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It's not that all Christians are crazy, it's just that the religion seems to give certain types of crazy people a chance to shine. These are the ones who can't worry about the homeless because they're too busy doing things like decoding secret gay propaganda in cartoons. Here are some of the more baffling things these messengers from the Lord want us to be wary of: #7.
Starbucks Labels
Proving not all tiny, pointless special interest groups are devoid of charm, a Christian group called "The Resistance" decided to protest the new logo at Starbucks by referring to the coffee chain by the hilarious nickname "Slutbucks," which kind of sounds like coupons for a strip club.
The story is that Starbucks cranked out a new logo, it's the one up there that has a topless mermaid that looks kind of like Helen Hunt, with her legs spread (which we realize makes no sense since it's a fish tail, but apparently no one at Starbucks majored in art or mythology) and this enraged The Resistance, who may or may not actually just be one insane man (Mark Dice) and his website. Because Slutbucks is clearly such a blasphemous monster of an organizations, however, they've also been protested by Concerned Women for America, a group that feels one of the random quotes on the side of a Starbucks coffee cup is pretty much Satan in memorable quote form.
The above quote (about an author's own experiences repressing his sexuality) is apparently Starbucks' way of furthering the homosexual agenda. That's where it starts, in coffee houses. Then it expands into fast food, the Post Office, and finally the White House until the day we're all required to punch into work in the morning not with a pass key or by logging onto a computer, but with 15 straight minutes of sodomy. Thank you, Concerned Women for America, for finally drawing the line. #6.
Chocolate Sculptures of Himself
If someone were to make a giant chocolate statue of your naked body, you'd probably be flattered, and maybe a little weirded out. Jesus, on the other hand, was just plain furious. According to Catholics, who enjoy chocolate bunnies at Easter, He has no tolerance for chocolate, naked statues at any time of year. A New York art exhibit cleverly titled "My Sweet Jesus" featured a 200lb milk chocolate Jesus on the cross, sans loincloth and showing off all his sacred bits in their chocolatey glory. Much like with the film the Last Temptation of Christ, the idea of a nudie savior just doesn't go over well with some folks. The head of the Catholic League called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever," which is not an understatement at all, as long as you ignore everything else bad that has happened anywhere in the world over the last two thousand years.
Being loving and pious folks intent on expressing how their sensibilities were offended in a calm and mature fashion, the local Christian populace deluged the art gallery with angry phone calls and death threats. The result was the gallery canceling the exhibit and the creative director resigning his position in protest. But on the upside for offended Christians, they were able to go about the rest of their lives content with the knowledge that nudity doesn't exist, at least not in a public, milk chocolate way. We believe the artist, despondent over the events, retired to his apartment and ate the entire statue over the course of a long, lonely weekend. #5.
Spongebob
You may or may not be aware of this, but Spongebob Squarepants is apparently as queer as a three dollar bill jammed in Richard Simmons' thong. And while that's all fine and good as long as aquatic, animated poriferans keep their sexuality behind closed doors, once they start making pro-homosexual videos, certain groups aren't going to stand for it. Both Focus on the Family and the American Family Association complained about a Spongebob video that was delivered to schools in which Spongebob has the balls to try to teach children to be accepting of others. Now you know Jesus isn't going to stand for that shit. Even though the video never actually mentions homosexuality, on the website for the video's producers they include a pledge of tolerance for all races, cultures, beliefs and, yes, sexual orientations. Just like Hitler. Or the opposite of Hitler. Whatever, fuck that cartoon sponge!
The brain trust at Focus on the Family felt that the video was "an insidious means by which the organization is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids." The video does feature Spongebob dancing to We Are Family by Sister Sledge and probably few things in the world are apt to suck a child into a fugue-like state of dementia and suggestibility. So we kind of see what they were afraid of. #4.
Dr. Who
Probably all of us have secretly known Dr. Who was up to no good. What the hell is a Tardis machine anyway? Why do the English have phone booths that apparently travel through time? What was with that fancy scarf he wore in the original series and where'd they get off replacing the actor who played the doctor like five times? Crazy Brits. To make Dr. Who slightly more insane, there was an episode, co-starring Kylie Minogue, in which the doctor has to save the Titanic, which is now a space ship, from a meteor accident. And somewhere in all that, he sort of parallels a Christ figure.
