Comments on: All that was left was a bunch of broken eggs and furr from a really large rabbit

All that was left was a bunch of broken eggs and furr from a really large rabbit

Recockulous — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:35:50 -0800

Those crazy christians, look what they'v done now. Beating down the Easter Bunny in front of children... THATS NOT RIGHT! I post this because I found it amusing. I am a proud follower of Jesus Christ... but please dont confuse me with these people.

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:47:46 -0800

Normally I don't comment on threads about religious nuttiness, but this one made me giggle. I want this show at the next Fringe Festival - and only the original cast will do!

By: hob

hob — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:52:06 -0800

...Get him, Silent Bob!

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:59:09 -0800

I live 1 minute from Glassport, PA, and have seen football games in that stadium. Very surprised to see that little town propelled into the blogsphere, the "Most Ridiculous Item" on O'Reilly, and the #1 story on Countdown on MSNBC. The jokes have been constant at my high school, so glad to be a Senior.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:02:33 -0800

Just wait until they stuff that jolly old elf RIGHT back up the chimney.

By: precocious

precocious — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:03:34 -0800

Aww, hob beat me to it.

By: precocious

precocious — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:04:39 -0800

...No pun intended. Really.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:11:56 -0800

I am glad that there are some God fearing folk out there who aren't afraid to remind us that Christians can lay a serious smackdown on a non-believer if they're into furries.

By: ChristFollower

ChristFollower — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:37:32 -0800

And we wonder why people think Jesus believers are whacked! I too am a humble follower of Christ (duh! what gave that away?) and learned a simple rule...if someone is accurately representing Christ they will imitate Him (love, gentleness, forgiveness, serve people)...not hang a brutal beating on a furry rodent! I feel for the parents that have to explain it to the kids... :) Happy Easter everyone! Remember the reason for the season!

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:06:58 -0800

I have to agree with those Christian folk on this one. I hate that fucking Easter Bunny. He only got what was coming to him. Next up: Santa Claus.

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:31:39 -0800

"We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ," Bickerton said. Dude, wake up: it's a secular vacation involving chocolate.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:47:36 -0800

snarfodox, i fear the problem festers a bit deeper than most beleive.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 02:28:06 -0800

Dude, wake up: it's a secular vacation involving chocolate. Yeah, but that doesn't stop Christians from going on about how the "real meaning" of Easter is about Jesus. Just like the "real meaning" of Christmas is apparently about Jesus. The kind of Christians who like to preach are generally insufferable at either time of year. Everyone with any sense knows that both Easter and Christmas are really co-opted pagan festivals: the Spring festival (celebrating new life) and the Winter festival. Well, I hope they do, anyway.

By: dmt

dmt — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:36:02 -0800

Y'know, as an atheist I'm drawn in admiration to the virtues which on paper, the Christian faith is supposed to epitomise: charity, humility, justice, temperance, fortitude, etc. Ironic that these qualities seem to be found to an inversely proportionate when set against the populism of the congregation in question.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:40:42 -0800

reklaw, they don't most of the time. Just roll your eyes at them and back away, lest they burn you on some bonfire. ;)

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:42:26 -0800

(er.. they don't know any history or about the co-opted pagan... nevermind. bad joke).

By: konolia

konolia — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:26:31 -0800

Beating bunnies is just bad.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:33:01 -0800

How inspirational! I'm gonna kick that tooth fairy's ass, the damn little homo! And Cupid better watch his little fairy ass too or I'll nail it to the wall! [/snark] Aren't Easter eggs and bunnies signs of fertility? Are these folks guilty of the federal crime of murdering fetuses?

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:40:01 -0800

nofundy, you remind me of P.J. O'Rourke's quip: "If meat is murder, are eggs rape?" I'd give my left nut to see this mishmash of alleged family entertainment. If they wanted to make the point that the season isn't really about the Easter Bunny but about Jesus' death and resurrection, I can think of other ways to do it, preferably without upsetting young children. (Disclaimer: Christianity is really a religion for adults. Children don't grok sacrifice very well, let alone more advanced concepts like salvation through grace.)

By: ewkpates

ewkpates — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:52:30 -0800

Maybe Evangelical Christianity is for adults... but JC can easily be explained to kids. If you hit your sister, your sister will hit you back. If you share with your sister, your sister will share with you. Its a good test of a religious perspective that it can be explained to children.

By: substrate

substrate — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:57:52 -0800

Jesus never hit back ewkpates.

By: verstegan

verstegan — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:58:44 -0800

Of all the Pagan symbols created by Satan to steal the True Christian History of religious holidays, none save Santa Claus is more dangerous than the Easter Bunny. Painted pagan eggs, Easter baskets and yellow marshmallow chickens don't hold a candle to this furry four-legged demonic spawn, forged in the fires of Hell by Lucifer himself, for the sole purpose of distracting innocent little snow-white children from the true meaning behind Easter Sunday.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 05:05:28 -0800

That is funny, the easter bunny is older than Satan. :)

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 05:16:13 -0800

Dudes, it's just another variation of showbusiness. For some reason somebody thinks showing a blooddrenched Christ is educational, and beating a bunny is educational as well. I mean idiots sometime are in showbusiness as well. There's no need to re-enact and make millions out of it or to beat a defenseless bunny : show real war pictures (any war) that is as bad or worse then a crucifixion.

