The Passion of the Easter Bunny

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Actors Whip Easter Bunny at Church Show
Wed Apr 7, 5:18 PM
GLASSPORT, Pa. - A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children.
People who attended Saturday's performance 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."

woooo! the fun never stops with religious people who miss the point!

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right - Easter is totally about the Easter bunny.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

something must be done about the furries.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

what wussy kids

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

they should have pelted the bunny on the cross with Cradbury's Creme Eggs(TM), for extra gorey/gooey/yummy effect.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess the events of Dogma inspired Jay and Silent Bob enough that they started a church in Pennsylvania.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.wobshite.co.uk/b3ta/easter.jpg

― winterland, Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

why the self-mutilating woman? its been years since i read the new testament but wtf?

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Or after finding out in Mallrats that there is no Easter Bunny, that's just a guy in a suit (you dumb bastard).

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

xposts

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Just the phrase "you dumb bastard" makes me laugh out loud, it's pathetic.

kephm, ancient Romans needed to bleed to feel alive, they hadn't discovered coke yet.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know the Romans did that. i can almost see the logic to the whipping the bunny part, but the mutilation seems a bit much. isn't that for another bible study week?

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it'd be really funny is churches fell the need to get REALLY gorey in their easter plays.

they could sub-contract out the special effects to GWAR...

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if there is a market for easter pron. jesus getting some love on the 12 steps to the cross

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I've actually read Jesus-on-the-Cross-woundfucking porn. Let me see if I can find it, it was the sample "this is what we look for" story attached to the submission guidelines for some place.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Here it is.

Happy Easter weekend, y'all.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(It's multi-page, you click on the picture on the bottom to advance.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate you

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't make you click!

(It doesn't actually have woundfucking in it, I think. I misremembered.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Maundy Thursday for Christ's sake. You're supposed to be washing each other's feet or something, not ... this.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Holy Thrusday.

We already had this celebration at school seeing as to how we are on break today. That being done, I think I'll use this day to remember Kurt Cobain instead.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus Christ wants you Christians to stop being such douchebags!

― The Jesus (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

in other news, the church won't bury one of my friends grandmother this week because it-is-a holy week .WTF? is this routine?

maybe we'll print out the article and leave a few hundred copies in the church parking lot sunday morning

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Maundy Thursday is Holy Thursday, only it's got a better name.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/stephen/images/bunny1.jpg

― lid, Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rsapia.com/2001_pictures/ryan_easter_bunny.jpg

― lid, Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Those are some scary fuckin' bunnies.

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That little girl's plotting something.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

tep, that's woundfucking great. Actually the fact that that was part of the submission guidelines is woundfucking greater than the actual story.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The trainers kind of spoil the effect. Is it Robert Smith?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but then they rejected my story!

Actually they never responded. Nor has the front page changed in well over a year. I suspect Bloodfetish pulses no more.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I look forward to the resurrection of Bloodfetish and the woundfucking of the world to come.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yea and we will all be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

im sorry for hijacking the thread with pictures, but Googling image-search Easter bunny is probably the best thing i have ever done with my life.

http://www.wowmuseum.com/images/Events/Easterbunny.jpg

― lid, Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that Edward Norton?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The toys r us commercial with hundreds of singing easter bunnies is possibly the great work of art ever committed to celluloid.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

www.arches.uga.edu/~reporebo/babies2.jpg

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Bunnies are better than jesus. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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