While it sounds perfectly protestable on grounds of stupidity, it was actually protested by the group Christian Voice because they thought it was tasteless to compare the time-traveling doctor to the messiah. Why protesters chose Dr. Who as opposed to Neo, Luke Skywalker, Superman or every other sci-fi character that has been loosely based on Christ is anyone's guess, but we assume it has something to do with Daleks. |
Man, they DID ban Harry Potter from our school. Its completely retarded. Its magic and FANTASY! So, basically, these f*****g adults, who were RAISED watching Disney movies just like us, think that Disney and all things fantasy, is now evil.
You wanna know whats evil? Terrorists that f*****g blow us up with BOMBS. You know, bombs, the very REAL explosions that have nothing MAGICAL about them? I have yet to see a wizard, werewolf, vampire, or evil monster god who wants the one ring.
Haven't seen God or Satan either. Could there be a connection!?
Is there anything that DOESN'T offend one christian or another? Seems to me that everything offends someone, the trick is to let it go and be tolerant of other people's points of view. Which, of course, christians (as a rule- I'm generalizing) are not.
I feel the sentiments of most of these comments. I, as a real Christian, am sickened by all the fakes to the point I quit going to Church. I, to the best of my abilities, follow the word of Jesus and I'm pretty sure He has a problem with the 90 percent of the "christians" who twist things around and give His followers a bad image. I don't try to "convert" people either. When you see me on the street you'll just get the impression that I'm a good guy from the vibe I give off and you'll only get my opinion if you ask for it. So there you have it. There are a lot of us, but you only hear about the evil people claiming to be religious. You don't hear about people like me because we're not entertaining.
I thought all schools had an equivalent of "wacky week"?
Our school has that the week of homecoming. They have different dress-up days.. including "opposite sex day" and "thug day" .. we live in Iowa so "thug day" doesn't get us shot or offend anyone.
Oh, and Senor - the funny part is, Christian's get that whole "BEING GAY IS AGAINST GOD" thing from a passage in the old testament. Of course, the old testament isn't even their book (It's the Jewish book), so I don't understand why they care.
If they cared enough to follow their own religious rules, they'd realize that in the new testament (the christian part of the bible) Jesus said to love everyone and treat them how you'd want to be treated.
Guess that message got lost in translation somewhere.
I guess brainwashing is fine as long as you're brainwashing kids to believe what you want them to believe.
I don't understand what the big deal is about Spongebob. Yeah, he acts gay in quite a few of the episodes, but most innuendo goes right over kid's heads (Case in point, all the adult-oriented jokes in the Shrek movies. I doubt a lot of kids in the theater caught those).
Oh, for f**k's sake, being gay is NOT A SIN. Even if you buy into the God stuff, and I bloody well don't, it is pretty well established that sexuality is in the main biologically determined. You are, basically, born with one degree of h**o or
heterosexuality or another. You don't have a choice...if you got the lottery ticket that says 'Mostly gay;, you are almost certainly GOING TO BE GAY WHEN YOU REACH PUBERTY. Upbringing and societal influences play a part, but the point is - if it is not a choice, it is not a sin. So, God wants gays to be gay, apparently.
Lemme tell you...I have three best pals, my trio of compadres. One is homosexual, and he is more like what Christians profess to be than any actual Christian I have ever met. He told me once, on the single occasion when I gave enough of a s**t about who he likes to kiss to ask him if he feels gayness is a choice: "Why the f**k would anyone CHOOSE to be q***r? Oh yeah, all that hate from Jesus freaks and rugbyheads makes it a thrill ride, let me tell ya. They really think I woke up one morning and thought: Nahhh, stuff fancying women, I think I'll alienate myself from my parents and turn my own life into a prolonged hell? by deciding to like dicks?"" Hard to argue with that logic.
"Christians" who openly hate homosexuals are commiting a sin the same as being gay. I am of the Christian faith and I know that all sins are equal. I love my homosexual brothers and sisters the same way I love the heterosexual ones.
I wish that "Christians" would realize that when they hate other cultures, shove one religion down their throats, and catagorize sins, all they are doing is driving away those who are not of the Faith.
AND not everyone is the same. So when you catagorize all Christians as right-wing conservative, homophobes, and ulitimately boring, you are wrong.
