Posted on 12/09/2005 5:50:13 AM PST by NYer
Catholic League president Bill Donohue remarked today about last night’s episode of “South Park” (it will run again for the next three nights):
“A ‘South Park’ character gets a DWI and is ordered to attend AA meetings. Told about the 12-step program, he concludes that he needs a miracle to cure him. The plot then focuses on a statue of the Virgin Mary who is ‘bleeding out her ass.’ The Vatican dispatches a cardinal to investigate and he is sprayed with blood when he walks behind the statue. He then declares this to be a miracle, which draws even more people. The alcoholic, now in a wheelchair, is also sprayed with blood: he then claims he is cured and jumps out of his seat.
“Pope Benedict XVI goes to investigate. He, too, is sprayed with blood when he walks behind the statue. A reporter says, ‘The pope investigated further and determined that the statue was not bleeding out its ass, but its vagina.’ To which the pope replies: ‘A chick bleeding out her vagina is no miracle. Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.’
“Comedy Central is a subsidiary of MTV, which is owned by Viacom. On the board of directors of Viacom is a practicing Catholic and a distinguished public servant, Joseph A. Califano; he served under Presidents Johnson and Carter. We are writing to him today requesting that he intervene in this matter. We want a) an apology to Roman Catholics and b) a pledge that this episode be permanently retired and not be made available on DVD. In the event Viacom does not cooperate, we are asking Mr. Califano to issue his own statement of condemnation. We are asking our members to contact him as well. Remember, they chose to insult Our Blessed Mother on the eve of the Immaculate Conception, and the holy day itself.
“Joseph A. Califano is chairman of the board of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. He can be reached at CASA, 633 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017; phone, 212-841-5200; fax, 212-956-8020; email, employment@casacolumbia.org.”
And sometimes they mock serious people because they know there is a market for it and no danger. It is called cynicism.
People of all major faiths should take offense at this episode - Catholics and other Christians, because it offends the Mother of God; Jews, because Maryam was a Jew and Muslims, because they also treasure Mary.
I'd bid ;~D
Donohue sometimes focuses on truly outrageous stuff and sometimes he just seems to be trying to one-up Abe Foxman.
What?
If Mary is the "mother of God" then who is the father? The milkman?
Funny how libertarians manage to get their dander up when someone brings reality into a situation. Fact is that there are some words and actions are that unacceptable. There are satirists who risk their lives. Voltaire or even a Rushie. These guys risk nothing.
yeah, to me, what did your font get out of control?
I don't try to tell others what to watch.
I turned it off.
Only the dojo scene was close to funny.
With all due respect to my Catholic relatives and friends, there are more important fights out there than the toilet humor of South Park. Besides, ex-Catholic Trey Parker was even more irreverent when mocking the Vatican in the pedophile priest episode.
Mary is the Mother of God if Jesus is divine . It is really a formula arising from the Christological controversies of the 4th and fifth Centuries.
When do the Catholics complain about South Park? When Jesus is made fun of or God is mocked? No. They only speak out when MARY is mocked. Very, very telling about who is worshipped by the Church of Rome, and it is not Christ. I am simply blown away and can't think of a much better example of where the heretical heart of the Catholic really is placed.
Lighten up about South Park. It is a great show. Oh, and Mary didn't die a virgin. Tough words? Deal with it. You can rip me right back if you want; I really do not care. If you go whining abuse on this post, you just show you don't have much of a skin for criticism.
I'm not arguing with you. You turned it off, and if you didn't like it that was the appropriate response. I appreciate that you didn't offer to hold a Muslim's coat while they slit the throats of Parker and Stone.
South Park is only ONE battle out there. Those who largely control the common culture are doing everything they can to discredit the symbols of Christianity. There are ways to attack truly superstitious religious practices, but the authors of South Park have no business even trying. They would not if they didn't know that the powers that be will let them get away with almost anything that serves to discredit religion. But you are not going to see Al Jaz running South Park episodes that deal with Islam.
It's the whole "Arab mind" thing, with the "honour" and the "face", and the "very snall penis"
Parker and Stone were not guilty of open blasphemy.
no, only his towel.
You're talking about holding coats for Muslims while they slit someone's throat because you're angry over a television show you didn't see that depicted a cartoon statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding, yet you somehow think you've brought reality into a situation?
LOL. Why are you still trying?
Oh good grief.
Jesus wasn't divine. He was a hippie who rebelled against a bloody and oppressive government. As a result, he convinced other hippies to follow him, until the Roman government made him a dead hippie. Then the others turned it into a hippie cult that would have gone nowhere if Emperor Constantine hadn't embraced it. Constantine shaped Christian beliefs 300 years after Jesus was a dead hippie on a stick.
Jesus preached peace and love, and if he were alive today, conservatives would trash him as a kooky liberal pacifist.
I see this thread is filled with morons who either don't watch the show and are JUDGING based on that or those that ENTIRELY MISSED THE JOKE.
FR is full of them, so I shouldn't be surprised.
I mean after all there was a 100 post thread about a stupid motto on a BURGER KING CUP.
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