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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:27 PM Aug 2014

I googled American Jesus

looking for a specific picture to drop in one of the Religious privilege doesn't exist on DU threads in response to a post bemoaning someone once posting a pic of Jesus with rockets.

I didn't find the pic I was looking for but this made me buckle over:

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I googled American Jesus (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Aug 2014 OP
Uhm, you owe me a new keyboard! cleanhippie Aug 2014 #1
Holy shit, it's rimjob! EvolveOrConvolve Aug 2014 #2
Ha! Banished to perdition for suggesting a redesign, maybe. onager Aug 2014 #4
You owe me a new monitor and keyboard... Bryce Butler Aug 2014 #3
Did you find the documentary with that title? onager Aug 2014 #5
That made me laugh but I don' know why amuse bouche Aug 2014 #6
That is just completely and utterly wrong. trotsky Aug 2014 #7
He needs to be shown scootering out of a Walmart, duh! AlbertCat Aug 2014 #8
Scooter by Simon of Cyrene AlbertCat Aug 2014 #9
3....2.....1..... AlbertCat Aug 2014 #10

onager

(9,356 posts)
4. Ha! Banished to perdition for suggesting a redesign, maybe.
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:57 PM
Aug 2014

That was the funniest thing I've ever read on FreakRepublic. A few years ago, one of its members offered to do a free redesign of the site. You know, upgrade it from the existing circa-1996 look, add PayPal links for donors, all the good stuff on any modern website.

The damn site EXPLODED in outrage. Nope, we don't want none of that new-fangled Web stuff. Might make us look like one of them durn lib'rul sites. Leave Brit...er, Free Republic alone!1!

The member who suggested the redesign couldn't believe the response. He got so frustrated that he finally signed off by posting: "Ugh. Fire bad, cave good."

onager

(9,356 posts)
5. Did you find the documentary with that title?
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 08:03 PM
Aug 2014

Definitely worth watching if you can find it. Released last year.

From the Spanish director Aram Gerriga. Who apparently came to the US, saw phenomena like televangelists and snake-handlers, and went "WTF?"

That's probably one of the most valuable things about "American Jesus." All the crazy crap we Americans take for granted is seen thru the fresh eyes of someone who didn't grow up here.

Which serves to show just how screwed we really are when it comes to religious privilege...

Link to the IMdB page for it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2723050/

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
8. He needs to be shown scootering out of a Walmart, duh!
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 10:15 PM
Aug 2014

The Golgotha Super=Mart isn't finished yet.

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