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.
Sex???? You've GOT to be kidding!! :)
You sound pretty offended.
"South Parkers sure are a sensitive lot. They speak out of one side of their mouths how wonderful it is that South Park is so irrerevent, but out of the other side of their mouths they piss and moan that someone would speak so irreverently of South Park.
Weird."
You know this is not true. You're not being criticized for "offending" the "overly sensitive." You're being criticized for the style of your argument, juvenile name-calling, and purporting to criticize other people's intellects. There is a difference. I wonder if you can see it. Of course, it's easier to just make stuff up.
"Screw I'm you guys, going home"? :)
_I_ ain't tellin' 'em: THEY got GUNS.
It airs Wednesdays at 10:00 PM.
Why are your kids up so late?
Mine are in bed.
And even if they weren't, I assume the role of a parent, and censor those things I don't think they are old enough to watch on TV.
I control my TV dial, it doesn't control me.
Now, now. They don't use the F word on South Park.
So I've been told.
You could burst into flames if you hold it!
Provide me the passages from Scripture where the Blessed Mother gives birth to other children? You can't. Where were these other children during the search for Jesus while He was in the temple? Where were these other children during the Crucifixion? Why did Christ entrust the care of His mother to the son of Zebedee and Salome, the Apostle John, after chastising the Pharisees for abandoning their obligations regarding the care of their parents? Why would He have even bothered to mention this while dying on the cross if He knew that His "brothers and sisters", that you claim existed, were required to take care of His and "their" mother? You have no plausible answers to these questions.
The alleged perpetual celibate state of Joseph and Mary’s relationship is contrary to the divine ideal.
Nothing alleged nor contrary about it. You have failed to absorb the teachings of Christ regarding the sacrifice of self for the sake of the Kingdom of God. If a conjugal life constitutes "the divine ideal" then why did Jesus tell us:
"You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven." Matthew 22:29-30
Moses himself became celibate within marriage after God's call. If you knew anything about the oral law of Kiddushin, to which both St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother were subject to, you'd realize that a conjugal life between them would have been an adulterous one. St. Joseph was prepared to divorce the Blessed Mother because of her pregnancy until he learned that her child was conceived of the Holy Ghost, yet people like you want the world to believe he became an adulterer following the birth of Christ. God chose the Blessed Virgin Mary, with her agreement, to conceive, give birth, care for and raise the Word Incarnate, even though He knew she would engage in adultery following Christ's birth. Right! Just because you think that a conjugal life defines the worth of a marriage doesn't make it so. I can only imagine the relativist rationale you use to dismiss the celibate life, and teachings about same, of Christ and St. Paul.
The belief reeks of carry-over related Vestal Virgins of pagan Rome.
Your ignorance and disputation of the truth is a relatively recent exercise in the history of Christianity, Helvidius and a few others notwithstanding. The protestant "heroes" Luther, Calvin and Zwingli; often touted in the religion threads here as the ones who "got it right", amongst many others, categorically reject your attempt at revisionism. They all belived in and taught that the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth to a single child, Jesus Christ, and remained a perpetual virgin.
Your particular judgment will be interesting, to say the very least.
Thanks for playing "I'm ignorant of Scripture." Johnny, tell our loser what parting gifts he/she has won.
I suppose you're right ;~D
Let me just jump in here on the whole imbecile debate.
The main reason -- probably one of many -- that South Park fans tend to be intellectually challenged is that the show is predicated on random attacks of institutions, people etc. (both on the left and the right).
This is the kind of immature humor that has no real center. It assumes that nothing much matters because everything will pretty much always be the same. It's the kind of humor that's pretty typical of over-privileged suburban youth.
It's also very formulaic humor. They take an institution, attack a prominent feature -- essentially the easiest target -- then carry that attack a few steps over the line of good taste.
Of course, the rough edges are smoothed out in the last act of the episode by some light touch of "commonsense."
You are misinformed.
No, but as a "Southpark conservative", we're sure you're here to defend this godless immoral garbage.
There's nothing "conservative" about this crap. It's small humor for small minds.
oh man, now i really have to see this... i'm a roman catholic, also in recovery... this outta be good... : )
Oh...shut up. :)
You are misinformed.
I'm not surprised. These South Parkers can't seem to keep their stories straight.
Thanks for noticing.
p.s.
South Park isn't "dangerous humor" of the kind Sam
Kinison or Richard Pryor created. It's basically junior high school humor.
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