It never turns out well and everyone involved just ends up feeling embarrassed.
Related: I helped DJ a dance at a Christian high school recently and when we played a heavily edited version of “Super Bass”, it was one of the most floor-filling songs of the night. Maybe there are two kids in whatever youth group the above parody was commissioned for that think this is super clever, but most of the Christian teens I’ve met seem to be a lot savvier about pop culture than a song encouraging kids to stop at hand-holding gives them credit for.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
Why should only the Christians stop remaking songs? There are a LOT of parodies out there. Most are not really well done, but some are pretty clever. Are you annoyed by parodies in general, or only ones done by Christians? Either way, you should probably avoid any video that identifies itself as one or the other (or both, in this case!) as such in the label. And while you are at it, perhaps you should consider how bigoted and intolerant you sound in this post. Surely you aren’t suggesting limiting citizens’ first amendment rights?
The video you offered as an example was done for fun– you DID read the poster’s notes, right?– and is not being marketed as anything other than, “Hey, we did this and people liked it so we are posting it for anyone who wants to watch it.” If you were so offended by this video, Mr. Gibson, why didn’t you just hit the back button?
Alas, another crack (pot) piece from the ever gifted Dan Gibson… what would we do without his ageless writing style and his unbiased attitude? Truthfully Dan, you’re a first class a$$ and a judgmental jerk. It’s really no wonder at all that you work for this publication.
Oh how I love the american secular left (I know its a redundant term).
After reading several anti or demeaning Christian articles in the Weekly, I’ve decided we need an accurate name for such behavior. I mean this type of hatred is only going to grow and grow over the next few decades, so i thought it would be astute for TW to come up with a catchy name for it. You do realize the nazi’s didn’t have a good name for their hatred for the Jews until the term “anti-semitism”” was coined in the late 30’s. Until then they had used the term ” the Jewish problem” not a very catchy phrase as hate speech goes (maybe it sounds cooler in German).
TW you need to be ahead of the progressive curve, decades down the road when the US is securely secular and you write articles on how “these people” need to be “taken care of” because their beliefs are anti-german oops I mean anti-american, you need a good word or a name for your righteous hatred. You might even trademark it….think of the possible licensing agreements…t-shirts, posters, spiral notebooks at the 99 cent store etc..
Oh well, not being a gifted journalist I am at a loss for a term. I guess we’ll just have to keep enjoying you making fun and ridiculing Christians for now without an appropriate phrase. Who knows 50 60 years from now you could be retro and bring back one of the oldie but goodies….”the christian problem” maybe or maybe “the final solution”. And for those of you that think I’ve been exaggerating…….wake up.
This is a free country last I knew.
*Grins* Amazing how people get their panties in such knots over mythical beings. Yes, one of these days the majority of people will hold secular beliefs, hopefully that day will be before some fundies some place get a hold of a WMD. Muslim, Christian, whatever. Some will claim the comparison is unfair, but the followers are all the same, looking for the answers to cosmic questions in fantasy and ascribing it all to some all powerful man in the sky. You’d think after countless pantheons of Gods fallen to myth status at this point in our history, we’d make short work of the garbage that is organized religion.
Where’s the dislike button for this “article”?
TW, Dan Gibson, et al….maybe you can practice the same tolerance, compassion and inclusivity toward others that you demand for yourselves? Just a thought…
What’s funny is that no one seems to realize that I’m actually part of the Christian culture, so it’s not that I’m part of the “secular left”, it’s that I find the general evangelical Christian unwillingness to engage culture personally embarrassing. Believe me, “whocares”, I’m not likely to be part of some imaginary call to exterminate American Christians, since I’d only be condemning myself in the process.
Here’s what’s even more distressing about American Christianity than this video…that somehow a post gentling mocking an aspect of the culture is taken this seriously. Keeping up this sort of mock outrage must get exhausting.
It’s more disappointing than funny, Dan Gibson.
Dan…sorry my over the top comment stung. But you have to understand that many of us christians see the writing on the wall. your mild mocking is the forbearer of the mindset that is displayed by the likes of “bill sinn”. Your “playfulness” in a position of authority gives a green light to ignorant hateful bigots like bill. and yes bill I said ignorant. With recent observations in cosmology there is a very strong argument for a creating entity. It seems that as a last straw non-deist cosmologists are arguing on the side of a non-provable, non-observable multiverse to explain the the exactness of our universe (sounds like a faith based belief system to me). The upside of a multiverse over a “God’ is that nature requires no moral boundries, the downside is the same.
“…unwilling(ness) to engage culture…”? Oh, my! Evangelical Christians are all about “engaging culture”.
“…gentling mocking an aspect of the culture is taken this seriously.” Oh, I get it. It’s just a joke.
Funny, Dan.
If it keeps these obnoxious types from reproducing, even earlier, I’m all for it.
I couldn’t get through it. Stupid song anyway, but this makes it extra stupid.
Dear Christians; please stop…
Period
“If these Americans and those like them ever fully understand just how much of their suffering — and the suffering we (“jews” – the founders of communism) have inflicted on others — is properly laid on the doorsteps of Israel and its advocates in America, they will sweep aside those in politics, the press and the pulpits alike whose lies and disloyalty brought this about and concealed it from them. They may well leave Israel looking like Carthage after the Romans finished with it. It will be Israel’s own great fault.”
– Dr Alan Zabrosky, Jewish former Director of Studies at the US Army War College
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