Check out this nauseating postcard a pastor sent for Easter (warning: upsetting):
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WMBF News spoke to Lead Pastor Kevin Childs who said the message was entirely his idea. Childs continued that the idea behind the message was to get people to think about the reason for the Easter season, and not the commercial aspect of candy and bunnies.
"We hope to get people's attention," Childs said during an interview. "It was a calculated risk. Are we willing to offend some to get the attention of other folks who have no regard for Jesus, the church, the gospel or Easter? That's a risk a we're always willing to take."
Childs said while the message may be offensive to some, he believes it is far more offensive to change the focus of Easter from Jesus Christ to a bunny.
Christian Church of Myrtle Beach Youth Pastor Matthew Wilson said he understands the message Childs tried to convey, but believes there was probably a more tactful way to present it. Every year, Christian Church puts on a reenactment of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, an admittedly graphic scene, Wilson said, but one that the church does not force people to view.
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http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/17343100/another-local-church-shocks-with-easter-service-invite?clienttype=printable
That man needs help!
Jesus would kick his butt to Hell and back and down again!
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that had a hand print on the inside with what was supposed to be blood splattered on the center of the palm.
"Remember the reason for the season" was printed beneath it.
Really put me in jolly mood. 
through with the christmas card from hell. I'm a Christian but I have to tell you that what these people are doing is so alien to me that it's beyond trying to understand or describe. Horrific! 
...and I was a Christian at the time myself, albeit not one who fit into my friend's definition of "Christian" (conservative, evangelical, doctrinaire, etc.)
Although I'm a Unitarian Universalist now with a more-or-less humanistic/Eastern philosophical bent, I still draw deeply from the Gospel Jesus preached (the one in the Beatitudes and in what he said about loving God with everything you are, and loving your neighbor as you love yourself...and who is my neighbor? Everyone, especially those "Samaritan" outsiders I'm supposed to hate). It is a powerful message at its heart, one that did indeed change my life for the better.
