Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
What is it about The Passion of the Christ that sends people so completely around the bend? First, there's the elementary school teacher in DC who felt that extended scenes of realistic torture and execution would be appropriate to show his students, prompting the school to offer counseling to some badly shaken kids. And now, Ezra and Jesse spot a story that I can only surmise is a clever kickback scheme for child psychologists.
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 [Pennsylvania] 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. [...] Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman.
Hey, you've been a great crowd, thanks for coming. Be sure to catch our Christmas pageant where we'll be feeding Santa Claus to the lions and our special Bastille Day guest performance, when we'll be guillotining the Teletubbies. And remember kids: every time you touch yourself down there, God gives the Easter Bunny another forty lashes. Jesus loves you!
TrackBackI have also wondered about The Passion of the Christ effect.
I went, I saw, I said "that's a fairly adequate movie, nothing to write home about though..... maybe I should have saved a few bucks and waited until it came on on DVD."
Really, it was OK but that's about as high a rating as I'm willing to give it. Nobody in the theater was given any sort of divine revelation although a few people did cry - and if anyone was "changed" they certainly weren't talking about it in the lobby or at the bus stop.
Posted by: stageleft at April 8, 2004 03:26 PMI really don't get The Scourging of the Easter Bunny. I mean, I get it, they're saying Easter isn't about a bunny and eggs, but I still don't get it.
This is some apocalyptic shit.
Posted by: Michael at April 9, 2004 01:18 PMThis must be a Saturday Night skit, right?
I mean I remember singing "Eat his body, drink his blood, then we'll sing a song of love" in church camp, but we didn't involve animals.
Posted by: Tripp at April 9, 2004 01:38 PM"Eat his body, drink his blood, then we'll sing a song of love"
Is that on the soundtrack of the "Dawn of the Dead" remake?
Posted by: apostropher at April 9, 2004 01:51 PMi believe you all are not looking close enough while watching the movie because you would have seen that many christians would learn the true value of how Jesus suffered and died for our sins...that is what i learned because i got a visual picture of what Jesus did for our sins....and what does the Easter bunny in the advertisement have to do with "The passion of the christ"?
i believe you all are not looking close enough while watching the movie because you would have seen that many christians would learn the true value of how Jesus suffered and died for our sins...that is what i learned because i got a visual picture of what Jesus did for our sins....and what does the Easter bunny in the advertisement have to do with "The passion of the christ"?