English atheists mock Christians

[mr blur]

[frogmarch]

1. Brilliant!

[AlbertCat]

2. That was fun.

They did pick some of the wackiest stuff.

[RussBLib]

3. enjoyed that

Thanks for posting that. I'd never heard of it.

Behold! The magic banana!! The lengths that people will go to to try and justify their silly beliefs!

[rhett o rick]

4. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[LiberalAndProud]

5. Okay. I may have to retire FSM in favor of the King of the Seagulls.

Bibleman. I had no idea. I think that will probably backfire. My four-year-old grandson understood that the Power Rangers are just pretend and got bored of them at the age of five.

Fun stuff. Thanks mr blur.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. There is no way this could even be pitched to run on us tv.

[mr blur]

7. But shouldn't your First Amendment cover that?

It's just a bunch of comedians mocking TV programmes.

(Christian) religion has such a grip on society over there?

[onager]

8. Technically yes, but...

Thanks a lot for posting this, it was hilarious!

As for your question - if you think Gawd moves in mysterious ways, try the American legal system.

Consider what happened to National Lampoon magazine back in the 1970s.

The NatLamp occasionally ran a hilarious feature, "Son O' God Comics." A comic book with a completely incompetent Jesus and supporting characters like Jehovah and Allah who were always wrong-footing the Messiah.

Some outraged Xians in Massachusetts discovered that the state's 1697 criminal law against blasphemy was still on the books. They threatened to use it against the magazine. (BTW, Massachusetts is generally one of the more liberal American states. But it's one of a handful of states, like South Carolina and Maryland, that still have a useful antique blasphemy law hanging around.)

If the case had gone to court, the First Amendment would have undoubtedly trumped the state blasphemy law. But it could have been a long and expensive legal battle, so the magazine caved and agreed to drop Son O' God Comics.

Here are a couple of examples of the comic:

http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/78759789877/son-o-god-comics-national-lampoons-blasphemous