After tonights South Park episode how many Christians will riot in the streets?

Question

Tonights south park portrayed Jesus being stabbed in the neck by Kyle and bleeding to death. Then Jesus killed a man. The entire episode mocked Christianity and Catholicism specifically. Some of it I have to admit was funny but I was pretty offended. Regardless, it seems Christians will most likely not kill nuns, burn embassies and riot like when Muslims have been offended recently. Or maybe they will. What do you think?

Answer 1

I seriously doubt it. Perhaps Christians should begin tearing down things and making their voice known, I don't know.

I know that South Park is a disgusting program and it should be taken off air. I'm quite sure that South Park would not have made the same portrayal of Muhammad as they did of Christ. The Muslims would have rioted world wide, and those who produce South Park know that. They can pretty much say all they want against Christianity, and know they will get little reprocussion.

I think that Christians nationwide should research who sponsers South Park, and tell those sponsers that they will ban their products forever for promoting such garbage on television. And the stations that broadcast this trash should get the same treatment. Hit them where it hurts them the most, in their wallets.

Answer 2

I just love it when people will laugh at things that don't portray to them and then get all defensive and offended when something they believe in is mocked.

Take for instance chef on the show (forget his real name at this time but you all know who im talking about). he was on the show for years, through the many episodes where they did in fact mock other religions such as Mormons. Did he leave? No, of course not, he stayed, got paid, and continued to do more shows. Until something he believed in was tackled, Scientology. After that he was offended and left.

My point here is basically you have to take the bad with the good. If you sit there and laugh at certain episodes and then get offended and mad at the ones that target yourself, well then that's a prime example of hypocrisy.

Now for the people that is all offended by this entire show, light up a bit. It is just a funny show that doesn't target anyone specifically. Actually I recall a Christmas episode where the children were doing a play on the birth of Jesus. Well the parents of different religions were getting offended and demanded that parts of the play be looked at and changed. Needless to say it was a very wierd and boring play, and all the parents also thought so. That is a very good example of what would happen if we are all offended by different things in life. It would be a very boring world.

Now for everyone else that basically shrugs off offensive material in our lives and laughs even at the jokes directed towards them. Good for you, keep this up and our world may not become as boring as that play did.

Answer 3

Actually, the Catholics are still busy threatening to kill the owner of a Manhatten art gallery and burn down the adjacent hotel over the chocolate Jesus incident. That protest was insane. They're still protesting too, even though the gallery has already said it will not let the artist display the chocolate Jesus.

However, for the most part, in the U.S. you don't really see too much anger in response to TV. Additionally, although South Park is popular, it actually does not reach as large of an audience as Jyllands Posten and its syndications did.

If you take a look at the Davinci Code riots around the world though, you saw violence, vandalism, etc. in the Phillipines, India, and even in Europe. Take a look at what happened in Poso Regency in Indonesia back in 2000 too. Christians attacked Muslims with machetes in response to a newspaper editorial. Thousands of people died. Muslim schoolgirls were raped and then burned alive. Tens of thousands of Muslims had their homes burnt to the ground. The same thing happened, though on a slightly smaller scale, after the execution of three Catholic terrorists in Poso just earlier this year. Over 5,000 Catholics engaged in riots, attacking government buildings and burning down entire neighbourhoods.

A lot of this sort of stuff is regional.

Answer 4

Offended yes, riots and arson, no. It's just somebody's sense of humor and weird thought transformed into a cartoon. It's for amusement, I don't take offense. It's something the creator/cartoonist-author will have to deal with when he meets his Maker! For all we know, Jesus and God could be laughing their heads off watching that episode.

Honestly, how do we know? If Jesus and God were sitting next to me on my living room sofa watching South Park tonight, I'd look at them to see if there were laughing first!

Answer 5

Why is it that Christians, supposedly members of a religion of peace perform acts designed to inflame and insult others? What would Jesus do? Not burn the holy books of others. Anyone supporting the acts of this arrogant, self-important, publicity seeking fool is not Christian. He is an embarrassment to true Christians everywhere. Christians are in no position to criticize others. There has been plenty of murder, mayhem and bloodshed done in the name of Christianity. Spanish Inquisition ring a bell?

Answer 6

In a mysterious twist ... it is the South Park shows like these that returned me to my faith, Catholicism. Without their mocking my religion well, I wouldn't care. My reasoning was if the writers of South Park are writing this, they knew more than I did about my own faith. So, it sent me on a quest for truth. Now that I know the truth, it's stomach belly laughter till I start to snort (blush).

I owe so much of my religious faith to South Park. Thank you for enlightenment. All hail the prophets of SP; they are prophets you know.

Gotta go ... it's on ... OMG --- The Easter Bunny is the same Bunny that 'Y!A's' Avatar has (full mask) ... OMG!!! ... you're so WRONG on the plot ... "All Hail Snow Ball"!!! ... its a bunny luv show silly ... Okay, Okay, it all happened like you said ... My SP faith is but weak and it was momentarily rattled.

Kyle Quote: "You've got to promise that Cartmen will never find out about this" (Giggle)

Answer 7

I think they will do what most assemblies of people in South Park do...mumble, "Rabble, rabble, rabble...." Other than that they should wake up and smell the coffee...lose the delusions and the dogma...use their rational mind and THINK. God, belief in god, and religious dogma in general are all irrational constructs that have no reality and no bearing on the modern world. Everyone should stand up and denounce god the very first chance they get.

Answer 8

o jeez I'll have to get the morning paper to see if any Christians smashed any mosques tonight seeing as they blame everything on Muslims. I should be careful though because last time I said something funny about Christianity some one smashed my cars windshield.

Answer 9

Dude if you truly were offended by the show, then I'm afraid it went right over your head. You missed the point entirely.

Answer 10

I think it has to do more with Western culture than Christians. You'd be hard pressed to find American Jews, Hindus or even American Muslims that would act so barbaric after being "offended".