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Yawn, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It gives new meaning to the expression "dumb as a brick."

Isaiah 16 v. 11 might prove a challenge. Do look at a robust early translation not one of the prissy modern versions.

I think, Marcus, it's "thick as a brick" - you know, a rhyme.

What's wrong with someone doing this? What harm is there? Why does there have to be a snide response to everything?

MCC

I don't think it's the comments above that are snide.





But it's just par for the course taunting so I wouldn't get too bothered about it!

I think it's brilliant. Respectful, yet curiously irreverent at times.

My favorite tableau:

"Why does there have to be a snide response to everything?"

Would you prefer dumb as a mccamleyc. BTW, what the hell is a mccamleyc? I don't think even the editors of the New York Times crossword puzzle could come up with a definition for that combination of letters. Not in any known language. Is is Klingon?

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#5

Oh, that kind of stoned.

It seems to me that Stephen was, verily,

You know, the more I look at that picture, the more I realize that this probably is the closest to what it actually looked like as I imagine it. Da Vinci got it all wrong. This is how it really was. Something like Mickey Mouse.

Oh, right, it's satirical. I thought it was an Emergent Bible, or some attempt to engage the "yoof" of today.

GV

Im afraid they all look like The Beatles to me.

Y'know, they do now that you mention it.

If your point of view is that the bible is a book of fairy tales, shouldn't it be dramatized by animated cartoons instead of live human actors and actresses?

I feel so inspired that I wish to write a dissertation on it.

John

Isn't it a bit weird that I honestly thought that Brendan Powell Smith was in earnest? You can just see an Evangelical church putting this together. Nudity included, cos we're not anti-sex.

GV

I actually thought that as well. I haven't went on to the website, but it is satire then is it?

What exactly is satirical about it anyway?

Graham, Bernard,

I'm not surprised you thought it was 'real', it's exactly the kind of thing someone might put together! In fact every time I think I've come up with some satirical comment or other to make about my brand of Christianity, hey presto, someone's gone and done it for real in an attempt to be relevant or something.

But the links in posted in #5 are a bit of a give away... that said though, they completely miss the point!

I knew I'd seen it somewhere. This is not quite original;



here's some on youtube, there's plenty more;



And the official web site.



I think Davey looks a little like William Crawley :-)

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Haven't read #20 yet Bernie. In answer to your previous question...

It's a very insightful satire Bernard. It uses rude words, and has naked lego people in sexual positions. It's very subversive - really only for the sophisticate. It's so deliciously clever!

Actually, my students are funnier. And more subversive, and insightful. And more creative.

Now if a pre-teen had produced Powell Smith's 'satire' I'd be impressed.

GV

#19

The argument is settled. There is a dog.









dyslexic git

Graham

Insightful, uses rude words, has naked people in sexual positions, very subversive, so deliciously clever!

That's not satire - that's just the Bible! Great thing is though you don't have to be sophisticated to enjoy it or benefit from it.

In case you're wondering, my post that got pulled contained a link to Bobby Conn singing a song about the passover.

Now that is satire!

What do you do, what do you do, what do you do if you're a poor little Jew.

just google Bobby Conn passover. Although it is quite disturbing