It has only taken 4 days for the community to completely de-rail following the post: "I noticed that MNA granted money to the Easter Egg Hunt. Are there details available yet?"
If by details you mean is everyone about to lose their shit, then yes, there are plenty of details available!
The event leader followed with a post explaining the date, time, where to hide eggs, and information about the Easter bunny making a surprise appearance. I mean, don't they know that the Easter bunny might as well be a walking crucified Jesus??? It's all fun and games until someone starts trying to bring in the furries.
jlincove: On behalf of my family and other families that are not Christian, I would ask that you rethink this event. It sends a strange message to our kids if the neighborhood is sponsoring Easter. Can you please change the name so that all our children can participate?
inowaku: I agree the poster that the use of the term "Easter" is offensive to my family. We would be much more comfortable participating in a Spring egg gathering celebration, granted you can ensure that these eggs came from free range chickens.
bullcreek: The modern English term Easter is speculated to have developed from Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre or Eoaster, which itself developed prior to 899. The name refers to Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar attested by Bede as named after the goddess Ēostre of Anglo-Saxon paganism. (etc....)
roberts_bj: Really, can someone request funds for an activity that is derived from some other religion than Christianity already? Please?! I will sign my family up as the first participants.
And of course, my good ole friend C Frimire, who previously hid in his garage waiting for bicycle thiefs:
On the morning of April 4th, I will personally be hiding Bibles, Korans, Torahs, Books of Mormon, I Chings, Vedas, Tipitakas, and a handful of treatises on why god doesn't exist and why people continue to fight over talking snakes and such.
Imagine it, a bright, sunny, spring morning...
But lo!
...Out there in the streets and yards of our quiet Mueller neighborhood, your children may accidentally discover an contrary point of view and start to ask questions.
God or nothing forbid!
Heavens or nothing to Betsy!
It will be chaos!
inowaku: I signed my child (I don't use non-inclusive terms such as "son" or "daughter") up for the Fancy Lads. This group is a safe environment for children free of religious zealotry. Activities include fabulous shopping trips, acapella choir, and protesting discriminatory Easter egg hunts. While the Fancy Lads are inclusive to all lifestyle choices, we don't allow Christians to participate.
Wilbur Befuddlenick: I have recently moved here and I think with the high density living arrangements that events like this should not be supported. Please think of the noise pollution that an event like this is going to have.
So how does this great debate end?
McCloskeys: We hope that everyone will join us on Saturday, April 3rd at 3:30 pm for the Mueller Egg Scramble.
6 comments:
ha! that's absurd! have you met a lot of people in the neighborhood? are they like that?
so does anyone write back "you are all crazy?"
Oh yeah, there are plenty of people that write back and say they're overreacting, overly sensitive, etc. As you might expect, that just ignites more comments though! Ha.
In general everyone seems perfectly normal. I think this same exact thing would happen in any neighborhood forum - the problem is, people feel really secure behind their screen names, so they mouth off when normally in person you'd just pipe down or be polite.
Honestly, what does Jesus really have to do with hunting for eggs anyways? It's not like he tucked them behind trees and gave instructions to a human-sized rabbit before he rose on the third day. These progressive Mueller people need to chillax over religious events that really have no religious relevance to begin with.
whoa! that's REDIC!
My favorite is the person who calls his son/daughter "child" in an attempt to be inclusive by signing him/her up for the Fancy Lads. Last time I checked, Fancy Lads was synonymous with rainbows, the color lavender, and It's Raining Men.
Also, did you notice the activities? "fabulous shopping trips, acapella choir..."
Perhaps inowaku would have been better off saying, "My child is a homo and will be spending the day dyeing eggs with argyle prints. He's too sophisticated to hunt for easter eggs."
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