Kathy Griffin's Jesus remark cut from Emmy showRemember the controversy of the cartoons depicting Muhammad in a mocking way? The Christian fundi freaks insisted that they should be published. It's okay to mock Muhammad but not Jesus?
Comic Kathy Griffin's "offensive" remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be cut from a pre-taped telecast of the show, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday.
Griffin made the provocative comment on Saturday night as she took the stage of the Shrine Auditorium to collect her Emmy for best reality program for her Bravo channel show "My Life on the D-List."
"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus," an exultant Griffin said, holding up her statuette. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."
Asked about her speech backstage a short time later, an unrepentant Griffin added, "I hope I offended some people. I didn't want to win the Emmy for nothing."
The speech drew fire from a leading Roman Catholic group, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which condemned Griffin's remarks as "obscene and blasphemous."
So ya.. making fun of people's religious beliefs is perfectly A-OK. Make fun of my "religion", it's not going to bother me. I hope it becomes a trend and begins to reduce the influence of religion.
Jesus is a myth in any case, so it seems silly to be offended by making fun..
Oh.. and while I'm thinking about it... I watched a documentary called Darwin's Nightmare yesterday.
Through interviews with the Russian and Ukrainian plane crew, local factory owners, guards, prostitutes, fishermen and other villagers, the film discusses the effects of the introduction of the Nile Perch to Lake Victoria, how it has affected the ecosystem and economy of the region. The film also dwells at length on the dichotomy between European aid which is being funneled into Africa on the one hand, and the unending flow of munitions and weapons from European arms dealers on the other. Arms and munitions are often flown in on the same planes which transport the Nile Perch filets to European consumers, feeding the very conflicts which the aid was sent to remedy.It certainly is a sobering film, and it also touches on the effects of AIDS on the local villages. In an interview with a "pastor", the interviewer asks him if he advises men to use condoms. The pastor says that he advises men not to use condoms as they are a "sin". The film juxtaposes that against an AIDS wracked woman on the verge of dying.
The pastor is merely following the official Catholic policy, insisted upon by Pope John Paul.. who ironically is on a fast track to sainthood.
Which is reason #452 why the Catholic church is evil.
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it's not any more blasphemous for her to come out and say that than it is for her to do anything else in her life that's against Christianity. *shrug* i say let her say it. doesn't bother me really, it's very obvious that she doesn't believe in Jesus, she shouldn't be forbidden from saying it on television.
when you say Jesus was a myth, do you mean his actions as per the bible's portrayal, or that the man never existed to begin with?
just curious... you seem much smarter than to believe the latter.
I'm saying that it's impossible to know whether or not Jesus was divine, and it's also impossible to know whether he ever existed at all. Therefore, "belief" is fine for those that choose to, but to base public policy (such as same-sex marriage) on an unprovable is a really bad idea.
However, one can give credibility to certain evidence in order to establish their belief. If you haven't seen this, then you might want to factor it in to your belief system. I think it's entirely credible.. that is, the first half that deals with Christianity.
The bottom line for me is, I'm not a Christian, and I doubt that Christ even existed at all... but I could be wrong on that one.
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