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To: chuck_the_tv_out
So, when an attempt at humor happens to be based in an erroneous view of God, that constitutes an attack on God?

Surely you can see the difference between real blasphemy a la Martin Scorcese's "Last Temptation..." or the vile image "Piss Christ", and the humor of Monty Python.

Is The Maker of the platypus averse to a good-natured roasting? Think The Almighty's too thin-skinned to take a jovial ribbing now and again? God's big enough not to be small-minded about our human errors, even when we make them at His expense (and we DO make ALL of them at His expense, if you really think about it very deeply).

Python at least gets it right in God's line, "Of COURSE it's a good idea; I thought of it!" even if they do miss the truth at a couple of points.

I don't think YHVH's taking this as hard as you are.

Consider the meaning of I Cor. 5:19, "...that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them."

There, in a single sentence, is the ONLY reason that you, nor I nor anyone else on God's green Earth hasn't been summarily vaporized by the wrath of God upon he commission of our first, and least sin. Because of Christ, and for his sake, God ISN'T holding our sin against us AT THIS MOMENT, because His focus is not condemnation, but reconciliation.

Perhaps you might be gracious enough to afford Monty Python the benefit of God's stated mission.

34 posted on 05/15/2012 12:53:05 PM PDT by HKMk23 (GOPe 2012 MITT HAPPENS)
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To: HKMk23

You people are a riot.

I tell you about something I have, and it differs from your worldview 1 IOTA, so you are SOOOOO offended, and SOOOOO convicted, that you launch into a 10+ paragraph diatribe.

Just like when I said to a bunch of modern Christians I don’t want to celebrate halloween. I didn’t tell them what they had to do. I just said WHAT I DO.

And they get SOOOOO offended, they get SOOOOO convicted, that they do the same kind of thing as you.

Look, oh-so-gracious man. IT IS WRONG to display God as a dead-eyed cartoon. IT IS WRONG to use Jesus Christ as a swear, which is another part I cut. So I choose to cut those bits out.

If you are convicted by MY ACTIONS, don’t come to me crying about my “lack of grace”, when I didn’t even say one word about what you should do.


35 posted on 05/15/2012 1:18:17 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: HKMk23

By the way, is your name from the Terminator movies? I need to make versions of those movies without swears/blasphemy/etc. It is a very clever premise. It’s interesting to me how the later movies have very few swears compared to the 1st. In 1984, people expected all that profanity, but today they don’t. Which is an interesting inversion.


37 posted on 05/15/2012 1:28:48 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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