of way….