GodTube.com
I should be writing Simon Peter, and I was about to close down the browser and turn off my wireless to get to that when I saw a post over at The Stranger's Blog by Dan Savage that referenced WFMU's blog that, in it's turn, talked about GodTube. Which is a Christian version of YouTube.
Some samples. "Baby's Got Big Bible". Yes, that's a parody of what you think it is:
Apparently, an atheist's worst nightmare is . . . a banana. Who knew?
And then boggle to . . . I kid you not, Christian Clown Training:
Some samples. "Baby's Got Big Bible". Yes, that's a parody of what you think it is:
Apparently, an atheist's worst nightmare is . . . a banana. Who knew?
And then boggle to . . . I kid you not, Christian Clown Training:
Labels: christianity, crap, dan savage, humor, ignorance
7 Comments:
The banana thing's gone all the rounds about a year or so ago. The dipstick already ceded the banana to Hellbound Allee.
I love some of the advice on the clown vid - "1st, call the nursing home" (they don't mention the possibility of giving the old timers a heart attack, mind).
There are actually xtian mimes too.
Oh, the humanity!
Well, I wasn't blogging a year ago, so it didn't find it's way to ME. Adrienne -- uh, that's my wife -- and I found it tres amusant. ;)
The nursing home thing was spooky. I expected to see the Joker at the end. :)
The Christian Clown Training doesn't really surprise me.
In my field of magic we have a whole genre called "Gospel Magic." Yes, that's right. "Gospel Magic."
In much the same way that I use magic to illustrate various points in my stories, so to do these "Gospel Magicians" use magic to show aspects of stories from the Bible. The easiest example is "Turning Water into Wine" which I have seen done using what we refere to as The Milk Pitcher trick. (Makes me chuckle every time I think of it.)
I've also seen a routine where someone has three beads on a string and they pull the center bead out (known to Magicians as "The Grandmothers Necklace") and the story was that the bead on one side was you, the bead on the other was Jesus and the bead in the middle was SIN!! (insert thunder and lightning here.) Remove SIN (crash boom!) and you can be joined with Jesus!
It is nothing more then a repackaging of existing material, which when you think about it, is all that GodTube is as well.
Do you remember the Monty Python skit in which John Cleese is the Sargeant in charge of training his men to defend themselves from someone armed with a Bananer!
Is this guy for real? I imagine that the Bacterium, Birds, Insects, Fruit Bats, Lizards and Primates (to name a few) that fed upon bananas for millions of years before we started importing them to our grocery stores would have something to say about this ludicrous notion.
If you remember the skit, in the end when Cleese finally convinces one of the men to attack him with a Banana he pulls an Indiana Jones move and simply shoots his attacker with a pistol.
Hmmm.
Santiago,
Gospel magic?!
Sometimes, I read something and I go, "Huh, I understand all the words, but when put together like that, they seem to make no sense." I had that with Gospel magic.
But you'd think that a stage magician turning water into wine would . . . not be a very good way to teach about the power of Jesus. "Hey, anyone with the right props and training can turn water into wine, but . . . uh, Jesus did it through a miracle. Even though I just demonstrated to you how such a trick could be done without any divine intervention."
Still . . . Gospel magic. Boggling, yet. ;)
homo escapeons,
Thanks for stopping by!
Er, I think he's for real. But when you believe in the Sky Pixie, it's sorta hard to determine where their rationality begins. Or if it ever begins.
What I find most weird about the whole banana thing is that the intelligent designer of bananas are humans. The modern banana is heavily modified from the wild banana (which doesn't seem to actually exist, anymore). The banana has all those characteristics because humans engaged in selective breeding. ;)
Mmmm. Monty Python. We loves us some Monty Python in this house.
Baby Got Big Bible is possibly the greatest thing the internets have ever given me. Thanks.
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