Saturday, May 17, 2008

[89] The Funniest Thing I've Read In A While

Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:37pm

At a Christian retail show Radosh attends, there are rip-off trinkets of every kind—a Christian version of My Little Pony and the mood ring and the boardwalk T-shirt ("Friends don't let friends go to hell"). There is Christian Harlequin and Christian chick lit and Bibleman, hero of spiritual warfare. There are Christian raves and Christian rappers and Christian techno, which is somehow more Christian even though there are no words. There are Christian comedians who put on a Christian version of Punk'd, called Prank 3:16. There are Christian sex-advice sites where you can read the biblical case for a strap-on dildo or bondage (liberation through submission). There's a Christian planetarium, telling you the true age of the universe, and my personal favorite—Christian professional wrestling, where, by the last round, "Outlaw" Todd Zane sees the beauty of salvation.


Excerpt from "Pop Goes Christianity" by Slate
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Billy Bowman (Bloomington, IN) wroteat 11:38am on May 18th, 2008
I find the organizers and participants of such things to be a harm to themselves and others by their stupidity, and feel they should all be killed, mercilessly, in whatever way one might deem fit.
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Cara Zimmerman (Chicago, IL) wroteat 6:30pm on May 20th, 2008
yeah i hate the fact that christians always have to have their own seperate versions of things. i was actually thinking about that before. like, we have christian tv, christian music, christian books, christian clothes, and christian everything else you can think of. why is that? it annoys the crap out of me and makes me mad.
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Michele Elizabeth Zerbe wroteat 12:03am on May 21st, 2008
i would have wrote exactly what cara wrote. i dont get it. its like theyre splitting up humans into different species.