Holy Smokes! I received this post card in the mail. A church in my city will drop 30,000 Easter eggs from a helicopter (yes, thirty THOUSAND).
Are you thinking the following:
1) 30,000 is a lot of sh*t–a lot of plastic to drop onto the ground and into our streams.
2) Think of all the petroleum that went into making those 30,000 plastic eggs. Can you think of anything–anything at all–that could possibly be MORE wasteful than this?
3) What the hell do make-believe chicken eggs have to do with Easter and the religious celebration? Or, does this go along with the pretending to be dead thing?
4) Wait! There’s more….Hmmmm….I think I saw a kid’s movie about this….it was raining food from the sky….And the moral of that story was?
5) Think of the manpower and the cost to buy, fill and airlift these frivilous imitation eggs.
6) What are you teaching your children, people? Rent a helicopter to drop candy we don’t need to kids who are already too fat? It’s all about us, right?
7) Does this church have WAY too much money? Shouldn’t they be spending their funds on something more church-like? (Read: stocking the food pantry with NON-candy.)
8) ”Prizes given away: An iPad, XBox kinect, and Wii.” Seriously??? Are agnostics and atheists invited? My kid has always wanted a Wii.
9) How long will it take to clean up all this litter?
10) What were the church leaders thinking when they came up with this idea? Wait–were they thinking?
I kid you not. This is really going to happen Saturday, April 23rd at 9:30 AM. I know, I know. Insane.
Thanks for sharing this – it is too funny!! Just goes to show that churches (like any other business) have to promote themselves with publicity stunts. When I started reading it I thought they were dropping real eggs – not sure if that would be better or worse than plastic – certainly messier.
LOL. That would be a little gross!
It’s funny you say that–churches have to promote themselves, too. There was an article in the paper about the great egg drop! (I guess the investment in advertising paid off!) I wondered how they would drop the plastic eggs without them breaking open. Even though the helicopter hovered low, the article mentioned that the eggs did have trouble staying together!
My daughter is almost 9. She gets a lot of religion at school and has decided that, unlike mom and dad, she believes in God and Jesus. Recently I was explaining to her that the reason why we have eggs and bunnies at Easter time is because since ancient times people celebrated the coming of spring and new life at this time of year. (Not here in South Africa where we’re going into winter though. I think that made it more difficult for her to understand.) I was trying to get the message across that this celebration is much older than Christianity, and that the symbols commonly associated with it has nothing to do with religion. When she commented that oh, that means Jesus died in springtime, I realised my explanations didn’t hit the spot. Oh well, try again next time!
That is funny! Thanks for shaing this, Heila. I think you’re right–there’s a time when things “click.” I remember having that talk with my kids about Easter, and that it is based on an ancient planting tradition. I tried to tell them why the date of Easter changes. My older kid got it at the time, but it was lost on my younger one.
I’m sure there were bible verses inside of those eggs. There is no end to what stunts religion will go to “spread the word” and of course, they are rolling in money. Next they will fly to the moon and erect a giant cross you can see from earth.
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