Posted on 04/05/2007 6:39:17 AM PDT by 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.
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The show where everyone bought a Pious to save the planet and the huge Smug storm which hit all directly targeting the envirowhackos who were sniffing their own farts like fine wine.
Do fish swim?
The Head Lice episode also dealt with environmentalism just a couple of weeks ago.
They’ve rerun that episode several times. You don’t watch the show, do you?
“People” or SOME people. Just got back from a week in Ireland did not miss tv at all. Spent a month traveling the West last summer did not miss tv at all.
Most reasonable people use tv like they do any other entertainment medium. South Park is the ony program I try not to miss the rest is imminently miss-able.
Gotta agree with you there.
From what I've seen they've only ever bashed two religions: Mormonism and Scientology.
They've done plenty of hypocrite bashing in both Christian AND Muslim circles. And even there Muslims/Islam are treated much more harshly than Christians/Christianity.
Please.... If you can't see that something like that is deeply offensive to Catholics, you're dead from the neck up.
It was definitely a slam against those who see Mary or Jesus in things like grilled cheese sandwiches.
They weren’t even all that hard on Mormonism (except for the whole “stretching credibility, even for a religion” thing). They were very complimentary of the culture of family stability that Mormonism has created for its practitioners
I always love South Park, even when they trash Ayn Rand.
I think saying “the network” didn’t allow the showing of the Mo episode is one thing, but the subsequent airing of Christian episodes is another thing. I mean really how brave is it to go after Christians? Matt and Trey are these intrepid warriors, uncompromising and on the edge? Well, of course they are when their animated puerility is pointed towards Christians and others who won’t lop off their heads. When CC wouldn’t air the Mo episode they should have found another network, stopped all production on future episodes. After all, true warriors, intrepid and on the cutting edge as some claim them to be, surely aren’t afraid of Muslims, law suits and network execs are they?
Apparent grayness?! Wow you must have had a pretty sad life outside the tube. I’ve got a sexy wife, a pool, books, music, and a nearby bike path. No apparent grayness when I turn off the tube. Sure the TV CAN dominate your life if you let it, so can any other recreational activity, the key is to remember whose life it is and what’s supposed to dominate what.
Nice to see someone else remember Bill Hicks. He was a great comedian who died way too early.
LOL...oops..
. Our Lord declared Peter to be blessed, as the teaching of God made him differ from his unbelieving countrymen. Christ added that he had named him Peter, in allusion to his stability or firmness in professing the truth. The word translated to rock is not the same word as Peter, but is of a similar meaning. Nothing can be more wrong than to suppose that Christ meant the person of Peter was the rock. Without doubt Christ himself is the Rock, the tried foundation of the church; and woe to him that attempts to lay any other! Peter's confession is this rock as to doctrine. If Jesus be not the Christ, those that own him are not of the church, but deceivers and deceived. Our Lord next declared the authority with which Peter would be invested. He spoke in the name of his brethren, and this related to them as well as to himI look to the Word, not a man with a silly hat. I mean it's a cool hat and all but it doesn't mean a thing to me. And believe it or not, I'm still going to Heaven because of my faith in Christ
Predicting the future is hard. But I would say you are wrong. People might be ashamed they watched Jerry Springer or (hopefully) The Pussycat Dolls the Search for the Next Doll. Compared to those shows there is absolutely no reason to be ashamed by South Park. Who really knows how people will regard SP in the future, but I would guess it is much more fondly than you think.
No ... You're looking to Matthew Henry.
History proves me right. I'm not claiming that Matthew 16:18 suggests that the Roman Catholic Church is the one and only true church; I'm not suggesting that the papacy has any claim to being the link between man and God because it bases legitimacy of itself on Peter being the first Pope.
However, Christ said in Matthew 16:18 that he would build his church with Peter as its foundation. Transferring that to mean Peter's faith is, IMO, a splitting of hairs. History shows that Peter was the foundation of the Christian church, regardless of which hares you're splitting.
I also didn't make any references, implied or otherwise, about where you would be spending eternity.
My point remains: if indeed South Park does more to advance conservative values than anything else on television, then we should all kill our televisions.
South Park is juvenile fart jokes and offends purely for the sake of offending. Or, as in the case of last night's episode, for the sake of stroking Trey Stone and Matt Parker's egos.
I once stopped watching TV for five years straight. The only time I saw it was at a bar or such, or when a friend had it on in his house (no, I didn't camp out to watch, incidental viewing only).
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