How NOT to promote your religious beliefs

With most things, there is a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things.

When it comes to promoting your religious beliefs, there is also usually a tactful way to do things.

This story is a good example of how NOT to let people know that you don’t think Easter is about the Easter Bunny.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe that Easter is about the Easter Bunny. I can’t even find where the early church celebrated a holiday known as Easter. And, unless you’re using a copy of the King James Bible that has had no revisions since its release in 1611 you won’t even find a mention of “Easter” in your Bible . So, not only is Easter not about the Easter Bunny, but the Easter Bunny has a better claim on the holiday than Jesus Christ does.

Be that as it may, no matter what you think about the origin of Easter, putting on a performance in which you intend for young children to be in attendance and then proceed to whip the Easter Bunny is a singularly tactless way to get your point across.

Now, Patty Bickerton, the youth minister, said the performance wasn’t meant to be offensive. In fact, she even played the part of the Easter Bunny. I guess someone has a masochistic streak, huh? On the other hand, the majority of the audience most likely did not.

Now, it could be that in this age of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ that we think people are so desensitized to violence that we would think that taking a whip to the back of the Easter Bunny is “irreverent” and appropriate for small children. I prefer to think, not.

Nonetheless, someone wasn’t thinking straight on this one. If you’re going to put this kind of thing together and whip the Easter Bunny (or Santa Claus for that matter), you do not allow young children to attend. There really is no possible excuse for exposing children as young as four to that kind of thing.

But, what do you expect from people who think they know how religion ought to be conducted better than God does anyway?