what’s wrong with blasphemy? stewart lee discusses blasphemy and its place in comedy with various political and religious types. and alan moore.
On February 9, 2010, In Jewish News, by admin
what’s wrong with blasphemy? stewart lee discusses blasphemy and its place in comedy with various political and religious types. and alan moore.
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arrrrgh, i just wanna punch them stupid christians
Stewart Lee is a god. Or maybe just a prophet. Amen.
Hang on Lee, you said they are from Liverpool? Are they all from there? You had protests wherever it toured. Just because it is IN Liverpool doesn’t mean they are ALL from Liverpool. I would have liked to have seen it no matter where a protestor was from. You are IN Liverpool but you are not from there, there is a difference.
People seem to enjoy being spoonfed disinformation (not to be mistaken with misinformation), feeling like they have no need to find information for themselves and form their own opinions. I would very much like it if there was someone or thing to blame for that but I’m not sure there is!
The intelligent people in the world will always see past the spin tabloid newspapers put on stories, unfortunately it seems those people are few and far between these days.
Definitely.
Problem is, they’ve got an army of right-wing tabloids on their side, so the Stewart Lees and whatnot are fairly fucked if they speak out against them.
I think what I have learned from my time around muslim people is that they, for the most part, are in terested in furthering their knowledge of other religions, I think they feel it gives them a greater scope of understanding of their own religion. Christians on the other hand seem to, as you said, play the old see no evil hear no evil game, where all other religions may have good ideas but are fundamentaly wrong.
Agree entirely. But the radical element of Islam is much more frightening than the radical element of Christianity.
That said, Muslims are always up for a lively argument (in a civil way, of course) whereas the Christians just clap their hands to their ears and go “lalalalalala.”
“Presumably because it’s not 1508″
LOL
christian’s are the most humourless gits going. most muslims i know, and i know a fair few, have a great sense of humour and wouldnt take the least bit of offense at what is in the end a story.
divs! lol
Nah its better to start witht the christians, then move on to the jews, then the muslims, a short break with the rasta’s then on with punishing the catholics lol
Should have changed the Jesus character to Mohammed. Now THAT would create controversy.
Yeah, though I’m not sure who stocks it :S
Stuart Lee is a wonderful thing of beauty and greatness, intelligent and articulate, but much more importantly he is fucking hilarious. Im not religous so i cant comment on the topic. But if SL says they are divs then ill go along with that
Is this opera available on DVD?
I am not saying I am Jesus or even like Jesus…that’s not for me to say. It’s up to you to make up your own minds as to whether I am a messiah or any other kind of god or demi-god or saint.
The difference I would say would be that that sense of thinking you are “correct” stands up to some level of scrutiny. In which case I think he can be “smug” on this topic. I don’t take my broken leg to a car mechanic and my broken car to the doctors because I’m scared of offending some constructed notion they have of themselves
You’re a company man!
You can prove anything with facts
I think Stewart Lee has got every right to have a pop at the ridiculous religious people who attempted to censor his show. Whether the show is good or not doesn’t matter, nor does how funny he is or how able he is to write philosophical works.
The parallel can be drawn as you suggest, but ultimately because god doesn’t exist, the religious inevitabley end up looking sillier.
Richard Roma from Premier Properties
Al Pacino. Love it!
There is a direct parallel. But the atheists will always have the upper hand because of facts. No matter how smug they are.
someone really needs to knock stewart lee off his high horse. hes an at best slightly above average lowbrow comedian who wrote a goofy “satirical” (in the same way that, say, family guy is “satirical”) opera which wasnt particularly intelligent or original. he is not fucking voltaire.
someone also needs to make more obvious the direct parallel between the smug sense-of-superiority displayed by obnoxious vocal atheists and the smug sense-of-superiority displayed by the strongly religious