…so would it suprise you that I’m less than sympathetic with the Catholic League being upset about a comedy show making fun of the Eucharist? Is it just me or do they seem much more upset that Catholics are being made fun of than they are that the Eucharist is being blasphemed?
With all due respect Mr Donahue, all things considered, we don’t get to whine about comedy picking on us okay? We just don’t. When we’ve cleaned up our act…maybe…but not yet.
Via Malkin, whom I’ll leave alone from now on…she just can’t seem to help herself.
Well do you really expect people to understand what comedy is, when they are so delusional that they think cartoons are gay recruiting grounds…
Comment by Downtown Lad — 20050228 @ 0020
Now we get to watch the ratings of this show - a show I’d never even heard of - go up and up and up…
Same thing with Million Dollar Baby. I haven’t been to a theater since July, but when I heard Rush was having coniptions about that movie I thought I’d better go see it.
Comment by tom — 20050228 @ 0049
Timmer, my good friend, please go to my blog, which is http://patriotflyer.blogspot.com, and you will find an explanation that may help you. And please believe that you most certainly are not destined for hell. God really does love you, just as He loves each and every one of us!
You’re in our prayersw, God bless…..
Comment by Joe Comer — 20050228 @ 0343
Blasphemy and comedy go hand-in-hand.
Comment by Kevin L. Connors — 20050228 @ 0524
Brother Joe,
God and I get along just fine, it’s religion that tends to set off my TMJ. Thanks for the prayers though…can never have enough of those.
Blessings back atcha.
Comment by Timmer — 20050228 @ 0630
A tiny, well-intentioned comment: your post conflates the Roman Catholic Church (a human institution, albeit believe to be founded and supported with divine aid) with God. If all the writers of “Committed” had done was to poke fun at the institutional Church, I would agree with you. There has always been room for irreverence in pointing out the failings of the Church. (It would be nice if somebody would occasionally point out the things the Church gets right. There are a lot of those.) Depicting the desacralizing of the Eucharist, a consecrated communion wafer, is more than a step too far.
Comment by cehwiedel — 20050228 @ 0759
Michelle quoted someone as saying: “Catholics have for a long time been the easy target in the media, the only group in society that can still be mocked and jeered at without being labeled politically incorrect for doing so”
That person is incorrect. We mock & jeer at the French, and aren’t labelled politically incorrect for doing so. And the same is true (on television/movies) of fundamentalist Christians (and possibly Christians in general, but I could be hyper-sensitive on that issue).
Comment by A Proud Veteran — 20050228 @ 0940
I’ve found the show “Committed” since it first came on. I’ve found it hilarious. I watched this episode and varied between laughter and discomfort… It was very edgy.
And I feel entitled to make fun of Catholicism not because I am one, but because I went to a Catholic College for a number of years. And yes, I have the scars to prove it.
And I must have been living in a cave.. Michelle Malkin is hot!
Comment by obershyster — 20050228 @ 1651
well being the only lutheran kid in an all girls catholic private school(down boys), I initionally felt very uncomfortable at the few Masses they had, and only because they did’nt have any bad wine to go with the host.
But I got over it and figured getting Holy Communion twice a week wasn’t gonna kill anyone….Let me refrase that, I don’t think God was going to hold it against me.
Comment by cpl blondie — 20050301 @ 1926