A friend sent this - Though I realize that it is not part of what is usually thought of as the Canon, I though it was funny enough to share here:
http://eugenecho.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/facebookpassion.pdf
A friend sent this - Though I realize that it is not part of what is usually thought of as the Canon, I though it was funny enough to share here: http://eugenecho.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/facebookpassion.pdf
Very funny. Only that's not the order Facebook posts usually show up on your wall. It's usually most recent ones at the top (except within each thread). Otherwise, very clever job, whoever did that!
I saw another funny one someone did recently: a Facebook Haggadah (that's the 2010 version; see also the 2009 version, linked at the bottom of that page).
Ok that was funny, both of them. LOL
I'm not being judgmental on you all, but I always cringe when I see anything like this...
Really? The God of the Universe cheapened by a joke?
The great "I AM" the butt of a joke?
It makes my skin crawl...
I'm not dissing those who think that this is humerous..I just never get how this is something that we'd approve of?
Really? The God of the Universe cheapened by a joke? The great "I AM" the butt of a joke? It makes my skin crawl...
Jesus actually had quite a sense of humor, and I'm betting he was able to giggle at times even about himself. God invented laughter and created us as beings able to enjoy puns and parodies. When it gets into crude territory that's where I have a problem with it, but humor that involves God or God's people doesn't necessarily make him the "butt" of the joke or cheapen him. I can understand and respect that it isn't your cup of tea, but I don't think it brings those who chuckled at those posts down to a level of denigrating our Lord. It was telling the passion story in a common idiom of our day -- Facebook status updates -- with a healthy dose of silliness thrown in. OK, maybe the words "whoop-a**" bordered on the crude, but there wasn't anything offensive in the rest of that post, IMHO.
My old pastor wrote a wonderful book called The Humor of Jesus: Sources of Laughter in the Bible.
"Humor" showing Jesus doing and saying things Jesus wouldn't do and say is not humor. Irreverence is irreverence no matter what people try to dress it up as.
Somehow this particular thread is starting to veer into the territory Logos doesn't want on it's site - what I will refer to as theologies that insult theologies discussions.
To Whom It May Concern:
I am afraid I have offended some, though that was not my intention - feel free to lock this thread down.
I apologize for offending people and fanning the flames of the controversy. Alas, it's too late now to go back and edit my original post to change it to "deleted by author" -- but that's what I'd do if I could.
Floyd and Rosie, be assured that I didn't think anyone had crossed the propriety line; I simply thought it better to suggest we watch what we said after Robert and Chris' comments. My thinking - I personally came too close to posting what could have been an inflammatory tongue-in-cheek response. Fortunately, I clicked the back button rather than the post button - an action that has destroyed some of my best posts. [6]
Did you know that Andrew Greeley did a serious study on Catholic humor as it expresses theology in popular terms?
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