--Thou Shall Not Touch This
--Please, Maccabee, smite thee not
Posted on 12/13/2004 3:21:06 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Here is a site that has a comic strip about Campus Crusade. It's really funny if you know much about them.
http://www.whichcircle.com/
WACKY DOTS ARE BAD!
Precisely.
How come nobody else noticed this striking resemblance? And why a lawsuit? That is unbecoming of Christians (and unbiblical.)
Alex is growing a sense of humor. Rejoice! :-)
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He gotcha!
I reckon so...
I didn't even notice any hints at all that they weren't serious.
It's not that they're dumb.
This piece wasn't exactly a great piece of satire because it never achieved a level which was funny or outrageous. But there were enough clues in it to indicate it was satire long before the end of the article.
Are you kidding? This is a dead giveaway:
Gibson said in a brief phone conversation with THO. "I mean, sure, these people are excommunicate from the one true Church and don't adhere to the Pre-Vatican II beliefs necessary to attain eternal life with Christ, but at least their JESUS movie seemed to be moving people in the right direction."
Even Gibson's not whacked enough to say something like this.
I liked it. ;-D
As I mentioned on another thread, THO is fast becoming another of my guilty pleasures, along with South Park. Neither is a pinnacle of hilarity ALL the time, but they do well enough some of the time, and occasionally are so on-target that I'm happily surprised.
You're gonna smile....:>)....but I still don't get it.
Guys, this is a joke article. The "Holy Observer" is a humor site like The Onion is for newspapers.
"Here is a site that has a comic strip about Campus Crusade. It's really funny if you know much about them."
I read some of the strips. They reminded me of this passage from C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity."
It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I am sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of - all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to the optic nerve and what it does to my brain - and, of course, you find that what we call 'seeing a table' lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not -and the modern world usually is not - if you want to go on and ask what is really happening - then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple
Very often, however, this silly procedure is adopted by people who are not silly, but who, consciously or unconsciously, want to destroy Christianity. Such people put up a version of Christianity suitable for a child of six and make that the object of their attack. When you try to explain the Christian doctrine as it is really held by an instructed adult, they then complain that you are making their heads turn round and that it is all too complicated and that if there really were a God they are sure He would have made 'religion' simple, because simplicity is so beautiful, etc
You must be on your guard against these people for they will change their ground every minute and only waste your time. Notice, too, their idea of God 'making religion simple'; as if 'religion' were something God invented, and not His statement to us of certain quite unalterable facts about His own nature
Story could be parody, or could be fact and the 'Jesus' film really isn't so similar to The Passion after all. There's no reason to believe a Campus Crusade would have borrowed from the writings of Anne Emmerich, for example.
LOL. You're outta control with these Holy Observer and WWN posts!
I don't think I can watch this film as I can't really handle watching violence of this nature, much less seeing it inflicted on Jesus. Also, I don't like what I'm hearing about the portrayal of Jews. If this film is responsible for anti-Semetic feelings in people than I want no part of it.
the rumors about anti Semitism was started before the film was even finished...and the film did not portray "jews" in a bad light, just the chief priests. Indeed, the real "baddies" were the Roman soldiers. And many of the Jews helped or supported Jesus.
And there has been no increase in anti semitism as a result of the film...one "church" was well publicized for printing an anti semetic sign outside, but the sign was changed in a day...due to local parishoners protesting. There was NO increase in antisemitism after the film...the antisemitism in the US is not found among devout Christians, but on campus among pc liberals...
Yes, it is violent. but seeing tha God suffered allows those of us who suffer to identify with his sufferings...Jesus was not a magic guru who was above us, but a man who knew suffering....As a doctor, I see the film thru the eyes of Mary, and understand that since Christ's suffering has meaning, so also in the light of eternity, that my sufferings and the sufferings I see every day will have an ultimate meaning also....
INTREP - They both used the same Source. Guess what?
The man said "Catholics are good at making things up." He should read the bible and take heed of the warnings to the churches not to beat up on each other. This man obviously isn't suing for the reasons he says he is. He probably hates Catholics.
CCfC's lawyers just came up with a cool way of getting more cash.
--Thou Shall Not Touch This
--Please, Maccabee, smite thee not
>>Even Gibson's not whacked enough to say something like this.<<
:^) No actually, he is, God bless 'im.
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