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 06:02:37 -0800

Did Gibson direct this one too?

By: thrakintosh

thrakintosh — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 06:08:21 -0800

Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:31:50 -0800

This rather expands the definition of an "all-ages" show now, doesn't it. But - hey folks - it's a cruel, violent, bizarre world out there. The sooner young children are acclimated to this, the better. America's kids will have an awful lot of fighting to do in their time and - as has been recently demonstrated in several African conflicts - fairly young children can wield automatic weapons. We must all work together, as a nation, to toughen up our "little Christian warriors". - Yours truly, an American patriot* _______________________________________________ ' "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." ' I always thought Easter was a graft of a Christian holiday onto some sort of Pre-Christian fertility ritual. But apparently, Easter also features drunkeness and self mutilation - though it's not clear as to which traditions (pre or post Christian) these ritualistic observances belong. But it's clear to this observer that Pastor Bickerton has tactlessly shoved her previously privately held beliefs now into the public realm - obviously, Bickerton believes that Easter is about whipping bunnies. She might even be initiating a dark plan to supplant Jesus...by a rabbit! So, let us ask : what do rabbits do? The answer is starkly plain. Rabbits breed with abandon, live for the moment, and are pacifistic, lilly-livered cowards who run from danger rather than taking a stand. So there you have it. Bickerton is pushing her pacifistic, undisciplined, amoral, sex crazed agenda - it could even be communist, I suspect - on America's youth. For shame. *just kidding

By: muckster

muckster — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:35:22 -0800

Does that mean Easter is cancelled?

By: nickmark

nickmark — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:37:49 -0800

All I can say is, I'm very much looking forward to my traditional rabbit dinner on Sunday.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:41:03 -0800

dabitch - Great link. "In Bohemia, Christ was honored on Friday through Sun's Day, and then on Moon's Day they carried his Pagan rival, the Lord of Death, out and threw him into the water while singing: Death swims in the water, spring comes to visit us, with eggs that are red, with yellow pancakes, we carried Death out of the village, we are carrying Summer into the village." Where did the pancakes come from, I wonder.....is this the earliest known historical mention of a nascent pancake tradition which has risen to it's fullest and puffiest glory on Metafilter ?

By: Slagman

Slagman — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:50:32 -0800

Fuck the Easter Bunny.

By: aacheson

aacheson — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:16:03 -0800

"Mommy, why are they beating the Easter Bunny?" "Honey, the Easter Bunny has to for our sins!"

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:44:44 -0800

Trout, congratulations, you win a pancake for spotting it! and another one for your earlier comment, sex crazed agenda, brilliant.

By: deanc

deanc — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:56:45 -0800

Everyone with any sense knows that both Easter and Christmas are really co-opted pagan festivals: the Spring festival (celebrating new life) and the Winter festival. Well, I hope they do, anyway. Actually, Easter is really co-opted Jewish Passover. That's why non-English-speaking Christians generally call this Sunday's holiday "Pascha." But, yeah, as Slate.com explains, German immigrants brought the whole Easter Bunny thing to the US, as it was associated with pre-Christian German folklore.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:08:20 -0800

A youth pastor. Somehow that explains it all. (You Christians with "Contemporary PoMo Youth Pastor" experience know what I mean. ;)

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:56:54 -0800

People who attended Saturday's show at Glassport's memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, "There is no Easter bunny," Is there an Easter grinch?

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:17:24 -0800

If you hit your sister, your sister will hit you back. If you share with your sister, your sister will share with you. Can someone please embroider this on a pillow and mail it to the White House? Thanks!

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:20:18 -0800

"The program was for all ages, not just the kids." Am I alone in finding this the funnist line in the article?

By: Miles Long

Miles Long — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:21:25 -0800

But, yeah, as Slate.com explains, German immigrants brought the whole Easter Bunny thing to the US, as it was associated with pre-Christian German folklore. posted by deanc at 8:56 AM PST on April 9 interesting how christmas as we celebrate it in America is also mostly German. Tannenbaum, Father Christmas, etc.

By: stringbean

stringbean — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:43:04 -0800

Interesting link, dabitch. Am I alone in finding this the funnist line in the article? No, Hildago. You are not.

By: rafter

rafter — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:53:44 -0800

It's apparently something of a bad year for the Easter Bunny.

By: Darke

Darke — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:35:55 -0800

Maybe they weren't trying to criticize the commercialization of modern Easter, but instead trying to showcase proper church-sanctioned BDSM techniques?

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:19:36 -0800

Easter is when the stone is rolled away from the Tomb and our blessed Savior emerges...and if He sees His shadow, we get six more weeks of Lent.