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National Lampoon documentary
September 28, 2015 at 6:50 am
I watched that new National Lampoon documentary, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, and guess who shot down that magazine? Yes, it's your unfriendly neighborhood Christians. While Muslims attack satirical magazines with guns and bombs, christian organizations call your sponsors and threaten them with actions against them, like not buying their products, so they feel forced to withdraw.
At that point magazine wasn't selling that great anymore so it was easy for religious nuts (as if there are any other religious people) to nail them down.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 28, 2015 at 5:01 pm
That figures. There's nothing that self-righteous, humorless, bullying twats hate more than satire. And that's why satire (and free speech generally) must be preserved at all costs.
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 29, 2015 at 10:58 am
Quelle surprise.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 29, 2015 at 11:28 am
What exactly was in there that they objected to?
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 29, 2015 at 11:40 am
Anything that's not in the bible?
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 29, 2015 at 11:51 am
And fun. They object to anything that is fun, too.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 29, 2015 at 11:57 am
Same thing, really.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 30, 2015 at 1:25 am
Well NL really made fun of religion all the time, but in the doc they claim it was because they made fun of religious groups. I mean what a loss considering they made fun of Vietnam war in such controversial way like putting mock "Baby book" for Vietnamese baby with entries like "Baby's firs wound" and "Baby's first funeral" I wonder what they would of made of war in Iraq.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: National Lampoon documentary
September 30, 2015 at 8:57 am
Only when they're being dogmatic about their magic story. They're not called "fun dies" for nothing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
