A Blog Post for Jesus
When did adding "Jesus" to any phrase make it automatically risible and ridiculous? It's been coming on for a long time, but gradually, like a glacier. This morning, the glacier hit my house when I linked to Richard Dawkins' review of the pro-Intelligent Design movie Expelled. The howler monkeys* have crashed Dawkins' server in their enthusiasm, but its title is "Lying for Jesus." The "For Jesus" part, we understand, is to elicit a smirk before we dive into his dissection of the movie.**
There are lots of recent examples (Bong Hits for Jesus, Jesus Camp, etc., etc. - just go search for "Jesus" at dailykos). It's entered American culture so forcefully, that I realized this morning that I've heard Christians use the word "Jesus" in an ironic way.
* The name "howler monkeys" was proudly borne by pro-evolutionists on the old origins faq site. It was an apt description of their loud and incessant screeching.
** In his titanic rage and indignation at the mere existence of dissent from philosophical materialism, he picked up a chain saw rather than a scalpel, but this post does not concern his review.
There are lots of recent examples (Bong Hits for Jesus, Jesus Camp, etc., etc. - just go search for "Jesus" at dailykos). It's entered American culture so forcefully, that I realized this morning that I've heard Christians use the word "Jesus" in an ironic way.
* The name "howler monkeys" was proudly borne by pro-evolutionists on the old origins faq site. It was an apt description of their loud and incessant screeching.
** In his titanic rage and indignation at the mere existence of dissent from philosophical materialism, he picked up a chain saw rather than a scalpel, but this post does not concern his review.
Labels: Contempt for Christians, Irony, Jesus, Propagandists for Evolution and Their Rhetorical Tricks
posted by Jeff Burton at
6:28 AM
2 Comments:
"...that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow..."
Maybe people are instinctively afraid of his name, so use mockery to deal with it.
Even Christians avoid Jesus' name at times (not on purpose I'm sure)...we'll often say "the Lord" or "Christ," which are his titles, not his name.
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Angie, At
March 24, 2008 9:15 AM
R.C. Sproul Interviews Ben Stein
http://www.ligonier.org/blog/2008/03/rc-sproul-interviews-ben-stein.html
About six weeks ago, Mr. Ben Stein joined Dr. R.C. Sproul for a delightful and stimulating conversation about the current state of free scientific inquiry in academia. We have posted the video below.
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Boyd, At
March 26, 2008 7:10 AM
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