Kevin's Watch

rusmeister wrote: By comparison, I found the original post (with the bear) to be quite humorous and genuinely non-offensive.

Interesting that you found the joke about God allowing the athiest to be eaten by a bear to be "funny" and "genuinely non-offensive".
But some goof ball comic about Jesus and Spider Man being best friends gets your panties in a bunch,
You want to think about that for a moment?
That means you're either a total hypocrite or maybe, just maybe, if anyone looks hard enough they can be offended by anything.

No, HLT, and if we can refrain from comments about "panties", that would be good. I also apologize - I think my tone was a little (unnecessarily) strong.

It just means that you don't understand what you are laughing at. What is important and sacred, and what is not. The 'bear' one does not touch on the sacred. The nature of Christ and meaning of the Incarnation/Resurrection do. It would be like your father or mother (or other important loved one) sacrificing their life for you in some tragic accident, Titanic or whatever, and then me drawing a cartoon of the events laughing at them. Hopefully that gets across the effect.

A woman went to the post office to buy religious stamps for her Christmas cards.
"What denomination?" asked the postal clerk.
"Oh, good heavens! Has it come to this?" said the woman. "Well, give me 50 Baptist and 50 Catholic ones."

Hah! HLT: That looks like a spoof of one of those naïve Evangelist cartoons, am I right?

Rus wrote:The 'bear' one does not touch on the sacred.

Btw, my atheistic father was eaten by a bear. And he was pretty damned sacred to me!

LOL!

rusmeister wrote:It just means that you don't understand what you are laughing at. What is important and sacred, and what is not. The 'bear' one does not touch on the sacred. The nature of Christ and meaning of the Incarnation/Resurrection do.

I'm offended by the implication that my atheism makes me deserving of a gruesome death. Conversely, I have no problem with the Christ/Spiderman thing, because it's not sacred. It's just two names (images, whatever).

Funny how sanctity and offensiveness aren't absolute, eh? Hmm, it's astonishing no-one figures that out in adolesence.

CovenantJr wrote:

rusmeister wrote:It just means that you don't understand what you are laughing at. What is important and sacred, and what is not. The 'bear' one does not touch on the sacred. The nature of Christ and meaning of the Incarnation/Resurrection do.

I'm offended by the implication that my atheism makes me deserving of a gruesome death. Conversely, I have no problem with the Christ/Spiderman thing, because it's not sacred. It's just two names (images, whatever).

Funny how sanctity and offensiveness aren't absolute, eh? Hmm, it's astonishing no-one figures that out in adolesence.

I agree. You are right to be offended at that implication, which I never made, and neither do the oldest forms of Christianity (including Orthodoxy and Catholicism, for example).

The key point is that you don't understand what you are laughing at.
Christ said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

I understand what I'm laughing at. I just don't place the same importance on it that you do.

The funniest parts of said cartoon have been overlooked... the sky blue eyes and dandelion yellow hair have their own meaning... and Spidey saying , good morning,Sunshine means even more. Sacred is indeed in the mind of the beholder.

The "cure" line at the end cracks me up.

A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt."

His son asked, "What happened to the flea?"

I LOVE puns!!!

StevieG wrote:A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt."

His son asked, "What happened to the flea?"

When I was a pre-teen, oh about 12 or so, someone called our house and I answered. The voice said:

"Do you have Jesus in your home?"

To which I immediately replied:

"Well, yes. But He's out back walking on the pool, can I have Him call you back later?"

The person hung up.

What most people dont know is that Mary and Joseph were having some marital problems that needed to be worked out before Jesus was born. The reason I know that is because in all the nativity stories Mary rides Joseph's ass all the way to Bethlehem.

SoulBiter wrote:What most people dont know is that Mary and Joseph were having some marital problems that needed to be worked out before Jesus was born. The reason I know that is because in all the nativity stories Mary rides Joseph's ass all the way to Bethlehem.