The Chaser and silly Christian comment

Archbishop Peter Jensen has labelled The Chaser’s recent stunt ‘distressing’ and ‘disrespectful’ depicting Christian religious enthusiasts flocking to a public toilet to see an image of Jesus as a stain in a toilet bowl. I admit an initial cringe myself but the humour is directed as those who believe the rather unbiblical phenomenon of apparitions of Christ today. And why not have a laugh at the rather disturbing practice by painting it in the most extremely unbelievable form....toilet stains. Surely we take ourselves too seriously if we can't laugh at the absurdities that evolve within Christian culture....then we'll never question them.

Consider this quote,

It is a universal tendency in the Christian religion, as in many other religions, to give a theological interpretation to institutions which have developed gradually through a period of time for the sake of practical usefulness, and then read that interpretation back into the earliest periods and infancy of these institutions, attaching them to an age when in fact nobody imagined that they had such a meaning.

-Richard Hanson

So have The Chaser gone too far? I don't think so. Cultural Christianity has its predictable responses that show little thought process. It is insuted too quickly and has forgotten how to laugh and continues to isolate itself from society.

The article went on to quote the Rev Fred Nile, who said "the program could have endangered lives if the Muslim figurehead, Mohammed, had been the target". Well....they could have endangered lives if they drank and drove....but they didn't....why suggest something they didn't do and smear them with the suggestion? Manipulative ...hmmmm.