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Thursday December 28, 2006
Went to a fun party at a hunting camp down by the creek tonight. Met a woman there who makes pinatas. She made one this year of the Baby Jesus. People were startled. Can you imagine, someone said, beating the...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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...Ms. Pinata's logic seems sound, but it still sounds blasphemous to me. I say she starts making King Herod pinatas instead.
God bless.>
Whiskey.
Tango.
Foxtrot.
This is by far one of the most surreal posts we've seen from you, Rod. :-)>
Being in Louisiana can do that to ya.
I grew up in St. John the Baptist Parish, and lemme tell ya - we're some pretty wacky folk :)>
King Herod pinata YES!>
"He emptied Himself...." but not quite like =that=, I'll wager.
My candidates for pinata-hood:
The Mayor of New Orleans
Ms. Landrieu
FEMA--they know who they are....>
Did she make flagrums to pass out to the children to beat the Jesus pinata with?>
At first glance, the baby Jesus pinata seems...odd.
But then, some of the Christmas wrapping paper we had this year featured lovely images of the Holy Family...which meant, in the reality of children on Christmas morn, that the Holy Family got ripped to shreds.
Still, the violence used to destroy a pinata, directed at the Christ Child...hmmm.
Let's just say I prefer the pinata my children whacked the heck out of at an All Saint's Day party this year, which had seven cones representing the seven deadly sins. Take that, pride and envy and anger and sloth and.... :)>
C'mon Rod, don't leave us hanging. Tell us about the sex-change at the nuclear plant. At least tell us if it was voluntary or some sort of radiation accident. :+)
Kim M>
A Baby Jesus pinata is perfectly acceptable so long as it's filled with Neco wafers (the ideal "host" when you play "communion").>
Necco wafers rule. It's very sad that I didn't get any for Christmas. You don't see them in stores that much, at least around here.>
Make an Elton John pinata and see what happens.>
I'd suggest she make a Mohammed pinata, but I wouldn't her to feel responsible if folks in Afghanistan, Iran, or all the Arabic or North African countries started burning and rioting...>
How about the Saddam pinata? Don't whack at it. Just leave it hanging...
;-)>
This seems like a stupid thing to get in a twist over. Everything nowadays is considered blasphemous by somebody. The icons in your church are blasphemous to some people. Writing the word "God" is blasphemous to some people. Speaking ill of the dead (one of your specialties) is blasphemous to a lot of people.
It was obvious this woman didn't mean any harm by it. She chose to put her skills to use for a Christmas celebration. Who cares if some people don't think it's appropriate?>
Alison, do you see me having a hissy fit over it? I was just passing along a funny anecdote.>
From your post, it sounds like quite a few were having hissy fits.>
"Startled" does not equal "having hissy fits.">
Crikey, Rod... why then does the link (on the main page) to this post say,
What's a blasphemous pinata?>
As a mom to three, I've never understood the Dora or Batman pi atas. Would kids really whack the heck out of their beloved cartoon characters? At my son's fourth birthday party, knights and dragons were the theme. We got a dragon pi ata, dressed the kids in capes and they took turns attacking it with a sword. That made sense. When my older daughter turned three, we had a Madeline party, but I can't imagine hanging Madeline in effigy and giving the kids a baguette (?) to obliterate her with.
If I wouldn't do that to Madeline, I'm not about to do it to Baby Jesus.
P.S. Didn't Pedro almost get kicked out of school for making a pi ata that looked like his opponent and letting people take turns at it with a baseball bat in "Napoleon Dynamite"?>
If I wouldn't do that to Madeline, I'm not about to do it to Baby Jesus.
Sometimes a pinata is just a pinata...>
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As a mom to three, I've never understood the Dora or Batman pi atas. Would kids really whack. At my son's fourth birthday party.this is wonderful opinion.
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