I got an email from a friend who I got to know while I was speaking at Niner’s Camp last year at Camp Sawtooth. She is a bright young girl who is really thinking theologically and asking some wonderful questions about her life and faith. She emailed me a few weeks ago and wanted me to post some pictures of this cross on my blog – so I asked if I could just put up her email she sent to me. So, be mindful that this is a guest-blog post when you are leaving comments. Anyway, here is her email:
My mom and I just got back from Hastings (movie rental store). Of course they have Easter stuff out already. In one corner with the "Passion" junk was… a chocolate cross.
I kid you not, right next to the cheerful Easter decorations there it was. It felt so wrong, Easter is supposed to be about miracles and another chance at life, Easter eggs are about new life and starting over. The cross just felt like it was saying, this holiday is just about being miserable because of all that Jesus did for us because we are not worth anything. (sort of like the movie "The Passion")
Not only that, but how degrading to have our central religious symbol be nothing more than something for pre-schoolers to eat on a holiday. Will we have bubble-gum crosses next? Is the cross just another way to sell products and make money?