Sunday, April 08, 2007
Easter morning sacrilege
Er, open thread...
6 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Sun Apr 08, 12:41:00 PM:
Yes, well, hopefully the cartoon has more to do with kids having taken a bite out of some tasty Easter chocolate, and some amusing (if slightly vulgar) anthropomorphizing responses which then follow, than with any implied sado-masochistic sodomy between Easter Bunnies, which would be over the line of bad taste on the most important date (along with Good Friday) on the Christian calendar.
Easter Bunnies themselves are not, strictly speaking, Christian symbols -- they do not appear in the New Testament, to the best of my recollection. Rather, they remind us of the arrival and renewal of spring and the fecundity of nature. In that sense, the Easter Bunny is a quasi-pagan symbol that is used to make the holiday celebrating Christ's crucifixion and resurrection a bit more fun for kids. And amen to that.
I am not sure that having a similar cartoon with a chocolate Islamic symbol having some part of his anatomy bitten off would be at all well received (though I am not familiar enough with Islamic holidays to know if there is anything which is remotely analagous to the Easter Bunny).
By 
, at
Sun Apr 08, 01:39:00 PM:
You have run afoul of the Hare Club for Men.
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/south_park/index.jhtml
By GreenmanTim, at
Sun Apr 08, 03:09:00 PM:
I am fairly confident that there is no such beast as the Haji Camel, the Satori Swallow, or the Nirvana Ox. I do know for a fact that there is such a being as the beer elf, because it keeps filling my refridgerator with Sierra Nevada Pale Ale no matter how hard I try to empty it. The penalty for mocking this fey spirit doesn't bear contemplating...
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Apr 08, 03:22:00 PM:
GT,
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is an excellent choice. Along with Guinness and Pilsner Urquell, it is the necter of the gods.
By Dymphna, at
Sun Apr 08, 06:26:00 PM:
Tigerhawk--
Hah! My Easter Bunny can beat your cannibalized examples...
Last week, the real dude showed up at our house. He comes out all the time and I do believe he lives under the forsythia bush.
You can see him here.
I suppose some predator will do to him what was done to your bunnies, but in the meantime, send carrots...
By , at
Sun Apr 08, 11:23:00 PM:
Do you think that kids eating those chocolate bunnies mus drive the depwads at PETA crazy they will claim it teaches kids to abuse animals and those PETA dolts kill animals