I'm not against all Christians, but I've actually gotten metal scraps, rocks, whatever's lying around thrown at me by the 'Christian Club', a Christian teacher was almost able to fail me out of one of my classes (Because I'm openly gay) and Christians beat my head in so hard that I now have chronic amnesia. That's how nice and loving Christians are... And Christianity (In it's early years and now, even) can be termed as a cult. (Oh, I wanted to put 'c**t' there so bad...) 'Jesus Camp'- the scariest thing you will ever see. You chant 'Words of God' over and over again for about five minutes, it's "prayer". (Read the Brainwashing article, yet?) I've heard a 6-year-old child actually ask his mother why won't "God just kill all the gays", and have a 12-year-old try to actually stab me when he saw the pentacle I wear. So isn't it kind of scary that right-wing conservatives are trying to make everyone like that?
Post Script: I want a chocolate Jesus. Do you still bite the head off first or the ears?
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I am a proud Christian. Still, I seriously can't stand some of these insane, uptight, hypocritical, morons that make the rest of us look the same.
Most of us Christians are actually pretty cool. The crazies just happen to have the loudest voices :P.
I want a chocolate Jesus too!
Seriously, that artist could make a fortune if they marketed miniatures! :D
I'm not surprised about Harry Potter, having seen "Jesus Camp" - and that's some scary s**t there! - but am kinda bummed that Doctor Who didn't make it higher on the list...
Seriously, 50+ years flouting the christian right-wing fundies should come to more than #4. :D And the Doctor has been a christ figure for far longer than Russel T Davies has been writing for the show. Probably since before Davros became the satanic figure, which goes back to the mid '70's.
I knew when I saw that scene where the Doctor is lifted up by the angels in the Ep mentioned above that they would get the Fundies' collective paties in a bigger knot than the show has ever done before - it's like they've been poking them with a dimesionally trancendental stick since "The Satan Pit". It was just asking for protests. LOL, look at the way he comes walking out of the fire with his hands held like a catholic portrait of christ, then raises them like he's about to be crucified! Absolutely perfect symbolism. Love it!
It's "Time and Relative Dimensions In Space", not "Distance". But then, I'm a whovian geek, so whatever.
If Fiction and Art can throw someone's faith into so much tutmult, then the people who feel threatened need to question what the basis for their faith is - it can't be anything too concrete if imagination can so easily threaten their minds and souls. I pity those people.
Spiritualism is the good stuff. Organized Religion is just as dangerous a game as politics, and thus is plagued by the same evils. Organized Religion is old world and needs to be outgrown like many of the other limiting ideals we lived with for the last thousand years.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain and the view is the same. The seven deadly sins have to be permitted if there is to be peace in the world. There are different strokes for different folks. Tolerance to all behavior must be the holy word. God Bless America the land of the free.
He's not the one killing them, so apparently Mr. Christ doesn't really mind.
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Jesus hates it when people suck and f**k each other in the woods.
Who really gives a s**t about Starbucks, just a crappy coffee place.
I'd be kind of scared if a giant naked statue of chocolate was built of myself, maybe you're not seeing the whole picture as to why a naked chocolate statue may sound disturbing. If I had a naked marble statue of myself made, I'd be fine with it.
Spongebob has a lot of gay innuendos that you start noticing once you've been told it has a lot of gay innuendos.
I've never watched Dr. Who.
The attack on the Coca-Cola ads was fundamentalists overreacting, at least that's how I would see it, I would never see that ad as having an inverted cross.
I don't know if I want to go into the vaguest detail of a school with a day encouraging kids to be cross-dressers. I will never go to Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
Harry Potter isn't even that good of a series.
Thanks joe for trash talking an entire state based on you experiences in one city that I can tell you personally does not represent the rest of the state. First of all the town that you are talking about is not the one with the "worst drug problems per capita." That's a county in the northern part of the state and it's specifically heroin overdoses per capita. Second of all, I've lived here my whole life and have never once heard one shred of evidence to support your AIDS rate claim. Third of all, you obviously never ventured very far from the base, because there are whole communities full of people who would burn you for calling them "religious whack bags." I would be one of them. To sum it all up, bite me d-bag.
you misspelled catholic genius.
One thing I have always loved about the Cathlic's is even thought in one breath they claim that God loves everyone no matter what your sin, then they say God hates gays and magick and those who don't follow his religon and anyone who questions His word. It's so nice to know that God loves us all as long as we don't rock the boat and try to think for ourselves.
Also, it doesn't make you smarter.
They really are all out to get you.
Let's ruin Disney again!
These bums are better than you.
Being pale and bored does not make you a vampire.
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