Hazing and VBS
 

Since I couldn't find a thread to put this, I'm just going to make up my own! The other day at work a parent came in to get coin (I work at a bank) because at her kids' vacation bible school they were having a challenge. The different groups of kids each had pinatas. The group that had the heaviest pinata would win. What you may ask would they win? The kids win the opportunity of watching the PASTOR associated with their group drink a bottle of hot sauce!! When I voiced my alarm to the parent (the pastor could get really sick, etc) she stated matter of factly that "well, its a good thing you don't have kids that are attending this VBS"!!

Is it just me, or are they allowing hazing at a young age (and at a Christian bible camp even!)?! Or, is my hazing and risk management antennae overly sensitive?

I'm gonna have an aneurism. Now we're accusing vacation bible school's of hazing the pastors? I need to break something at the stupidity of our society.

Ber -- I'm not exactly sure how you think this is hazing at all.

Sure, it's an act where the pastor is inflicting pain on itself, and it's stupid. Hazing though? Nope.

I wouldn't go to your church though.

Are you serious?:rolleyes:

There are about 13,097,273 stories every year about principals/teachers doing silly things (kissing a pig, shaving their head etc) because this class or that won a competition. If the pastor(s) can stomach a bottle of hot sauce, rock on.

Besides, I think it's pretty impossible to haze yourself. The pastor's going to drink it on his own. I don't think the kids are going to hold him down and pour the hot sauce down his throat.

Uh yeah, ditto on that. This is like raising money so you get a local politician to kiss a pig or raising money so a teacher cuts his long hair (or shaves his head or dresses up like captain Jack Sparrow)

ETA: 33girl just owned me at typing :p

Was it a cute teacher? If so, that would be kinda hot.

Hot sauce is made of veggies and vinegar. There's nothing risky or harmful about it (except maybe a major case of heartburn), but I doubt he'd volunteer to do it if he was a wussie. Besides, they're probably using Louisiana or Texas Pete or something equally as lame. My almost 2 year old drinks out of my husband's habanero sauce bottle he leaves lying around and she gets ahold of it. Big deal.

Yeah. What's he gonna do, revoke the charter of his Sunday School?

Do they have double secret probation?

That's already in force. Seems they forced students to memorize Bible verses and repeat them in lineups.

This was especially true a Christmas time when they sometimes had to repeat them in front of the entire congregation.

They also had to learn special songs and sing them, too.

We had lineups for Confirmation in front of the whole church. I think I'm going to go back and sue the church I was raised in for hazing.;)

I'm pretty sure that I cried when I was baptized. The Church in fact was pouring water and oil on my head, dressing me up in a stupid baptismal gown, and drawing on my head with ashes.

I'm a victim of church hazing as well...

-- but I do think it made me a better person.

Probably most of us were hazed in church, but it can't be changed because it tradition!

Was anyone else made to stand in line and drink wine and eat stale crackers?

Or, worse yet, drink grape juice and pretend it's wine?

Yes, although I can't complain, because we have the option of wine or grapejuice, and we get FRESH pita-type bread.