Posted on 12/28/2005 1:12:12 PM PST by FerdieMurphy
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. bishops blasted a recent episode of the cable television comedy "South Park" that he said showed Mary in "a tasteless and ugly fashion."
In a Dec. 14 letter to Tom Freston, co-president and chief operating officer of Viacom International, parent company of Comedy Central, the cable channel that shows "South Park," Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said the channel showed "extreme insensitivity" in choosing to show the episode.
The episode, which first was shown Dec. 7 and had repeat showings in the week following, was titled "Bloody Mary." During the episode, a "South Park" character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a bodily orifice of a Virgin Mary statue.
When Pope Benedict XVI investigates in the show, he declares that she was merely menstruating. The episode's premiere date came the day before the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation for Catholics.
You're a complete and total liar. Proven once again by your own posts on this thread.
Ok...you win.
All I got was that I live in Utah...was married to a member of the L.D.S. Church....and had a dog.
Yours IS tough to top!!!(grin)
redrock
Actually, TX Eagle... "Menstruating-American" = Very funny! I like that!
Can't let you get away with that distortion. The vulgarity that is the hallmark of this show is STRAIGHT out of the 60s. Marx Bros lampooned, but no obscenity, no vulgarity. It was the 60s - and all the destructive ideas that they ushered in - that made vulgarity and obscenity fashionable. South Park is riding that wave, and a lot of freepers - themselves children of the 60s, or children of 60s children - are robotically applauding the vulgarity (and, in good 60s fashion, condeming anyone who doesn't as "uptight"). Far out, man.
Lot of imbeciles in the world, it seems.
Some of whom appreciate irreverent satire, and some who simply condemn things they know nothing about.
I like that first kind, myself. ;-)
The core belief behind South Park is that children aren't born pure and righteous but then twisted by society. Rather, it is the job of the parents and society to mold them into good people. Kid's aren't the example for society to follow, rather they are the ones for which parents and society should be setting the example for them to follow.
Left to themselves or the twisted "village" most kids are raised in today, they become little Cartmens. The show is meant as a "scared straight" for parents rather than an influence for kids.
The kid with the most normal family is the most normal kid. The kid with the single parent whore mother is pure evil, the kid with parents on welfare gets killed every episode, and the kid whose parents are too strict and controlling is neurotic.
They don't need to be vulgar to be funny, they are vulgar for the purpose of demonstration: let the village raise your kids and this is the result. South Park isn't saying "let your kids do this", it's saying that if you don't do your job as parents this is what they'll do.
lest, not let. Yikes.
Yes, scrawling anti war grafittie on government property really helps the war effort /sarcasm.
I don't follow this accusation. The show always shows Jesus in a positive light and Jesus always wins in his struggles against the evil in the world. As far as I can tell (and I do watch the show), South Park is very supportive of Christianity as a religion.
What they are intolerant of is holier-than-thou blowhards and religious hypocrites, and rightly so. If you find that offensive, then you might be a "religious hypocrite" or "holier-than-thou blowhard".
Yes it would; a continent life within marriage, since both the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph were subject to the oral law of Kiddushin. St. Joseph was prepared to put the Blessed Mother away privately because he knew he was not the father of her unborn child. It's ludicrous to hypothesize that once St. Joseph was made aware that the Father of her child was the Holy Ghost he would even anticipate a conjugal life with the Blessed Mother who herself was a consecrated virgin. To engage in conjugal relations after the birth of Jesus would have made both of them adulterers. It simply didn't happen.
Linguistic literalists like yourself cherry pick Scripture thinking they've found the smoking gun proving that the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth to other children. In the process you neglect to provide the quotes from Scripture in which the words brother, sister, brethren mother and father are used to describe people with no biological relationship whatsoever. These people have a very poor comprehension of Scripture, Jewish customs, Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. None of which is surprising in a world of moral relativists.
Another Sixties-ism. The ultimate Leftist put-down for people who stand up for traditional values. Even today, cultural Leftists use it against Bush. So you're in bad company, but I'm not surprised.
lol.....oh sorry.
Can you believe this crap??? :-)
How LOW will they GO?
>> It was the 60s - and all the destructive ideas that they ushered in - that made vulgarity and obscenity fashionable. South Park is riding that wave, and a lot of freepers - themselves children of the 60s, or children of 60s children - are robotically applauding the vulgarity (and, in good 60s fashion, condeming anyone who doesn't as "uptight"). Far out, man.<<
A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Winston Churchill
Or "Team America".
Dirka dirka jihad dirka
"Christianity is blasphemed, but not other religions."
"That is not surprising to me. No one I know is interested in toilet-bowl humor anyway."
Is it surprising to you that you're wrong?
Mary only had one child, his name was Jesus, she was a virgin the day she was born and she was one the day she died.
I am just used to saying "he" in referring to people (training by an old school English teacher who still demanded that. She retired last year) that sometimes I don't think.
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