Scientologists ate my baby!
Well, OK, that's not true. But they did steal my chef. Isaac Hayes has left South Park saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."
What an ingenuous dick. The cartoon's original short featured Jesus wrestling Santa, and it's only gotten better/worse. The show has been a never-ending slur of everything ethnic, religious, and cultural. It's also, thankfully for our otherwise washed-up Hayes, been the bouy of his resurgence and has been providing him with paychecks for nine years.
Well, I'm sure his newfound conviction comes from the realization that satire can be hurtful to those targeted, an understanding illuminated maybe by recent revelations like the Danish cartoon fiasco. I'm sure that's it, and that his moral stand has nothing to do with the fact that recently Scientology has come under SP's cross hairs, and that just happens to be Isaac's 'religion' of choice.
As for that 'civil rights activist' bit: Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist. Doing cartoon voiceovers and singing ironically popular songs just makes you another quasi-celebrity hack.
"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."Pardon me while I wipe away a tear.
What an ingenuous dick. The cartoon's original short featured Jesus wrestling Santa, and it's only gotten better/worse. The show has been a never-ending slur of everything ethnic, religious, and cultural. It's also, thankfully for our otherwise washed-up Hayes, been the bouy of his resurgence and has been providing him with paychecks for nine years.
Well, I'm sure his newfound conviction comes from the realization that satire can be hurtful to those targeted, an understanding illuminated maybe by recent revelations like the Danish cartoon fiasco. I'm sure that's it, and that his moral stand has nothing to do with the fact that recently Scientology has come under SP's cross hairs, and that just happens to be Isaac's 'religion' of choice.
As for that 'civil rights activist' bit: Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist. Doing cartoon voiceovers and singing ironically popular songs just makes you another quasi-celebrity hack.
posted by jim at 3/18/2006 09:23:00 PM
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"The cartoon's original short featured Jesus wrestling Santa, and it's only gotten better/worse."
Exactly. So it was ok when it was Christianity, Judaism and Mormonism, but now that it's your own ridiculous mythology, you're going to take the "high ground"? What a hypocritical asshole.
I like the mention of Mormonism. Say what you will about the other big religions, at least they've got a little history and for better or worse cultural weight behind them. But Mormonism and Scientology are so patently absurd - one was brought to us by magic glasses and the angel Moroni, and the other by aliens. Aliens from outer space with special implants... enough said.
You've got a point with the history/cultural weight thing, but are mormonism and scientology really any more insane than any other religion?
Ok so there's this god right, and one day he decides to send his son down to visit the planet he created, only it's not his son, it's really him in disguise!!
supernatural being = alien
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An interesting side note - I noticed while spell checking this comment that MS Word marks chrisianity and mormonism as misspelled when they're not capitalized, but scientology, which it does in fact recognize as a real word, doesn't need to be capitalized. So there you have it, scientology is not a real religion, at least so far as Bill Gates is concerned.
tiswzt - a tool for popping zits.
I can only imagine what the early christians madeup/thought about christ, based on the absurdities that mormons and scientologists have come up with. You've got to consider the possibility that history, the church's own needs to be at least somewhat 'credible,' and the relentless onslaught of non-believers saying, 'they believe WHAT?!' has pared down the more ridiculous things that splinter groups of 500 - 1300 AD came up with.
nnpkn - easy... napkin with a stutter
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