I tend to agree although I didn't want to say it 'cause I don't like people thinking I'm jerk... But seriously... I laugh at programmer jokes and American jokes and Brit jokes (ethnicity, although I was born in the US), bisexual jokes and even pagan and Unitarian jokes. The Simpsons aired an episode in which Bart was playing video games with Flanders' kids. Of course, being Flanders the object of the game (Bible Blaster?) was to convert heathens (with some kind of Bible gun apparently). So Bart starts playing and one of the boys says something about having missed one of the heathens, followed by a correction that it wasn't a miss but merely "winged" and turned him into a Unitarian. The obvious inference is that Unitarianism isn't a real or serious religion. I disagree. I also laughed my ass off. It's double-standards that are offensive.
I have noticed that it seems Christians are more willing/apt to devalue their own religious symbolism through humor. You don't see people making beer commercials featuring Buddha with the slogan "even the Buddha can't resist", but a wine commercial featuring Jesus saying "when I made water into wine at Cana, this is what I imagined" would not surprise me. Of course, that may just be a side-effect of Christians having dominated modern mainstream culture. The mere fact that there are more of them here and more of them controlling TV stations, etc. Of course it's a different story in places where Islam is the dominant religion and I think the threat of death is pretty effective in preventing them doing the same. > That's fucking great. > Come on Mike, of you can't laugh at ALL stereotypes, you > shouldn't be > allowed to laugh at any. I think mick jokes are funny as > shit. > That episode in specific was funny as hell. > -- > Tim Heald > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 703-300-3911 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:11 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Scientology wins vs. South Park (for now) > Seems that the show that loves to piss people off went too > far when it > offended the 'religion' of scientology. Tom Cruise > reportedly made threats > to force comedy central to pull the repeat of the episode, > Isaac Hayes left > and the creators have joined forces with the evil Xenu > (ask a scientologist > or wikipedia). Makes me wish I had cable. :) > As an aside, I've always been pissed with their portrayal > of Jews on the > show in general and their Hebrew camp episode > specifically. But what can you > do? Riot? s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:200634 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
