How utterly fucking vile.

Were these little abominations put together by clueless foreigners, or semi-literate jingoistic natives?

All your marshallow peeps are belong to us

Easter baskets from the folks who brought you Good Friday.

And before this turns into a war toy thread, let me say that I spent many hours playing with G.I. Joe and toy guns, but co-opting the most significant Christian holiday to sell war to kids is on the same level as using 9-11 to push a slimy political agenda.
As Max Von Sydow's character in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" said -
”If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in His name, He'd never stop throwing up.”.

'Other Christian groups agree. Dr. Richard Land, president of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention commission on ethics and religious liberty, says, "Well, of course, it certainly would be a jarring note for the celebration of Easter. I certainly wouldn't buy one for my children, when my children were small."'

So, I guess it would be OK for older kids? Maybe a real gun, and some chewin' tobaccy, for teen Christian Warriors.

It's not like this is something new. I used to work at Kmart, and I've seen Easter baskets, Christmas baskets, Halloween bundles, and other things from bygone days. They've always included various toys not necessarily related to the holidays...going with what's hot, I suppose. And war toys seem to be hot this season.

I'm not one of those people who dislikes war toys—in fact, cartoons and movies and such that jingoistically go after "war toys" as being evil (such as the Robin Williams movie Toys) get on my nerves severely. Still, this does seem to be in a bit of bad taste.

Why does this surpirse anyone. Onward Christain Soliders and all that. Folks forget about the crusades and it greatest chapter the childrens crusades? Talk about Kill For Jesus lets move up to modern days with white supremist camps, abortion clinic bombers, the PTL and its vast multimedia offspring, the whole Irish/English conflict (thought that one was over? yea right) and the various other conflict for the betterment of a Christian World and Jesus's Love.



Easter Time is simply another consumer holiday to be used abused and profited from by merging the media manipulations de jour and the constant chaching of the mass market consumers to buy into this level of mind numbing means to mold thier life styles.



Come on folks, we even have Country songs telling us how the only way to be a good god fearing american is to mouth the words given to us on RIAA controled lyric sheets and otherwise shut the fuck up and know our roles.



Consumers for Chirst, name the movies and the sceen where that shows us just where we are now.



"remeber, we are all in this togther" Tuttle.



-tomwsmf

Look closely at the photo and you can see Bendable-Action Hero*... look even closer and you see a footnote that says: *To everything but the U.N., the international community and your citizen's wishes.

Edited by author 03-05-2003 09:31 PM
can I get a link to this from somewhere else. I'm trying to show this to a few religious conservative friends of mine. for some reason they don't trust the source ;)