"South Park" goes after Catholic leader

Orlando Sentinel ^ | Apr 5, 2007 8:33:51 AM

[ecurbh]

The folks at "South Park" take no prisoners.

Consider Wednesday's episode, which went after Bill Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Donohue has been a severe critic of the animated series on Comedy Central.

The episode mixed Easter and "The Da Vinci Code" in typically wacky fashion. The plot involved the current pope and Jesus. The story ended with Jesus cutting Donahue in half with a flying ninja blade.

In other recent controversies, Donohue has called the co-creators of "South Park," Matt Stone and Trey Parker, whores and cowards.

[Larry Lucido]

Regarding your tagline and Officer Barbrady, did you also get thrown for a loop when he makes Atlas Shrugged the first book he ever reads (one of my favs), then seconds later trashes it? LOL! They take NO prisoners!

[sully777]

In Europe, the church authorities cut off the hand of the offender and put their works to the fire....

Sorry, I meant to say the church authorities instructed the state to prosecute all offenses. However, many church authorities were also temporal rulers so the distinction was hard to discern.

[lesser_satan]

You forgot Manbearpig.

[socrates_shoe]

> Why, what went on in the onion dip ad?

Apparently, it “showed a picture of a man waiting in line for Holy Communion holding a bowl of Lipton’s onion dip.”

http://americamagazine.org/gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=1588&issueID=361

Tasteless, yes. An “atrocity”? Methinks someone’s cilice is wound a tad too tight...

[sully777]

You know, I never watched Manbearpig.

[lesser_satan]

Just out of curiosity, how many episodes have you watched?

[SlowBoat407]

In 20 years, they'll be embarrassed to admit they ever watched the show. Kind of like people who used to watch The Monkees.

I LOVED that show! Still do, in fact.

[firebrand]

Television is more than a wee bit different. The medium is the message. It is designed with billions of dollars to simulate real life, to be totally entrancing, to be addictive in fact. It is seen by billions, all watching the same drug. It is extremely powerful, much more so than a pamphlet or 99% of books.

I think it was Orwell who said that people would eventually find television a stronger, more compelling reality than their own lives. Thus those who rush home from real-life functions or interrupt phone calls because their favorite show is going on. It's our worst addiction as a society. And dangerous too, as we now see with the growing anti-Christian bias everywhere on the slimy, greedy little screen.

Step away, as I did when my daughter was born (although I was never really a true addict), and you will see by the apparent grayness of your life that it has taken over your mind.

[lesser_satan]

You have to see it. It’s top five hands down.

[justshutupandtakeit]

And it was Peter Rabbit in the Last Supper. Now we know.

[sully777]

Step away, as I did when my daughter was born (although I was never really a true addict), and you will see by the apparent grayness of your life that it has taken over your mind.

the apparent grayness of my life...hokay...

[firebrand]

I dare you to try it. People can’t even do it for one week.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The show was principally bashing the Da Vinci Code nonsense and ridiculed Donahue as being more Catholic than the Pope and more “Christian” than Christ. Since I think he is a creep I laughed.

[lesser_satan]

Here's another one

[uglybiker]

I dare you to try it. People can’t even do it for one week.

I can go for weeks and not turn the darn thing on.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Don’t confuse “fun” or “humor” with “childishness”. We no longer live in the day when “heretics” were burnt at the stake by a Church claiming to be Christian. Can you even imagine Christ defending such a practice? And Protestants perpetrated such horrors as well. Neither were following Christ’s religion.

[mnehring]

Apparently, it “showed a picture of a man waiting in line for Holy Communion holding a bowl of Lipton’s onion dip.”

I find it more of an atrocity the number of churches that have replaced wine with grape juice in Communion and even say 'juice' instead of wine..

[justshutupandtakeit]

How can you be a Christian don’t you know they are not allowed to laugh?

[mjolnir]

Are you trying to imply that people who are religious tend not to enjoy watching South Park? That would be pretty silly. Pretty much everyone watches South Park; it’s the only show on Comedy Central that people do watch (much).

Hey, I was annoyed and continue to be annoyed that they made William Donahue out to be such an evil punk and made such simplistically dogmatic criticisms of the Papacy. At the same time, the episode was pretty funny, especially the “double cross” line. Just because I like South Park doesn't mean I have to agree with everything in it.

The same goes for my opinion of William Donahue. Anyone who saw him on the Colbert Report (I realize that’s in the single digits) knows he actually has a pretty good sense of humor. He’s in the business of criticizing the glorification of blasphemy and attacks on his religion-— sometimes, like Matt and Trey, he goes over the line because, as with their occupation, his carries that sort of occupational hazard.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Apparently you have not seen the two parter regarding Mo. It was funnier with his cartoon “censored” than with it not. In fact, it was hilarious to watch the whole town burying their heads in the sand.

And it was also very clear that the insanity of Islam was WHY CC acted as it did. Then having al Queda spokesmen doing critiques of Family Guy very funny. And Bush in a news conference with totally idiotic pressitutes asking why HE wouldn’t stop the show from showing Mo.