Die bunny die.....

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This story can be taken in many ways. For some it's sad, others it's funny. You decide

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[<bleeding_heart>]

If you whip a guy dressed up as a happy kind easter bunny (I hope it was a guy in a suit) kids are not gonna take kindly to it. As for it teaching about the crucifixtion its more like its another minister with a sick fetish.

[dezavala]

That's crazy weird. Christian extremists.

[Nxt2Hvn]

What the?

Wow.. that is both Funny and Sad!!!

This world has gone crazy!!!!! I am Christian.... and was raised Christian (okay...like you guys didn't know that)... But the Easter Bunny visited me every Easter!!!

Kids should not be deprived from having an imagination! Sure I knew the real reason for celebrating Easter... (the Crucifiction and Jesus rising from the dead)... but we also had Easter Baskets and Easter Egg Hunts......

If I had seen something like this when I was a kid.... I would still be in counseling!!!!

Some churches just take things too far!!!! Give us Christians a bad rep!!!

Edited April 8, 2004 by Nxt2Hvn

[DC09]

That's just sad.

[buggyelfmaiden]

I'm sorry, but Yeah... I was raised Aethiest, but we still celebrated Easter. And I'm sorry... But I"m all for showing kids the harshness of reality... But doing that....

ICK! BAD TASTE! And I totally agree with Nxt2Hvn.. Stuff like that is giving the church a bad name. That and greedy ways.

Because of the church's greed for money my HUsband's not a preacher. He left because he felt like the Church wasn't doing it for him. Though he is still devoted in his faith. I'd really hate to see what he says about that article.

*Looks at the decor she's putting up for her spring ceremonies* YOu know... The Druids and the Christians are right about one thing.... Spring is a time for a holiday if you think about it.... The world's reawakening... and everything's starting to grow again.... Nice nice time of year.

[Agent_21]

The world's reawakening... and everything's starting to grow again.... Nice nice time of year.

Yeah, I like spring.

As for the story... that's the weirdest thing I've read for a while, and not 'nice weird' either. Whatever happened to easter egg hunts, rolling eggs down hills and chocolate bunnies?

[Krissa]

Easter Bunny flogging not funny

April 10, 2004

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A US annual Easter program at a Pennsylvania church featuring a flogging of the Easter Bunny upset children and left parents stunned, a newspaper reported today.

Some children cried when they witnessed the bunny bashing, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website reported.

The whipping was part of a program this week in a stadium in Glassport, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Glassport Assembly of God.

Performers declared "There is no Easter Bunny" as they struck another performer dressed in a white rabbit costume. They also smashed coloured eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt.

Like Santa Claus at Christmas, the Easter Bunny - usually people dressed in a bunny costume - plays a pivotal role in many public Easter celebrations in shopping malls and other public places across the United States.

The church said its performance intended to stress the religious aspects of Easter.

"Easter is not all about egg hunts and Easter bunnies," a statement issued by the Glassport Assembly of God said, according to the Tribune-Review. "The message of Easter is the good news of our Lord."

[shirini]

WTF!

Those Evil, evil evil people hartless, evil people.

They are going to go to hell.

[Britannica]

"Easter is not all about egg hunts and Easter bunnies," a statement issued by the Glassport Assembly of God said, according to the Tribune-Review. "The message of Easter is the good news of our Lord."

How is the message of God served by violence and mentally scarring children? I thought the whole idea was peace and love? If they weren't Christian they wouldn't have been allowed to get away with it. People like that...just...Grrrrr!!!

[Universal Absurdity]

this story was funny

from my understanding, jesus was born in the spring , and died in the winter.

in order to get more pagans to convert the church swapped the 2 holidays to make the pagans a bit more privy to converting

i may be wrong , but if i am correct, it makes the story even funnier.

religion is the biggest mess man could have come up with

it is good in its idea, and its values, other than that we may as well go to the monkey house in the zoo for services

[snuffypuffer]

A bunny flogging ceremony? By who I'm guessing are Evangelical Christians? Are you sure this isn't a joke? I mean the whole thing is just so.. absurd.

[Guest Lottie]

How Idiotic. Oh god that is really sad sad sad.

[Rivendell]

This world has gone crazy!!!!! I am Christian.... and was raised Christian (okay...like you guys didn't know that)... But the Easter Bunny visited me every Easter!!!

Me too! I also got visited from Santa every year and Halloween was always my favorite holiday.

No wonder Christians get a bad stereotype, with sick people like this running about.

[mowo]

These Christians have to bring religion into everything.

First Christmas, and now Easter! What public holiday is safe?

Next they'll be trying to make pancake day all religious...

[Naveed]

It's reasons like that they I'm having a hard time with the idea of possibly ever attending a church again. I left my old one cuz they were to extreme.

Anyways it was funny in Mallrats when they beat up the Easter Bunny, but not when a church does it in order to say "Easter isn't about a rabbit". Well, no $hit Shirlock, almost every body knows what it is about, the Easter Bunny is just there to make it enjoyable for little kids who may not understand the whole "Resurrection" of Christ concept, or for those who choose not to believe in it.

[babyforrest]

I am religious, but it is important to have fun, too. If you can't have fun, what's the point? People who take religion too seriously bother me. Hallowe'en is a time when kids dress up and get candy from the neighbours, Santa comes on Christmas Eve, and the Easter Bunny comes on, well, Easter. You can celebrate both aspects of religious holidays. I used to have friends that wouldn't celebrate any of those holidays, and ignored all birthdays. Basically no celebrations of any kind were allowed, or you were considered to be pagan and doomed to burn in hell for all eternity. They could also have no socializing or entertainment starting sundown Friday night, and ending sundown Saturday night. I felt sorry for them, never having any fun.

[GunnerCDM]

uh... that is soo wrong i still remember when i was real little on easter egg hunts going to the mall to see the easter bunny etc, some kids will probally have problems later in life because of that. and don't they also realise not everyone who celebrates easter is christan? some people just do it so they're kids will have good childhood memorys, someone needs to tie those people who did it up and whip them.

[SilverCougar]

"Easter is not all about egg hunts and Easter bunnies," a statement issued by the Glassport Assembly of God said, according to the Tribune-Review. "The message of Easter is the good news of our Lord."

Then bloody make up a name for your holiday and stop stealing and mangling the ones Pagans' have been celebrating long before christianity!

It's like an insult, then salt rubbed into the wound.

Gods, and nothing like traumatizing kids... What is wrong with some people?

[chico del nacho]

lol that's terrible but lordy lordy that's funnny how they say they didn't know the kids would take it badly...

maybe next year, they'll put on a show with santa getting a curb stomp...

[Naveed]

"Easter is not all about egg hunts and Easter bunnies," a statement issued by the Glassport Assembly of God said, according to the Tribune-Review. "The message of Easter is the good news of our Lord."

No wonder they did it. They are a branch of Pentacostals, which amazingly turned out to be stronger then the Pentacostal church I used to attend. Oh well, thats why I became a heathen, I learned what religion can be like on the extreme side and choose to just believe God and no religion.