Don't you blaspheme in here.....DON'T YOU BLASPHEME IN HERE !!!!

[marmar]

$1 for anyone who gets the 80s pop culture reference in the subject line. :)



via AlterNet:




Comment Is Free / By Stephen Tomkins

Christian Right Group Tries to Kill Comedy Central Show About Jesus
Do you know who was the first person in Christian history to be executed for blasphemy? Jesus.

June 11, 2010 |


A new organization has been formed by the US religious right to attack a program that hasn't yet reached pilot stage. JC, a Comedy Central cartoon about Jesus trying to live a normal life in New York, does not have a completed script, but Citizens Against Religious Bigotry (Carb) are calling on advertisers to force the channel to abort it.

Carb, starchier than your average lobbyists, are particularly exercised by the contrast with the way Comedy Central backed down on airing scenes involving Muhammad in South Park, fearing violence. "Does that indicate that Christians then are punished because they aren't crazy?" asked the talk show host and Carb Michael Medved.

So censorship goes pre-emptive, a TV show doesn't even have to be made in order to offend, and the duty to protect the unborn has no relevance to works of creativity. I suppose it's not so big a leap as all that to banning things that don't exist yet for those who devote their careers to banning things they haven't seen.

Religion is all about mystery, and nothing is so mysterious as the minds of the professionally offended. One mystery is what kind of God they serve.

He is said to be Almighty, and yet desperately needs sticking up for. His emotional maturity is not the subject of any creeds but surely something you would assume of the perfect source of all being, if it weren't for his total inability to take any joke featuring himself (or sex for that matter). He tells his followers to turn the other cheek if they are assaulted themselves, but if people make fun of him expects his followers to hit them where it hurts. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/media/147148/christian_right_group_tries_to_kill_comedy_central_show_about_jesus/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Cultural citation: Aretha Franklin in "The Blues Brothers" to Elwood and Jake Blues in her

restaurant. The Blues Brothers

[marmar]

2. Winner.

Here you go:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. yeah...that's an easy one :-)

for some of us...too bad I was brewing coffee and was not here to jump on that!

sP

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. The first episode is about the Melting Jesus statue

that burned up in a lighting strike......

I WISH.....LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

4. That is what came to my mind first also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTBFPte-MY&feature=related

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Oh Lord!

[TexasObserver]

6. The cartoon will be closer to the real Jesus than the caricature the right has of him.

The right believes in Buddy Jesus - a Republican, an accountant, living in Georgia. He appreciates civil war reeactments, but he calls it "the War of Northurn A-ggresshun." He makes a good living, because that's what his father in heaven wants for good Republichristians.

[EXneoCON]

7. We're on a Mission from God, Ma'am...

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Like the guy they caught in Pakistan with a sword..who was going to catch bin Laden..

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1104ap_as_pakistan_bin_laden_hunter.html

Pakistan: US bin Laden hunter on mission from God

ISLAMABAD -- An American construction worker detained in Pakistan while on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden claimed Wednesday that he was obeying an order from God to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Pakistani security officials.

Gary Brooks Faulkner said God revealed the order in one of his dreams, prompting him to travel to Pakistan in search of al-Qaida's leader, said two security officials, one of whom is part of a team of investigators questioning the American.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Catching bin Laden was 50-year-old Faulkner's passion, his brother Scott Faulkner said. A devout Christian with a prison record, Faulkner has been to Pakistan at least six times, learned some of the local language, and even grew a long beard to blend in, relatives and acquaintances said.

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