But it did get me thinking.
Having recently been to the Passion of the Christ, the contrast between Bunnies and Blood is very much at the forefront of my mind.
On one hand there are those who want to shock you into believing. They want you to believe that God will be angry with you if you don't acknowledge that Jesus died a horrible death on the cross because we are intrinsically sinful from birth:
BBC news reported at the end of March on a mock crucifixion, complete with fake blood and gore that shocked shoppers and bystanders in the town of Reading.
Here is another article about the same story in the Guardian:Gory crucifixion makes town's shoppers cross
And on the other hand, there are whole stores set up to sell us Jesus' merchandise:
Devine Treasures is a store that is having a sale on Easter paraphenalia. I checked out the rest of their site and found a plethora of religious items for sale. Crosses, plaques, plates, crucifixes, statues, angles, music boxes etc. Why don't they set up a temple, get some money changers and sell some indugences as well?
It is the Golden Calf that we pay homage to, not God or Jesus.
So it isn't just secular society that is selling Jesus down the Via Dolorosa.
