March 26
...serving up your daily dish.
Those Skyline Church guys must really know how to throw an Easter Egg hunt. This was the scene earlier today in Brookdale Park, where about 2,000 people descended on a field of 16,000 candy-filled eggs.The Bloomfield blogger known as Cootiehog went with her husband, who took this picture.
March 26, 2005 in Seen around town | Permalink
Nuttin' like candy and toys and goodies to brainwash kids into lovin' Jesus.
Posted by: X | Mar 26, 2005 6:11:47 PM
I can't believe that some people can make even a simple EASTER EGG HUNT into something horrible and subversive.
X, it was an Easter Egg Hunt. You know, where kids eat candy and play games and take their picture with a big giant bunny.
Would you have a snarky remark about brainwashing if the local Rotary Club sponsored the event?
Posted by: jaynee | Mar 26, 2005 11:20:26 PM
Jaynee,
Don't take chattistas so seriously. This is a space where walter egos come out to play. It's a way of getting people with many different views in one space venting without any fists flying. Live and let live in cyberspace! Happy Easter......PAZ
Posted by: PAZ | Mar 27, 2005 11:40:18 AM
Paz, I usually have a sense of humor, but when it comes to people being really degrading of religion I get more than a little frustrated. Especially when people call an Easter Egg Hunt a brainwashing tool. I'm sure it's meant in jest, but it's still tiresome. And as I said in my original response, I doubt a sarcastic comment would have been made if the Egg Hunt was sponsored by non-religious group.
Posted by: Jaynee | Mar 27, 2005 1:27:11 PM
Secular Egg Chase* Troop = SECT!
*This event begins on a hilltop.
Posted by: Chris | Mar 27, 2005 1:45:59 PM
Jaynee,
Is this your first with liberal elitism?
It is pretty par for the course. People of faith are the one group they feel comfortable making fun of.
Religious people are outside their supposed "sphere" of tolerance.
Posted by: Right of Center | Mar 27, 2005 3:42:22 PM
RoC - certainly not my first taste of liberalism. I enjoy reading a lot of blogs written by so-called "progressives". And when such prejudice against the spiritual is GENERALIZED I take no offense but rather just roll my eyes, but when they criticize the *very church I attend* for no reason other than because they feel superior - then my dander gets riled up a bit.
Posted by: Jaynee | Mar 27, 2005 6:29:13 PM
Just a reminder that when fascism/communism comes to power, one of the first groups of people that are "silenced" are the religious folk.
Just because someone believes in God and/or follows a religion does not make him or her a member of a cult or a un-educated, right-wing fundie.
For a group that bills itself as tolerant, I find liberals to be the most intolerant of people who don't think and act like they do.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Mar 27, 2005 10:45:37 PM
Liberals are the most intolerant group? Puh-leez. That's such a load of rubbish.
Posted by: walleroo | Mar 28, 2005 10:09:20 AM
> when fascism/communism comes to power, one of the first groups of people that are "silenced" are the religious folk.
The problem in the case of the United States in 2005, however, is that it is religious extremists who have come to power, and they're trying to silence the nonreligious folk.
Posted by: Chris | Mar 29, 2005 2:05:20 AM
